Ann & Dan’s Excellent Adventures
Expedition Prep
I’m calling it “expedition” preparation instead of “trip” preparation because a 25-day trip on the road living out of the Sportsmobile is likely to be more of an expedition and adventure than a simple vacation trip.
Although I’d done a lot of trip planning over the winter, I’ve had a long break from it given the need to prepare for a photography talk and then getting ready to pick up the rig [not to mention the fact I’ve been working all the hours I can to cover for the unpaid time I’ll take during the expedition]. There’s still a lot to do, even more so since Ann and I realized that we’ll have to pay much more attention to learning about the vehicle itself than we’d realized. So to use an understatement, Ann and I have been busy!
Liftoff
Well, we made it back from our marathon trip to pick up the Sportsmobile. It was a lot of driving over 5 days and we were so worn out by the time we picked up the Rig we didn’t really do any photography (well, the horde of people on the sand dunes had a bit to do with it as well, to include that fellow on the top of the tallest dune . . . made me wish I had a sniper’s rifle).
But just because we didn’t really go photographing doesn’t mean we don’t have photos. We always have our iPhones and, well, just think of these images as baby pictures taken by new parents.
Fresno and Sportsmobile, Here We Come!
After 15 months of waiting, we are off to pick up our long-anticipated Sportsmobile. The map below shows the main places we plan to stop on our trip. As is often the case, there are last minute changes in our routes - whether it's due to weather, road conditions or just 'cause we feel like it...
Growing Pains
T Minus 7 and Counting
We’re initiating countdown!
Jonathan touched base last week and we’ve set a date for pickup of the Sportsmobile! We’ll be in Fresno on Thursday April 13thto do a final check of the build (and any last-minute tweaks), and set for delivery in Las Vegas on Friday the 14th. We wanted to wait until we had the latest build photos before we posted this (and to get the new blog site up), but since the photos arrived this afternoon and the website/blog is up, there’s no reason to wait.
It moves too fast!
I don't really enjoy photographing live things. No wildlife, no sports events nor active (or inactive) children for me. They move too fast and I find it frustrating and often get bad results: who wants to see the backsides of their kids or blurry dogs. Who knew that a shutter speed set to 1/250th of a second would be too slow? I enjoy photographing landscapes, partly to experience beautiful or interesting places when they are at their best but also because they generally don't move much.
Maybe you think this kind of photography would be relaxing, an act of meditation? Maybe not so much.
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