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I thought I would do a monthly round up of my favorite things and what I did, kind of my way of tracking my interests and a summation of my month essentially. This month I... - Celebrated 4th of July with my family. - Saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Matt and I talked about this one a lot after we saw it. It doesn't feel like your typical Tarantino movie, it is a lot more leisurely in it's pacing. So if you haven't seen it, go in with expectations geared towards more a pace that builds atmosphere and focuses on a broader range of story. - Listened to lots of comedy radio on Pandora My favorites are Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Brian Regan, and Demetri Martin. - Read Picnic at Hanging Rock I'm a huge fan of the 1975 film, and summer seemed like the perfect time to delve into the book. The movie turned out to be pretty faithful to the book, which is always a giant check mark in the positive column for me. - Sold my...

Day 4 A little more leisurely start to the day as we headed to the Cabazon Dinosaurs, maybe you know them from Peewee's Big Adventure (when in Hollywood, visit fun movie locations). We were pretty excited to climb up into the t-rex and were pleasantly surprised to find most of the place was deserted right at opening time. We went in and wandered in a garden of dinosaur sculptures and even got to dig in a sand pit area. If you found enough "fossils" and turned them in at the gift shop you got to pick out a little toy. So, being the children we are, we of course dug up fossils and got our toy. We found out we could also go into the Apatosaurus which was a bit of a museum and had history of the dinosaurs which was pretty cool too. After about an hour at the dinosaurs we continued on to Los Angeles, having plenty of time to hit a couple more spots before checking into our Airbnb. The Museum of Death was a spot we were both stoke...

Days 1 & 2 To start things off, I wanted to back up a bit, to May 2018 when my sister and I went on an amazing 2 week trip from Missouri to California, hitting some major highlights along the way, but the main goal being to spend some time in Los Angeles and drive 1 highway. First we had to cross Kansas, our goal was to camp in Colorado that evening. We arrived in Colorado near dusk and at the first good sight of mountains we stopped to snap a few pictures before the sun was gone. We stopped again soon after because our chip bags we had packed had swollen with the pressure change and had popped open! It was at this stop I also found a couple of deer vertebrate and they rode home the rest of the way in the glove box. Near Alamosa, Colorado As often as possible, we wanted to sleep in my mountaineer to save a bit of money. (I say "want" but not everyone wanted to sleep in the car that much. Ahem. Sammi.)  I whipped up some window coverings for priv...