This is the last blog post in my Adventures in ParaDyess: Maui series. In this post I’ll talk about our favorite restaurants and beaches. You can also see our self portraits, my favorite Maui/Lahaina hacks, and my favorite stops on the Road to Hana.

Apparently the one thing you HAVE to do in Maui is drive the Road to Hana. It’s this super narrow, twisty, windy road through the mountains and along the coast of east Maui that leads to a town called Hana. The reason you have to do it isn’t because Hana is this super awesome, hopping town. It’s for the adventure of getting there. Hana Highway is 52 miles from Kahului to Hana with 620 curves and 59 one lane bridges. Talk about car sickness waiting to happen.

In Part 1 of the Adventures in ParaDyess: Maui series, I explained how our trip came to be and shared some of the photos from our self portrait session we did while we were there and I promised more blog posts! Well, here is the next blog post in that series. Things we learned that we wish we had known before going to Maui (and the Lahaina area specifcally).

Austin and Sami’s central Virginia barn wedding was emotional (and fun!) from start to finish. Their family and bridal party welcomed me like I was one of their own from the very beginning.

Day four of our trip to Europe was spent in the historic fortified city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. As beautiful as it is historic, we explored the walls surrounding the city and then the city itself. It was all made of a beautiful limestone from a nearby island with orange terra cotta roofs.

Days two and three of our trip to Europe. A day at sea and a day in Kotor, Montenegro. A fortified city with feral cats running rampant and a view to die for in the southern-most fjords in Europe!

Y’all, 2019 has been so good to us. I “officially” started my business, shot four of my own weddings, second shot another three, and so many more things I will talk about here in a second.

If you don’t know me personally yet, you probably don’t know that I’m a serious numbers person. I’m talking I LOVE numbers. So here is a year-end wrap up in numbers: