the road to the grand canyon {part 1}

I absolutely love road trips. The open highway. Windows rolled down. Best friends in the back seat and your favorite songs blasting. Growing up in Nevada, our summers never truly started until road trips were in full swing. We'd pack up the car for Fourth of Julys at Lake Tahoe, spring breaks down in San Diego and unmentionable debauchery in Las Vegas (it stays there after all!) and relished every mile of it. Truth be told, it's one of the biggest reasons I love the west coast so much -- our open, sprawling highways that lend themselves so well to, for lack of a better word, drifting. 

As I mentioned last week, a few of my closest girlfriends and I packed up our trusty steed and headed into the great southwest to do just that -- drift -- with our eyes set on the Grand Canyon. As someone who runs a pretty manic work schedule, I can't tell you how excited I was to have my main decisions for a few days revolve around: 1.) when we should refill the gas tank 2.) where we should pull off to watch the sunset and 3.) what mom & pop diners we should stop off at to eat...

Continue reading the first leg of our journey...

A bucket list moment for all four of us: staying at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. Trust me when I say, we didn't want to leave!

Hats and Everlane weekender bags. Clearly a must for all of us.

The most adorable care packages from Shop It To Me.

Alicia manning the wheel of our Cadillac. 

My stylish companions, Natalie, Heather and Alicia, taking in the desert sunset.

Gold jewelry for days...

Shirt: Everlane; Jeans: MiH; Shoes: Isabel Marant; Hat: Preston & Olivia; Necklaces: Katie Dean, Jennifer Zeuner; Rings: Katie Dean, Alexa Leigh, The One I Love NYC, Bracelets: Vita Fede; Weekender bag: Everlane; Sunglasses: Chloe via Shop It To Me

Tune in tomorrow for our second installment...

Photos by Krystal Bick and outfit shots by Alicia Lund + Natalie Goel