18 Days & a Backpack
'The Cali Trip'
From July 8 through 26, 2019, the summer after we graduated high school, my friends — Remi George, Joey Fields, Jalen Greiser — and I traveled by bus from Cincinnati to Chicago, by train from Chicago to San Francisco, by bus and train from San Francisco to Yosemite to the Redwood Forest, then by plane back home to Cincinnati.
The writings in this series are my own original writings taken directly from my journal I wrote in during this trip and have been sequenced with the photos to go in a chronological order.
Maps are original and recolored to show parts we traveled. All color images are taken with my digital camera at the time, Sony A6000 with a Sigma 16mm 1.4 lens. All black and white images are taken with my Pentax P3 film camera and either Ilford HP5 or Kodak Tri-X. The black and white double exposures were taken with the first 24 exposures on the train or in San Fransisco then rerolled into the camera, then double exposed with 24 exposures of Yosemite NP and the Redwood Forest.
7/8/19, Looking out the train window somewhere in Illinois
7/8/19, Me, Remi, Joey, and Jalen playing cards on the train
7/9/19, Waking up in Lincoln, Nebraska
7/9/19, Getting off the train during a 12-hour delay
7/9/19, On the move again through western Nebraska
7/9/19, sunset over our new friend, Enrique, who was on his way home to San Francisco
7/10/19, Remi looking out at the mountains beyond the stopped train in Granby, another long delay in our route while we wait happily for the train to change conductors
7/10/19, A truck parked beside the train tracks, our first morning in the mountains of Colorado
7/10/19, Somewhere in Eastern Utah
7/11/19, Morning in Nevada
7/11/19 Two frames: One of Enrique at a train stop in Sacramento, double exposed with Joey around the trees in Yosemite. The second with Enrique at a train stop double exposed with my hand touching moss on a tree in Yosemite