2 days left

I feel wiped out. This morning we woke up at took our bikes for a ride - ending up in the mountains behind Burbank. Seeing as how it was 97+ degrees today, the hottest day for this week, the 4 us were feeling the effects of the extreme heat. Actually, Tim felt it the worse, spending half the night on the verge of blacking out or throwing up - only after a cold shower and some migraine medicine did his body start to cool down.

Then Tim and I went to work on a camera-man rack for the crew bicycle - which has proven to be very tricky. If it were a rear-rack, similar to a kid-carrier, I think we would be done with the homemade set-up, but this design, because of a particular shot I want, has to face forward on the bicycle. It's been interesting.

It's now very late, and I feel about 4 hours past my bedtime. Things to do tomorrow: finish the rack... easier said than done. Rethink the itinerary to account for the loss of a day in shooting. Which shouldn't be a problem at all - days 3, 4 and 5 of shooting we only expected to cover 60 miles each day. Tacking on an extra 20 or 30 miles near the end is very do-able.

I'm sure there's more on that list, but I'm not thinking straight right now. Goodnight.