Day 2.0: What We’ve Been Up To

Greetings, readers and apologies for the long absence! Last we updated this blog, we were celebrating the wedding of Lisa and Michael in Los Angeles on Labor Day Weekend. Aside from a quick trip up to Northern California to meet our new niece, we haven’t actually been doing what we’d call a road trip since then. We spent some of September celebrating the Jewish holidays with Arielle’s family, and then flew back to New York to spend Sukkot with Abe’s family. Abe covered a few films at the New York Film Festival, including Roma and The Favourite, before we drove to Boston for a few days, the highlight of which was the beautiful wedding of Julia, Abe’s high school friend, and Frank.

We returned to the West Coast briefly before flying back to New York for Arielle to facilitate two events, participate on two panels, and attend many more incredible programs at Reimagine End of Life, a community-wide effort to explore life and death. The culmination of that trip was yet another fabulous wedding, that of Lori, Abe’s friend from USY, and Jason.

We flew back to Los Angeles in mid-November, and mostly camped out there through the middle of January. Abe went to as many movie screenings as possible while Arielle developed her workshops about end-of-life conversations and reached out to communities for us to visit on this trip. Brief detours to Northern California for Thanksgiving and to Hawaii for Christmas week were delightful. In early January, Abe’s parents came to visit for a few days, which was great, and we spent the weekend together in San Diego. We enjoyed our first wedding of 2019, where Arielle was a bridesmaid for Alexi, her friend from USY, and Benjie.

Just a few days later, we flew to Utah to cover the Sundance Film Festival (Abe) and Slamdance Film Festival (Arielle). Abe saw 46 movies, and Arielle saw 18. Check out our reviews at www.MoviesWithAbe.com.

After a brief stop in Northern California on the way home, we returned to Los Angeles to finish packing up our car and leave less than eighteen hours later for our big trip!