09/30/2026
Summer 2026 on film đź’›
After getting married in late 2024, we decided to take a *marriage gap year* — for us, that meant selling most of our possessions and buying a 1976 airstream.
We traveled around the continental US and Canada in the good weather and flew around the world in the winter. Our cats Rumi and John Wayne came along for the parts that were drivable.
We blew out a tire on a dirt road in Wyoming on day one. Swam in glacial rivers so cold they reset your entire brain. Ate blueberries that actually tasted like blueberries. Slept in some very weird places. Learned how enormous Montana is. Answered “Is that an Airstream?” approximately one million times.
There were breakdowns and long hot days and plenty of moments where we had absolutely, literally, positively no idea what we were doing.
And somewhere along the way, we learned the thing that I will take away most from this time on the road: everything would be fine. And if it wouldn’t be fine, it would be okay.
The world felt impossibly big this year, and also much smaller than I ever thought. I’m so grateful we got to see so much of it.
During hundreds of hours driving, we talked endlessly about where we’d land when this was over. Back to the Bay Area, with our friends and community? The Hudson Valley, close to family? New Mexico, whose chile and chill completely stole our hearts?
New York City was on absolutely nobody’s bingo card.
And yet, after 18 months on the road, we’re headed to Manhattan. Very excited for this chapter and where the road will take us next.
Beautiful film scans by Film Lab in NYC Est. 1999 🫶
