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☂️💃🏻🕺🏻☂️ • Sometimes you just need to shut down Magazine Street and second line with your favorite people and the locals • We have been so blown away by our wedding day! All the dancing, shutting down streets in NOLA to drink sparkling wine and dance in our second line, crowd surfing, singing Whitney Houston and Ultralight beams, meeting new friends and family, gathering our friends together who have moved across the country and the world, and so much more. Our wedding was incredible because of our friends and family. Seeing y’all dancing and laughing and visiting with each other and crying tears of joy brought us so much joy! We love our people, and we’re so glad that this wedding was just a taste of the better wedding that is coming, where we will shut down every street in a better city, and we’ll second line together forever and ever.
We’re good together 🙂 • 📷: @jenmenardphoto
Let’s be adventure buddies 🏔 • Thanks to @jenmenardphoto for the incredible photos!
Golden State 🐻
I’ve been pretty burnt out on social media. Honestly, most of the time I look on Instagram, I feel exhausted by it. I’m not really sure how to change that feeling, but I like how @jodyjohnston is working through similar feelings. Just feeling free to post about whatever, even if it’s little random moments, is a really helpful way of re-engaging with instagram. Anyway, here’s a random moment I captured out of the car in Kathmandu, Nepal. Im kind of surprised I never posted it!
Missing @claireelyse a lot on this trip. Excited to plan all our future adventures together 😊
Turns out the water is pretty rough under the Golden Gate Bridge, but the view is pretty special. Now we wait for sunset.
Spending the next week in San Francisco 😎
My forever adventure buddy. We make a good team! I’m so excited to marry you, and have a home with you, and to love the people in our community together! 📷&📷 • Also, tomorrow is exactly 1 year since Claire and I started dating! What an amazing year!
Yesterday morning we sailed around the southern point of the Mull of Kintyre. There were a few hours where the fog was so thick we couldn’t see anything further than a hundred feet in front of us. Every once in a while, the fog would part enough for us to see the beautiful landscape.
Just taking in the extra long golden hours.
Spent the last couple of days in Campbeltown. We went to the Springbank distillery today; they still make whisky almost the exact way they did back in 1823! • Sailing isn’t just as simple as setting out; you have to take a lot of variables into account. Things like the tide, currents, wind speed and direction, water depth and hazards, etc. So before you can set out, you have to make a plan. Our plan for tomorrow requires us to leave Campbeltown at 5:30am so that we can ride a current around the Mull of Kintyre, then up the Sound of Jura, until finally we will arrive at Gigha.
First day of vacation! Flying out to Scotland tomorrow with @claireelyse to go sailing on the West coast with my family.
We’re getting married!!! • 📷 @jodyjohnston
If you’re going to visit Kathmandu, it’s almost required to take a stupa photo. • We’re back home, still adjusting from the time difference. It’s hard to settle back into routines after a crazy 10 day trip. Thankful for all the people at @theparlor for making our workplace a great place to be, and thankful that @claireelyse is taking me out on a surprise date! Later, nerds!
On their way to the border.
After almost 48 hours of travel time, @jodyjohnston and I made it back home! It was such an incredible experience to get to see the amazing work that is being done to prevent human trafficking in Nepal & India! We heard some really difficult and heartbreaking stories of the girls rescued from the Delhi brothels, but also the amazing work being done to help them recover from the trauma and give them new hope. We got to meet all the incredible people with GAN in Nepalgunj who are on the front lines of preventing people being trafficked into India. • We are so thankful for all the people who made this trip happen. Thank you to those who hosted us, to those who helped us get over there, to all the people who drove us all over Nepal, to those who fed us, and to those who shared their stories and their hearts with us. Thank you for trusting us! • A huge shoutout to our new friend @adamjpitts who is seriously the best dude! Make sure y’all follow his non-profit, @compassionunited . We can’t say enough good things about them! • Finally a huge shoutout to @aasgard.us who sent us bags when they heard about the project. Their bags are amazing; like seriously the best travel bag I’ve ever owned! Jody was able to pack everything he needed for a 10 day trip in his @aasgard.us bag and the pelican case, AND he didn’t have to check them! DANG!
It’s New Year’s Eve in Kathmandu tonight, celebrating 2075! The jet lag coming back from the future is going to be gnarly...