May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds…
- Edward Abbey.
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It’s now four years since I moved to California after about 9 years in the various cities of northeast US. Before my marriage, my future wife and I were working in NYC and San Jose respectively, and were forced to make a choice on where to settle down after the upcoming nuptials. My wife absolutely refused to do the long-distance relationship even for a minute after the wedding so we mutually agreed to look for jobs in each other’s cities and to move to a city where both had good offers. Thankfully fate interfered and the consulting project that I was a part of came to an abrupt end a week before my wedding, my wife had her doubts but I took it as an absolute sign and packed everything I owned into my trusty little Mazda, canceled my lease and drove cross country to the wonderful state of California.
I’d be lying if I claim that I was sure it would turn out ok, I simply wasn’t, as with most people I never liked change and was absolutely scared shitless. But it has all worked out, in the end, we both ended up moving to West Hollywood and having pretty decent jobs with a wonderful new set of friends and tons of national and state parks to keep us entertained. For some reason, all these thoughts went through my mind when I was working on this shot at night and I think I found the perfect quote to go with the image of this amazing location.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds…
- Edward Abbey.
| facebook | 500px | ferpectshotz |
It’s now four years since I moved to California after about 9 years in the various cities of northeast US. Before my marriage, my future wife and I were working in NYC and San Jose respectively, and were forced to make a choice on where to settle down after the upcoming nuptials. My wife absolutely refused to do the long-distance relationship even for a minute after the wedding so we mutually agreed to look for jobs in each other’s cities and to move to a city where both had good offers. Thankfully fate interfered and the consulting project that I was a part of came to an abrupt end a week before my wedding, my wife had her doubts but I took it as an absolute sign and packed everything I owned into my trusty little Mazda, canceled my lease and drove cross country to the wonderful state of California.
I’d be lying if I claim that I was sure it would turn out ok, I simply wasn’t, as with most people I never liked change and was absolutely scared shitless. But it has all worked out, in the end, we both ended up moving to West Hollywood and having pretty decent jobs with a wonderful new set of friends and tons of national and state parks to keep us entertained. For some reason, all these thoughts went through my mind when I was working on this shot at night and I think I found the perfect quote to go with the image of this amazing location.