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Our Summer 2018 Vlog

It is official, the summer season is coming to a close and there are indications of change around ever turn.  Before I embrace autumn in full force, I want to share one last look back at the last few months of my life in our summer 2018 vlog.  Those of you who have been around for a while know that this summer brought with it some massive life changes.  In June, my husband and I packed up our two dogs and road tripped across the country from Los Angeles to Kansas City to our new awaiting home.  I had only visited Kansas City once prior to our move, so this summer has largely been spent exploring our new hometown.

In addition to checking out all that beautiful Kansas City has to offer, and my goodness is it ever a beautiful city, my husband and I also squeezed in A TON of once in a lifetime concert experiences.  We had the opportunity to see several acts that had been on our bucket list for years (Dispatch, I’m looking at you!) and managed to record bits of pieces of them all to share with you.  So sit back and get ready to take in the best of what Kansas City had to offer in the summer of 2018!

If you missed them the first time around, be sure to catch up on our New Orleans, London, Venice, Paris, and our cross country road trip vlogs!

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Our Cross Country Road Trip Vlog

I am beyond excited to share today’s post with you because it is one that is very special to me.  Today’s cross country road trip vlog is perhaps my favorite vlog to date that my husband and I have worked on together.  Unlike our prior travel vlogs where we can be seen running around on vacation (catch up on New Orleans, London, Venice, and Paris), this one shows the two of us and our adorable pups embarking on one of the biggest journeys of our lives as we pack up our life in Los Angeles and drive cross country to Kansas City, Missouri to our new awaiting home.

This cross country road trip ended up being the journey of a lifetime.  Not only was it a bonding experience for all four of us, it also exposed us to some of the most incredible examples of natural beauty that the United States has to offer.  The two of us have spent so much time overseas, in many ways we neglected the beauty and gifts right outside our front door.  Now that we are settling into our life in Kansas City, we are already anxious to get back on the road and explore this new region that we call home.  I hope you all enjoy our cross country road trip vlog!

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Our Coachella 2018 Vlog

In the days and weeks leading up to Coachella, I made no secret about the fact that I was positively bursting with excitement over the prospect of returning to my favorite music festival.  I listened to my Coachella playlists on repeat; I planned my looks for each day of the festival prior to ever leaving Los Angeles; I had even mapped a good portion of how I wanted this Coachella 2018 vlog to look in advance.  I was PREPARED!  What is that saying about the best laid plans?  Oh yes, they will go awry and, friends, awry they went.

I ultimately ended up attending 35% of the music festival before my right hip decided it had enough and gave out.  This happened shortly over an hour before Beyoncé took the stage on the second night of the festival.  You know, Beyoncé, one of the acts I was most looking forward to seeing!  In addition to dealing with a great deal of pain I was, understandably, disappointed on a massive scale.  You see, not only had I desperately wanted to see Beyoncé’s epic performance live I had, more than anything, wanted to spend the three-day festival having incredible experiences with some of my closest friends prior to our upcoming move out of state.

I was CRUSHED.  If I am being completely honest, I genuinely considered not releasing this vlog because I thought it would be too painful to relive the memories and try to fill in the gaps that I missed.  But, as my husband and I began sifting through footage, an incredible thing happened.  Those very friends I was so disappointed to not spend time with began sending their Coachella footage, and lots of it.  I got Beyoncé’s performance guys, and I got ALL of it!  Following Beyoncé, Chromeo was sent to us, then Odesza, then Eminem and, little by little, this vlog began to take shape.  Our Coachella 2018 vlog may not have ended up quite as planned but, with a little help from my friends, it turned out to be even more meaningful than anticipated.

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Our New Orleans Travel Vlog

I have been waiting for this day for weeks…the time has finally come to share our New Orleans travel vlog!  We traveled to New Orleans in January of this year to celebrate my birthday.  It was my first trip to NOLA and, though my husband had visited previously, the trip we experienced together was quite a bit different from his previous bachelor party excursions to the Crescent City, as you’ll see in our vlog.

Even more than in our prior vlogs,  I wanted this one to serve as a love letter to New Orleans.  We had such a special time and it is my hope that some of the magic we experienced translates in this vlog.  At the very least, I hope that by the time you are through viewing it, you will consider adding New Orleans to your bucket list because it is a city that truly deserves a visit.

A brief note: the vlog is not viewable in a handful of European countries due to a change in copyright policy right as we completed editing.  We shot this New Orleans travel vlog with the song we ultimately used in mind and were not ready to let go of it, copyright issues and all.  Our sincere apologies for those of you who can’t view it!

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