The Serendipitous Jen

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos take a quick road-trip to Vegas to catch Metallica at The Sphere & a Raiders home game. Metallica can still rock and put on an amazing production at the Sphere.... hear in detail how cool that bucket list experience was. The Raiders home game was sad as the LA Rams rolled all over them, but the experience was a blast. Jen enjoys going in person and watching the sidelines and what's going on behind the scenes... all the stuff we don't see when we watch the games at home. Wow! This was a whirlwind trip and Jen comes back up on a little slot machine win!! Yippee

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos buy tickets online for a "speak easy" style bar-b-que dinner and it turned out to be at a very quint little art gallery in Ventura called Vita Art Gallery. What a treat. They found out that the owner of the bar-b-que puts these networking events together to bring people together, in person to make new friends, and new family. The food was delicious as we got to eat under the stars with only the lights of the candles and string lighting around the back fence. The art gallery has been there since 2008 and is just taking off with getting more artists to exhibit and bring youth in the area there for free art lessons. This was a really fun way to raise much needed funds for the gallery. Grateful to have been included in this.

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos wrap up their roadtrip visiting 4 National Parks along the way to their Durango Blues Train date night. Driving through Zion to get to Bryce Canyon, stumbling upon Mesa Verde and making a pit stop to see The Petrified Forest outside of Winslow, Arizona. All beautiful sites to see, feel and cherish.

The Serendipitous Jen accidentally got carried away and skipped Day 6 of the roadtrip and in her defense, Internet and WIFI is really spotty out of the van. Here we are on Day 7 of the road trip. Learn all about the adventures in Durango and then she is off to New Mexico to visit family & refuel on all the love and energy they have to offer.

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos are on day 5 of the roadtrip to visit National Parks and eventually end up at Durango, Colorado for another train ride! Today they travel from Moab to Cortez and make pitstops along the way, of course. Tomorrow they will finally land in Durango...stay tuned!

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos make their way to The Arches National Park from Bryce Canyon. They had a few pitstops along the way. Grateful for the experience and the safety they have had so far. Next stop...Four Corners Monument on the way to Durango, Colorado.

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos got started on the road a little later than anticipated today to embark on their journey from Zion to Bryce Canyon... so they did NOT record this until the end of the day when they were both exhausted. They learned about Bison, kind humans & the biggest Ace Hardware store that Jen has ever seen!! Enjoy and stay tuned for day 4 tomorrow.

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos spent too much time at a local casino in Nevada and Jen has another epiphany about life and the lessons that she has learned along the way. The sights are beautiful to see as they travel from Nevada through Arizona and land in Utah. Don't ask anyone in Utah about a location of a Chase bank! Learn all about that in this episode. Stay tuned.

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos are fleeing the state once again to discover new unmarked territories.The final stop will be Durango, Colorado for The Durango Blues Train ride. Today was filled with stops at Calico Ghost town, Speed Vegas for some drifting in a Dodge Charger Hellcat, then off to gamble in the casinos and just when they were making their way to Utah... Carlos got a whim to gamble some more! They will spend the night at a casino / resort in Mesquite, Nevada before making their way to Bryce Canyon tomorrow. Stay tuned for day 2.

The Serendipitous Jen and Carlos talk about what they did to share 4 days together to celebrate the 4th of July extended weekend. Who knew that shooting pool was such a technical sport? What ever happened to the ending of the previous road trip they took on a whim to Yosemite? So much to get caught up on. Life is going way too fast. Jen has a new philosophy... we only have today, even better... we only have RIGHT NOW!!Let's just go for it and have fun out there.