First Day on the Road!

Hi friends,

We left today at noon on our cross-country eco-video journey and have arrived at our first destination, Neffs Pennsylvania. Neffs is a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, outside of Allentown and Bethlehem. Some long-time friends offered to host us tonight and tomorrow before we begin the video work. I just picked up the borrowed video equipment a few days ago so I need a day to get it set up and get more familiar with it, before we begin in earnest!

I should go over the timeline of our project, so you all know more what to expect. We are stopping at locations over the next several weeks as we travel the southern route across the U.S., where we have some interviews and video to shoot. The majority of our videos will be shot in California at the end of May and early June, then we have a number of video destinations as we return via the northern route. We have a concentration of videos to shoot in the New England area once we return in the end of June.

I uploaded Carrick's segment from the Bonnie Hunt Show on Earth Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1eBJWiom4

I didn't end up seeing this until last week - well, I saw it live but not what aired. She asked more questions than what you see here but it was edited down.

Here are some photos from our first day on the road:

From Our Renewable Nation

From Our Renewable Nation

From Our Renewable Nation

We drove 300 miles in 5 1/2 hours, played the license plate game for a while then the kids watched some episodes of Mr. Bean. It was a rainy drive but no traffic so we can't complain.

Time for bed!
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org