Four Corners

Jessica and I can now say we've been in the only place in the whole USA where four states touch each other! I am standing in Utah and Arizona; Jessica is standing in Colorado and New Mexico.

JEALOUS?!?

Yeah, I can tell... you're jealous.

(July 3, 2013)

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As an aside, the reason you don't often see images on this blog that contain both Jessica and myself is because I don't trust strangers to take good photos. They always f*ck it up. Always, always, always.

If we're standing in front of a beautiful vista that stretches to the horizon, you can be sure that 60% of the photo will be the asphalt below our feet. In Tulum I asked a woman to take a photo of us in front of the ruins; she stood 30 degrees off the required line of sight and it just ended up being a photo of us in a field with no ruins in the frame whatsoever. Another favourite is when they cut off our feet at the ankles, or the top of my head is missing. I've even gone so far as to adjust the zoom and angle while Jessica poses without me, show the stranger exactly how I want the shot lined up in the viewfinder, then run and stand next to Jessica moments later. It doesn't work; they never listen and instead change the zoom, aim at the ground, or walk to a different spot before taking the picture.

In this case, we actually wanted the ground in the photo since that's where the monument is. We had no choice but to get a stranger to take the photo since there were four states to stand in, requiring four feet. I specifically said to the guy "Make sure you get as much of the monument as possible in the shot." What do we get? Glorious blue sky and white fluffy clouds make up the top 40% of the photo, while most of the monument is outside the frame.

I officially give up.