Pointedly Nomadic: Two years later

8/31/18

Sac City babyyyy

So it's been two years since Charlotte and I left South Bound Brook, New Jersey, traveled around the country for like seven months, and got an apartment in Sacramento, California. We've been here for like a year and a half now, as I tell many of my Lyft passengers, and there's obviously still a lot to see and do. It's a great area, like the center of a wheel -- a variety of landscapes available within a few hours' drive.

Tahoe the lake place and sand

also Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is where we were recently.

One of the three rivers in Sacramento

a little overview, near the airport.

So many beautiful places within half an hour of us.

Succulents grow wild here so I snagged a couple.

Serious Charlotte

Mossy rocks waterfall pee yay

Fantastic music festival with just amazing food. Chunks of crab meat on garlic fries? Fuck yes.


Sacramento is the city of trees after all!

Shit also just burns here...


Didn't think I'd ever see this just driving around.

Smoke so thick we slowed down to like 20 mph.

It's gonna take a fuckin while to get used to the fact that California just kinda burns for months yearly. Whatever, my multitude of plants will be fine so long as I water them and occasionally brush the ash off of them...

We've been doing pretty well, starting school and working and stuff. Been meeting really nice people like everywhere, which seems to just be happening since we met Henry. It's like he taught us to see people as, you know, other people, part of your world, friendly by default or whatever. So maybe we're also way more open and friendly, but also maybe new jersey really just sucked that much that people weren't happy in general. I mean almost all of the Lyft riders I've had that were from the east coast agreed that people were friendlier here.