Numnuts here. 13,000 miles. Cross country in 42 days. Geez, that’s a lot of turns of the wheel. When I graduated college, there were two main mandates one had to follow. First was, don’t get a job. Being a largely freelance shooter for more than 30 years, I figure I’ve fulfilled that one quite nicely. (Or, if you did have a mind towards gainful employment, it had to be radically, you know, out there. One of my friend’s entire business plan for post-college life was to go to Katmandu and sell Swiss Army knives. Hmmmm. Haven’t heard from him in a while.)
The other was go cross country, man. (You can supply the inflection—Tommy Chong, Spicoli, Firesign Theater.) Never did that. I mean, I’ve logged lots of miles, but it’s never been in a string that starts on one side of the country and ends on the other. Come March, David Hobby, Drew Gurian, myself and crew start playing out that long held string.
And we go in style. The bus looks amazing. I have questions about it. Top end? Capable of a wheelie? Can I drive it for a while? I drove a bus in college, and I’m sure it would all come back to me, just like riding a bike. David’s already filled you in on URLs for video, tweets, and Flickr groups. We’ll be heading to 29 cities, spread over 5 weeks, and hitting rest stops, truck stops and f-stops (couldn’t resist!) all along the way. We’ll tweet locations and routes. We’ll publish, ahem, behind-the-scenes videos of life on the bus. It'll be a blast, and a touch on the weird side. (Huh? Let’s be straight up here. It’s going to be really weird, and a ton of fun.)
Really, really excited about something else. The opportunity to teach with David. We both get to the same place, which is good light, but come at it in very different ways. It'll be a good mix, and a great day of teaching.
So keep checking here, David’s blog, and my blog for updates. The road is calling, and there’s a bunch to do.