Well, here I am in DFW. The flight was relatively uneventful after a short pre-flight delat due to some glitch in the plane. I sat next to an engineer from NASA who was on his way to LA to check out some cost estimates for sending a craft to Jupiter. Pretty cool!
I had heard tales about how huge DFW was, but since I've only flown to here and never through here, I didn't realize how true they were. I arrived at an A gate and took the Skyway (tram) to a C gate. The Skyway (see pictures) is even cooler than ATL's tram because it is outside and goes around curves pretty fast. You really have to hang on. There truly is a Starbucks on every corner in the US. Even in the airport. I think I saw four separate ones on my 20 gate march to find a McDonald's for second breakfast (also in pictures).
It's killing me to be this close to my Dallas family and not be able to see them. I tried to work it out so I could spend a few days here, but it just didn't work out flight-wise. But I discovered that Southwest has a really cheap flight to DFW, so Andrew and I are planning to try and do that later this summer - if that's ok with you TX folks.
That's all for now...I'm going to put in a little work before we board in 20 min. One of the nice things about freelancing is I can work on the go. =)
12:38 PM
We must be over CO or UT now, because we're flying over such incredible mountains! I wish my camera could see them as well as my eyes can, but it is not so...alas, my pictures will not do the view justice. But I had to take them anyway. (Note: later I found a Photoshop tool that helped...check out the pics!)
It was flat, flat, flat with crop circles, then there were some mesas, and then all of the sudden I noticed a mountain, then a whole range of them all covered in snow...and they just kept going!
To make it even better, "Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev" was playing on my ipod. It's great epic mountain viewing music.
I don't know if you guys are interested in such details, but since I had time, I figured I'd share.
My computer battery is almost sapped. So, no more work for me until I find an outlet - that's what I get for working in 1,000 dpi (see pics). I probably won't be able to keep this up once we start shooting 12 hour days. But I'll try to give daily highlights.
4:23 PM (mountain time)
Well, I just figured out that I can't paste into Blogger from Word...and so just retyped the entire post. Oh well. I'll know better next time. I got into SLC about 12:30 local time, hooked up with the team and got a late lunch. Now, I'm chilling at the hotel until it's time to take care of the executive producer's kids (they're friends of mine) while he and his wife take the principle actor and his wife out to lunch. The principle actor is Dean Jones of Herbie movie fame. He was also in The Horse In The Grey Flannel Suit (anyone else love that movie?). Oh...and I just found out that the sound stage where we are shooting tomorrow is the one where they just shot High School Musical 3 (I'm not a big fan...but I know some who are...). Pretty cool stuff.
Ok...that's about it...I'm going to try not to fall asleep now. =)
4 comments:
Wow, what a day! Glad you made it there safely. Several have called to ask about your journey: Nanny, Gammy&Granddaddy, Mr. Gordon, among them. Thanks for the pics - not surprised that you'd find a way to enhance the originals. How will we ever know what is real?
Love,
Dad
The mountains look awesome! I am sure they are even more majestic in person - especially with a dramatic background score playing :) Mom
Sounds like your trip is off to a great start! I wish I could have been with you to see all of the beautiful nature! Sounds a little bit more exciting than my drive to St. Louis!!! Hope you are enjoying everything! Praying for you.
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