On Day Five of our road trip, we drove from Phoenix, Arizona with a smoking car (a torn CB Axle Boot) to San Diego, California, my childhood home. I made sure to capture our I-8 Arizona to San Diego Road Trip through the eyes of my trusty iPhone 4 and my Hipstamatic Camera App. So all the photos here are Hipstamatic iPhoneography.
Hipstamatic Road Trip Photos: Arizona to So Cal
On one of our stops, I almost came to tears to see my first view of Palm Trees in two and a half years. I almost came to tears again when I realized that this would be Max-the-Bear’s first time ever, seeing palm trees. I made sure to commemorate the moment.
A few hours later, tears threatened to fall from my eyes when we crossed the Arizona/California Border and there was no “Welcome to California” sign or Welcome Center to take a photo next to…However, they decided to recede back into their ducts when I saw the many signs telling me of the quickly dwindling miles between me and my beloved hometown of almost twenty years. Then I began to rejoice when I saw the foothills and mountains that are the gateway to San Diego county after the dry, stinky Imperial Valley. My heart beat faster and threatened to soar right out of my ribcage when I saw tall windmills waving hello at me from the mountain top wind farms of eastern San Diego County.
“Hello, Miss Mae, welcome back home!” they said as they waved quickly in the brisk early afternoon air.
It’s been good to be back in my city after so long. As you can probably imagine from my few days of not posting anything (and thereby suffering dramatic traffic loss), I’m having the time of my life, amidst the stress of the moving logistics, trying to set up our new life over in Hawaii and other things.
Here are my favorite shots from the trip that day.
Sand Dunes in California!
San Diego East County Wind Farm with cotton candy skies
San Diego East County Wind Farm
See the gallery below! Each thumbnail is a link to the larger photo.
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- My Mountains
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- Arizona Native American Center
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- mountain shaped like a cake shaped like a castle. Sarah would’ve loved it.
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- More tossed rocks pile type mountains
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- Mountain that looks like piles of tossed stones
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- The varied Southern California Desert geography and geology…
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- Homeward Bound.
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- Rubber Tramp city (i.e., RV City)
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- Supply Train
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- Seriously dodgy….
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- Dodgy motel
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- Dunes #2
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- Sand Dunes in California!
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- “Bird Mountain” looked like a penis head from the other side
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- Dramatic Skies #2
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- Dramatic Skies
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- “Bird” Mountain
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- Mountain that looked like it was giving us The Bird (middle finger)
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- Volcano #2
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- Extinct volcano cone
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- 2 Mile long beef factory farm (I hate these)
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- Crops #2
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- Green Crops in California’s desert
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- San Diego county line crossed. I tweeted immediately afterward. You know this.
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- San Diego County mountains over the bluish distant Imperial Valley
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- San Diego East County Wind Farm with cotton candy skies
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- San Diego East County Wind Farm
Be sure to check out my Travel blog posts from this trip and my travel street style articles, too for documentation of all my looks from these travel diaries!
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California’s landscape is very distinct. =) Welcome home, M. I’m currently a visitor in your “home.” It’s been good to me, but alas, I really, really can’t wait to go back to New York! =D Hope all’s been well.
Lovely photos!
Just posted an outfit inspired by you on my blog — thanks for the inspiration.