One Week of Van Life in the Eastern Sierra

Day 1: A crazy rainbow after a mountain storm breaks

It’s not every day you get to watch a storm break over the mountains, a full rainbow, and an epic sunset. I mean, starting the day in Bishop, CA I awoke to rain. At first, I thought the day was going to be a bust, because I didn’t get to climb, but instead it was quite the opposite. I mean, yeah, I didn’t climb, but whatever.

I ran around chasing rainbows with my camera and favorite @tamronusa lenses. I captured a few epic timelapses of the storm breaking, and eventually snapped a few sunset shots in the Alabama hills of Mount Whitney and Lone Pine. What a blessing today turned out to be! Well, I hope you enjoy day three of this vlog. If you like what you see, give me a like or comment. Heck, if you wanna be totally awesome, give this a share on your story and tag me.

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In this episode: Storm breaking Trail run Bishop, CA Whitney Portal Drone footage Sunset photos Driving Breakfast @daltonjohnsonmedia

Day 2: How to make the BEST pancakes in a van!

Pancakes!!!

Quite honestly, today was a day of bopping around and making the most of it. This morning was a slow one focused on journaling, business strategy, and photo ideas. From there I finished a blog, drank coffee, stretched, and MADE PANCAKES! I actually went into a deep dive of how to make pancakes my favorite way.

I met up with @andrew__muse and his adorable pup @kickerdogmuse Andrew drove to the Whitney portal from San Diego with a few packages for me from @tamronusa @kleankanteen and @timbersurfco so now we are set to head to Baja!

As the day progressed, I chased those two around in search of photos and epic landscapes. Pretty sure we nailed it. More for you all to watch and see here in the coming days!

Anyways, I hope you have a wonderful evening!

Sleep well and keep being awesome 🤙🤙

day 3: The start to the funniest video I have made to date

Why do we take ourselves so dang serious?! Well, today, I decided to stop! After a sunrise shoot with capitalizing on the alpine glow, @andrew__muse allowed me to suit up and put some creative ideas into practice.

While I still need to edit the video and put out for you all. As well as finish up the shooting, there are still a couple of ideas in the trunk that need to be pulled out. I am already excited for how outlandish this thing is. My guess, I find this funnier than you, but, hey, who is comparing?!

Anyways, we wrapped the rest of the day up with a few fun shoots, took the dirt bike for a ride and did some donuts, and then had a very peaceful and PG photoshoot in a tent.

All in all, today was fun. Lots of content was made, and we just had a great time doing it! I hope you had a fun day 🤙

Shout out to @timbersurfco for getting a board to me quickly before heading to Baja!

day 4: The MOST creative photo portrait session I have had!

Creativity for creativities sake! That was the mantra for todays.

At 5:20 am I awoke and started the day off with a photoshoot in a classic Alabama Hills locations with @andrew__muse

Once back at camp @mindbodywithleah and I put together a photo idea. Brainstorming an idea to try to balance the masculine and feminine.

Around 2:00pm we headed off on a hike to a really sweet location in the mountains that has a bit of cool climbing history to shoot the idea.

All in all, this was a blast to shoot!

Note, while I was shooting stills, Andrew was shooting video. I think he might be making a little cut from this outing as well!

Today is day 6 of my 7 day challenge. If you all have been liking these videos, let me know! Also, if you would like these to continue on, you should let me know as well!

day 5: I did it! One week of daily VLOGS

Well, it is day seven and it looks like I succeeded here! Very stoked to have given this a try and shared with you all along the way.

A fun week and honestly, these little pieces have been very fun to create! On top of that,the daily reflection has made this quite introspective. Life can definitely be fun if you look at the little details.

Heck, getting groceries today was fun and rewarding, especially because I knew I had nothing left to eat but a can of olives 😂

Anyways, I am totally rambling. However, I am thankful for you all! Hope you have had a great week 🤙

day 6: If money was not a thing, what would you be doing everyday?

If money was not a thing, what would you be doing everyday?

As life on the road has become my norm, I fill my days with fun, work, and curiosity. Through these three lenses I make my way through the day, typically finding something amazing I wouldn’t otherwise expect.

Todays gift was @mindbodywithleah taking the time to help me work out some chronic back pain I have had for the past few years. Turns out, my breathing, belly breathing, will be the driving habit to correct the pain.

Learning is cool!


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