day 3 - cont'd

Amanda has her antibiotics and we are back on the road - it’s 7:45 and we are very behind schedule, but we are using it to our advantage by driving as close as we can to Sly Park Recreation area and shooting us biking in the dark down towards the lake. This way, hopefully, when we cut the pilot, it will seems as though Amanda’s stop at the urgent care put us behind enough to bike past dusk. Not that it will be a ‘blame’ situation... these things happen - a lot.

We had hoped to film at at-least two separate camping spots to add to the illusion (GOB reference for you A.D. fans) of more than just five days on the road. But we spent a majority of our time in the vineyards and orchards before Winters, California - we ran into a group of 5 from Canada, I mostly talked to a lady named Doris about her all her previous trips... I was wearing the wireless mic’, so we’ll see how much got picked up between the wind and the distance of the RV.

One thing that is standing out is the lack of recorded conversation - it’s an easy thing to forget how little you actually discuss the trip itself and how it’s going when you are still on that trip. Those conversations are more reflective and come months later - which is a small reason I’d like to rely more on voice overs and narratives than on-scene audio - but still, too much of any thing is bad, and we need a mix for this to work.

Wish us luck - xoxoxo...