Journey West
In August 2025, I packed up my life in New York City, picked up my sister, loaded the truck, and started driving west. My parents flew in to meet us partway through, and a few weeks later we rolled into my new home: San Francisco.
I documented the trip as it happened in an X/Twitter thread. This is that thread, turned into a photo album.
Goodbye NYC
The Send-Off
Picked up my sister. Packed the truck. Had a last few beers at the drop zone. Time to cross Pennsylvania.
Wait, It’s All Ohio?
Always has been. 👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Three Dune Challenge
Indiana Dunes
Windy City
American Cathedrals in Wisconsin
Crossing the Mighty Mississippi
Corn Country
Prairie Towns
I-90 Loves Statues
The Jolly Green Giant — Blue Earth, MN
SPAM!
SPAM Museum — Austin, MN
Very BAD
The Badlands, that is.
Leaving Badlands National Park
Spelunking in Wind Cave
Black Hills of South Dakota
Climbing in the Black Hills
Buffalo Crossings
Bison crossing the road
Center of the Nation
Belle Fourche, South Dakota — the geographic center of the fifty states.
$BULL
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
The Man Himself
Reinforcements Arrive
Parents flew in for this next leg.
Yellowstone National Park
The Earth Is Wild
Yellowstone National Park.
Thermal features, Yellowstone
Mammoth Hot Springs
Offroading
Lake Day
New Home
We made it! San Francisco, California.
San Francisco skyline and the Bay Bridge
Crossing the Bay Bridge
Four weeks, one truck, and a whole lot of America later — home.