This trip is special to me in that it was the first real solo trip my then-boyfriend, now-husband, Dustin, and I took.  At this point, we had been dating 6 1/2 years and had lived together almost 4 of those years, most of which were as impoverished, no-travel-funds college students biding our time until the student loans would come due :-/.  Later in the year – on Christmas Day – we would get engaged.  I’d traveled to many of Arizona’s key landmarks during elementary school, but Dustin hadn’t been before.

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