Woke up at 8am, bright sunlight pouring through the round dome at the top of the yurt. Another great sleep.
The video with my father and uncle took more time than anticipated but I got it done. Final length is an hour and nine minutes. I feel so pleased to have that document. Once I get the green light from Fang, I'll share the link.
I started getting into some other videos after that, currently editing the hike to the lake. Shannon came by at sunset. She ended up camping about 150 yards down the driveway. We watched through some of the footage from the past month. The rig tours from back in Utah, when we had fifteen or so people camped together, were fun to watch. Next van gathering I'll definitely be doing more of those.
The quiet out here is extraordinary. No distant traffic, no vehicles on a nearby road, barely any overhead aircraft. I haven't heard a single vehicle drive by since I arrived. Just birds and wind.
The biggest challenge I have right now is knowing what to focus on next. I manage it the same way I manage my travel itinerary. I have a direction. The road unfolds in front of me. The next stepping stone illuminates when it's needed. So it's not so much a challenge as something I'm aware of. I'm waist deep in an assortment of projects, and somehow in the flow something always emerges as the thing to do in that moment.
Shannon is plotting her route back to Minnesota. It's wild how the future keeps coming. Time is flying. This has been a great season having a travel buddy. Pretty soon it'll be on to the next thing and the road will continue.
I'm thinking I'll go into town Saturday for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival chaos, ride the electric bike in and soak it up. I'm well supplied. When Shannon showed up a couple nights ago she brought backup provisions: three packages of cheese, organic heavy cream, and five boxes of Prickly Pear Crystal Light. Good for another ten days or so.
Almost all the older footage I went through last night tells part of a story but has big gaps. I think what I'll have to do is record myself explaining the context and either superimpose my talking head in a corner or use a voiceover. I'll do a little bit each day. That is the way. As for the video of my father and uncle, everything that hung me up along the way was something new I learned. On the face of it a simple video, but there are a lot of moving parts: three cameras, four microphones, 644 clips across a 70-minute timeline.
One thing I tinkered with yesterday was a way to create video content exclusively for paid subscribers. Another layer to the stack.
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