I love going through all these pictures. Such good memories.

The idea of the holiday road trip to the northwest first popped into our heads a little after Thanksgiving. Basically, it was a “why not” type of thing. Driving is definitely slower than flying, but we decided that it would be an adventure. If we did it, we probably wouldn’t look back and think it was awful to spend a couple weeks together exploring.

So a week or so before Christmas, we jumped in the car, stopped at the store for some snacks, and began our journey. We had the basic route map, and some goal stops along the way, but we mostly just went day by day, just the two of us.

West Texas is mostly flat. There was a lot of this on our first driving day.

This bakery is apparently the “thumbprint cookie capital of the world.” I would raise them my house at Christmastime.

There are some pretty epic sunsets out there though. Gotta give it that.

We spent the night with the guy’s family in a cabin in New Mexico, and woke up to snow!

Talk about a cozy little cabin. Full of pups pretending to be people.

Onward through New Mexico and Arizona. Hashtag sky

Its like all those pictures of Arizona you see of the striped mountains are true.

This picture looks incredibly moody. No filter. I love it.

I was in charge of taking pictures of scenery whilst in the car, in case the driver missed something epic.

So close to the Grand Canyon, but we would have had to wait another day to see it. Next time we are coming for you, canyon.

And another gorgeous sunset. Next stop, California!