Dateline: southern Colorado

We are pushing it.  Compared to the last Independent America expedition, where Heather would often comment on the amazing regionally-influenced meal we had, there’s not much to write home about this time.  The secondary roads are both our pleasure and our pain.  Delightful scenery combined with groans of not another winding mountain road at 10,000 feet above sea level, slowing our rush to New Orleans even further.

We’re stopping to eat hastily in places I would not normally even consider.  Last night, it was a Chinese all-you-can eat buffet in northeastern Utah.  Today, for lunch, it was Mexican here in southern Colorado – decent enough, but not the delicious stuff I normally seek out.  The watered-down coffee in every breakfast joint we’ve frequented is the worst kind of a diuretic for a road trip – formerly iron-clad bladders are now porous…seemingly every two hours.  Mine, in particular.

But the boys are digging it, even on a ratio of 4 hours of sleep to 16 hours of driving.  You can see their fascination in this off-the-beaten path travel in the videos they’re producing.  Me, I’m taking advantage of the time to get things organized for the main shoot in New Orleans.

We had less than a week to get ready for this film.  I’m watching a “how to” DVD for my brand new camera when I’m not driving.  Heather is feeling the odd contraction back at home.  And I’ve been stubborn enough to apply the same rules from IA1 to this new project.  Most likely, this has added at least another day of travel to our itinerary.

And yet, we’re speeding along new roads, seeing new things, using new technology, and are hoping to tell a new story from a well-reported place.  There’s just the breadth of Texas lying between us and what we hope is gratification for the independent filmmaker...sometime tomorrow.  We're just pulling into Lamar Colorado now.  Time to fill up, and head due south to Oklahoma.  We're Okies in reverse!

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[Kei]

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