Oct / Nov "Beaches" AL, SC, & TX too many times

Getting to work on a beach show?! Awesome! Oh wait...I keep getting sent to Texas. Still a good gig.

4 episodes in Oct / Nov

October was tiny Sargent, TX. Then Hilton Head, SC over Halloween.

November was one day prep / wrap from SC and off to Gulf Shores, AL.

A week off and then back to Texas - Rockport, TX - for the vegetable option being fried pickles.

Back to no "home" living with a sublet apartment since end of October. We'll see. Pretty good deal though.

9th Year in Peru & Costa Rica - September

Trip #8 for me #11 for Josh to Peru! 9 years of filming the changes of Yantalo. As always, overwhelming and nonstop, but inspiring and worth it.

THEN COSTA RICA - for the first time we went outside of Peru! Filming the amazingness of science and future cancer treatments.

Plus just fun exploring on what I call turtle Island. Tortugero National Park. Where we witnessed HUGE prehistoric looking turtles laying 120 eggs on the beach in the dark, 3 kinds of monkeys, sloths going to the bathroom (they only do that every 7 days!), iguanas, otters, alligators, and birds.

Oregon in August

Southern Oregon for an awesome week of theater, wine, food, smokey wildfire air.

Got to hike in Crater National Park and then went swimming...so basically I can say I went swimming in a collapsed volcano.

Indianapolis - St. Louis (aka tiny Illinois) - Vermont

Oct / Nov - Month shoot outside Indianapolis and outside St. Louis. Office was a mini van and there were 19 hour days. But there was singing on walkies and crew yoga.





Nov / Dec - Snowy Vermont and some stays in NYC.

Pennsylvania - New Jersey - New Orleans

Pennsylvania for more barns in June.

4th of July - New Jersey. Specifically in a pool. In a pool for 4 days straight.

End of July - New Orleans for an amazing unique wedding involving a downpour of rain, shutting down streets for 2nd line dance party, music, and old friends.

Realized upon returning from New Orleans, my brain functions differently when traveling. There's no dwelling. There's less purpose / need for constant productivity. I feel constantly in motion but don't have to think about that. I live in the moment while traveling, without even having to remind myself to do so.

1st Barnwood Shoot - Indiana, West Virginia

First note: March - Went to VT and sugared and made a HUGE snow fort. 3 hours of non-stop digging. As adults, we made the childhood versions of ourselves extremely impressed.


April into May - Winter into Spring - 10 days on the road

Ohio for a night, Indiana for 4 days, Upper West Virginia for 3 days, lower West Virginia for 3 days. Or something like that.

Didn't realize there were such secluded places in the middle of the U.S. 45 minutes to get to anything. Some spectacular spots!

Traveler, Nomad, Vagabond, Gypsy, Homeless

6 months & 2 weeks on the road / living out of a backpack / not having a place of my own / not paying rent. It’s been over half a year since I gave up my apartment.

Explaining what I’ve been doing is really hard. People ask where I moved from. Easiest answer? Nowhere. Most confusing answer? Nowhere. Maybe “everywhere” is more appropriate, but I doubt solves the confusion.

My insurance company for my camera / other equipment called every month asking for my new address. Yes, keep my mailing address my parents, yes please still insure my storage unit, no I do not have a physical address. Month 6 another call came in, they had heard back from some higher ups and needed my physical address where I was living. After 6 months they still couldn’t figure out that I was living nowhere! Did they want me to call every week or every day with an updated address? There are other things too that require living at a physical location. Like voting. So then, where do you belong if you travel all the time?

I was so excited about getting all of my belongings out of storage, but as I unpacked box after box (actually, I had packed in garbage bags due to the last minute rush of my moving in July), I just felt a feeling of panic. How did I have so much, so much that I didn’t need for half a year. What’s the point? And now all of sudden I can no longer pack all of my possessions in less than an hour and be on a plane to somewhere else with no trace left behind.