Hey guys! I'm sure you've seen the ModCloth "Name it and Win it" contest circulating the blogosphere this week with a bunch of lovely ladies around the country representing their cities. Well, I'm the last stop on the road trip (fitting, since Alaska is the Last Frontier. Not to be confused with the Final Frontier, which is space). At first I wasn't quite sure where to take my photos to give you guys more of a glimpse of Alaska than my usual posts, but when I saw the bright red color of the dress I knew it would be fun to go out to Lake Hood and get some photos with the planes! Fun little fact: Lake Hood is the largest float plane base in the world. I didn't even know that until a few years ago, it's just such a normal thing up here, I never thought it was anything out of the ordinary!
I love how this dress is both fun and a little bit sexy. The open back is perfect for summer too. Plus, it can totally double as a top either under a skirt, or if you just pull up the bottom and wear it with jeans!
If you like this fun little number, you can win your own by suggesting a name on ModLife in the comments section as an entry to win it! Today is the final day in a week of Name It and Win It items from gals all over the country. I'm your Anchorage, AK representative! Now, here's the full scoop:
- Only comments made at ModLife will be eligible.
- The name should reflect both Anchorage and the dress (and shouldn't be a name of a style ModCloth already has in stock).
- Entries are due by midnight EST, today, June 11, 2010.
- If the winner lives outside the U.S., they will win a ModCloth gift certificate that is the same value as the dress, rather than the dress itself.
- The winner cannot have won another ModCloth sponsored contest in the past 30 days.
I can't wait to see what names you guys come up with!
Since we're kind of on the subject of road trips, I just have to mention how utterly excited I am about the impending Brave trip. I've started searching out RVer blogs and I'm starting a little blogroll of fellow vagabonds in my sidebar. Their blogs are so inspiring! For me, this has been a pretty insulated idea, all up in my head, but having started reading those blogs and actually seeing those people out on the road doing what I want to be doing right now (I wish saving money didn't take so long!!), it's just so much more real. It's so much more happening. Seriously. If I had the money, I'd be on the road so fast you wouldn't even know what hit you.
And it's exciting to know that I really can live my life the way I want to. I think I grew up kind of with the preconceived notion that I would go through high school, go through college, get married, have a career, have kids, etc. etc. And I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with having that life. My parents have that life and their lives are just so full and abundant that it's amazing. But at the same time, I think I subconsciously subscribed for myself the Eric and Sue life, not realizing that I'm Elizabeth and my life and who I am is completely individual. I can be me and live MY life whatever way I want. Isn't that such a great thing about life? And, I mean I don't know about other places in the world, but I know that America is just such a land of opportunity to be whatever you want. Seeing other RVers out there actually living the nomadic lifestyle has so inspired me to realize that I need to stop putting an imaginary box around my life. If they can live on the road, why can't I? I never thought I couldn't, but now it's so much more real.
I took the Brave out for a little photoshoot last night, and just being in it, driving around solo on the highway was so... healing. For me, being on the road is an intensely spiritual experience, and it always has been. It's probably the reason the two true loves of my life are both vehicles. I have learned so much about life and God through driving. Back in college I used to just go on drives in the middle of the night for hours. There's something about moving through the inky blackness of night, with no one else on the road that is so profound.
I'm excited for my trip, too, because it's going to become kind of a mobile blogger meet-up! Since I'll be updating where I am and where I'll be headed to, you guys definitely should contact me when I'm headed your way because I want to meet you all! We can take pictures and eat yummy food or ... anything! I'm going to start modifying my sidebars a bit to accommodate some sort of little map and other traveling stuff. Ahh! I'm so excited I'm not sure I can make it till September! Discipline... discipline.
*Edit*
I was so excited about the trip that I had to update my header to be more Winne-friendly! Yay!
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That dress is just perfect, I think it should be called 'Elizabeth' after you, because it suits you so well! I going to go and enter the competition now! x
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I am really excited for you! It's going to be fun to see where you're posting from :)
I admire what you're doing right now and think that it is just so inspiring to live your life the way you want. I just got in a fight with my mother about how I should be working in a 9-5 job as if it is the ultimate goal in life. It was really frustrating to see her plot out my life for me based on her definition of succesful.
This post is inspiring. I'm sorry if I wrote such a long comment but I guess it was nice to read this at this confusing time in my life.
Will also be checking out the Vagabonds on your sidebar :)
B from A plus B
elizabeth! oh man. first of all what a great look on you. i love the boater hat and those shoes really tie the adorable dress together
second of all, i'm so right there with you about figuring out what kind of life you want - and if it isn't the kind of life you've foreseen, having the courage to explore it and achieve your goals, especially when they aren't considered "normal". i'm totally inspired by your openness and explorative nature and i'm sure SO many of your readers will be. it's fantastic.
if you come down through vancouver, i'd love to meet up! we do have some of the yummiest restaurants in the country... :)
Cute dress!
gorgeous look and lovely sentiments. Try to roll through Santa Cruz, California! ;]
I love that your Brave and your excitement about travelling are being percieved by yourself as a spiritual experience. I believe more people need to have/make more of those kinds of experiences.. one's that strangely feel like out-of-body and at the same time 'completing,' in a sense. Thank you for being an inspiration to CREATE your own reality instead of REACTING to the cirumstances. More people need to hear that and realize that there are so many other possiblities. If you ever drive through Fresno, CA I would love to have a cup of coffee! (I only have a Facebook right now [facebook.com/goale] but one day I will have my own blog especially since you've been such an inspiration.)
HAVE FUN!!!!
Love, Alejandra
That is a great header, love it. It'll be awesome reading about your trip(s)! This post was kind of inspiring, especially since I don't even have my full license yet, haha.
-Anna
"I'm only five-foot-one. I've got a pain in my neck from looking up in the city. What the hell? What the heck?"
Yeah! Love your new blogroll! All those blogs are so inspiring. Great dress!
i love that new dress! it's a great balance of cute/sexxxxaaaaay!
i hope the modlife blog put a disclaimer against palin-related names, haha!
I'm so excited. Can't wait until you take us on your journey with you! That area looks amazing! I've always been a lover of planes (one day wish to get my wings) and that just looks amazing.
Oh and that dress looks amazing!
you look so darling! and your new header is gorgeous :)
Dang girl! You look super hot in that dress. Absolutely love it.
And I'm excited for your Brave trip, as well. Love the new header.
lovely dress
I love the back of this polka dottie dress! I am head over heels in love with dress that have the cut out back design detail! Also, I feel like the hat with the dress makes this look feel whimsical & fun.
aw i love your dress!
The dress is so cute, love it!
And you are just so inspiring, I have no idea what I want to do with my life, but something adventurous is definately on the list, and so seeing you accomplishing your dream toaly gives me the hope that I can find something just as amazing for me. So thanks for that.
I've had a look through some of the 'on the road' blogs and by the looks of thing you're gonna have to start brushing up on your hula hooping skills! ;)
Yay! I was super excited to see your new header! I think its perfect that you didn't find your winnie til you got red hair. Ya'll look so good together!
Also, rock on with living your life the way you want! I am a constant source of dismay to family members and other people who for some reason have expectations for my life. No I don't want to graduate from college and have a normal job (though the money would be nice). Yes I do want to be a farmer's wife and have a completely seasonal existence living out in the sticks with my collection of farm animals.
-Erica
I love the new header! I'm finally getting caught up on all of my blogging needs from the most crazy week ever. When I got to D-Tacky I was like "Woah, new header!"
Also lovely post. I used to want that life. The perfect suburb, perfect husband, and two children named Clarence and Phyllis, etc. Then I realized that I just wanted to be different. I wanted to get out of the suburbs, etc. Currently, the trip you're about to depart on is my ideal life.
That's me now, but anything can change between here and then. -insert cheesy sentence about how amazing and beautiful and omg awesome that is-
What a cute dress, it is so pretty and looks so good on you!
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Pretty photos ! I really like your new header too.
i love love love the new header
i'm so excited for you, love! i cannot wait to hear about the Brave and all the exciting things you're going to be doing! I wish i could just hop on board!
xox
kaelah
Love the dress ! The shoes are Super Cute Too !
wow, I really admire your ambition and individuality. they say America is a land of rugged individuals and you're most definitely one of them with your take charge attitude, edgy style, artistic nature, and vagabond ways. I love it! Who does say you need to fit into the cookie cutter mold even if half of those silly women's magazines seem to advocate it! You're living the dream, girl, getting out there and doing your own thing. I wish I was that courageous and that I even knew half as much as you do. Congrats again for making it all happen!
wow it's really gorgeous!!i love d way you take your photos.n that red sexy dress ar amazing!you look so beautiful!
callmediiiyn!
What a saucy dress! I love it!
My gosh, I just love how the outfit matches the plane ♥
You looks so cute, as always ;)
I love your blog I luv what your doing your living my dream in away hitting the road, its very inspiring someday I want to do what your doing!
Oh, God, your hair is amazing! I'm being just delighted with it even more than your style at whole, but it is great too!
I love your blog and I want your life! <3 I want to do a blog as nice as this. I'm so jealous! :)
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