Updated the vehicle and hit the road around 5pm.

I drew the trail, he wrote the words and together we have the coolest looking car on the road!

Road tripping is made better with dash decor!

The beauty of Wyoming

Open road calls our names

Surprise side quest to meet this precious nugget!

Wartburg College sure knows how to roll out the red carpet.

He is now a Knight In-Law. Only thing to do now is to meet the track fam!

Joseph shucked corn for the first time! He looked mighty fine doing it.

Nothing better than an Iowa cornfield!

World's fair in STL

Thank God for friends who host you on your cross country trip! The Steggal home was a God send as we got a great night of rest!

Late night dinner and talks with one of Mia's sisters.

A wild Joseph has been seen!

Breakfast with the McCall's was the perfect send off from Tennessee. Disneyland here we come!

Look! A chicken!!! Why!!!?!? The world may never know!

We made it to Disneyland!

Finally arrived in the city of jazz and Blues! 🎺🎷

So it's actually a church, and in front of it you can have your fortune told. 🔮. We obviously steered clear of their antics!

Got to see a live band in the quarter! They were really good too! It just so happened that they played in front of one of the most popular buildings as well!

Thanks to Pastor Linda's wise advice, we were able to avoid a street hustler! He claimed to have known where he got his shoes!

We found Disney in LA! Was Walt from New Orleans?

Louis Armstrong Park was blooming in an algae kind of way.

Late night photos to cap out a beautiful night out on the town. We even got late night breakfast at Pattie May's!

We had to go on a swamp tour, and it turned out Joseph is a regular old crocodile Dundee! Mia had to give him one last kiss before he got his hand bitten off like Chubbs from Happy Gilmore.

"Babe! It's a Tiana flower!!!!" ~Mia Anderson~ (Tiana's bayou adventure was closed at Disneyland. Louisiana was a great alternative 💛)

"Tha's a 12ft swamp puppy" ~Joseph Anderson~ (He may or may not developed a southern accent at this point)

Swamp tours and late nights cause tired newlyweds so we had to find some local coffee! Great experience, terrible taste! 😅 California has spoiled us with great coffee.

Better luck next time Gator

All trollies lead to Joseph, and Mrs. Anderson is 100% okay with that!

What a freaking hunk! 🤤😍

Joseph fixed our window decor and prepared us for our travel back to California.

The welcome signs are bigger in Texas!

The real castle rock! This photo does not show it's magnitude!

Made it to New Mexico and Mia begged to sleep at a rest stop so they could enjoy NM together. She knew it would be beautiful from the encouragement of an old person from years ago.

New Mexico is literally the most beautiful desert in America! So worth the drive!

I've spotted a wild ThornBerry! He did not get the reference, but I'm happy to have my own Nigel to adventure through the world with.

This was outside of the coolest market in New Mexico!

Through this trip we learned so much about becoming one. There is no greater teacher than time and proximity.

She is learning to be his inspiration.

He is learning to be her fortress.

The final stop on our road trip was rocky and eye opening! God wasted nothing, and created magic by his pure magisty.