day 5

“It’s a wrap”. That was unnecessarily cheesy - I apologize.

It’s about 7 o’clock - and I’m having a hell of a time typing this, the road we are driving on, through Death Valley, is shaking the hell out of Amanda’s iBook.

We filmed the end shot about three hours ago a few miles north of Beatty, Nevada, on a government road that lead straight up into the mountains. By “government road” I mean that we could only go so far before the polite police-guards would have opened fire on our RV.

I have to interrupt this post to say that we just turned the AC off, and cracked open the side windows - if my eyes were closed I would have guessed that a three foot tall blow-drier was pointed directly at my face... it’s freakin’ hot out here! Moving on.

We spent over 2 hours in Goldfield this afternoon, filmed a lot of the 4 of us rolling through town, looking at the empty buildings lining the streets - then each of us had some “alone time” with the camera (and Tim-DP), talking about the (hypothetical) last few days of our trip through the desert.

I’m very excited to see the footage - I’ve only seen bits and pieces of certain shots - I’m anxious to see how the story pans out, I know the one we have in mind, but it’s likely that when we get everything in front of us, that something else will surface.

On a side note - we have 896 photos of the pilot’s behind the scenes. It’s around 2.1 GBs of pic’s, so I’ll have to upload half of them this month and then next half the first day of July (since Flickr pro only allows 1 GB of upload per month).

Okay, that’s all for now, I need to go cool off.