Why is it cold here?

3:21 PM 10/24/2005

I guess its been a few days now since I've posted, Sorry!

I'm still in Memphis, and its Cold here! This is something I hadn't really planned on, I had been so hot in the van the first week or two, and was really expecting to have problems with the heat. This last few days its taken a turn toward much cooler temperatures. According to CNN weather website, its now 55 degrees here, it was 80 last week.

I'm still couch camping here for now, not exactly the way I'd planned the trip, but on the other hand, its a nice break from the van.

The situation here hasn't changed much from the last post. I have a couple of appointments here that are holding me up, and have really messed up my momentum. The first one is this week, the next one isn't until 9 November, so I may try to make it down to New Orleans inbetween now and then, if I can raise the funds to get there. If not, I'll just stay put and do some editing.
I've been getting a lot of video sorted and some rough edits done. Now I'm going over some of the video from the first week of the trip, I did some shots out the front windshield, just basic scenery stuff. I'll be making some time lapse sequences from them, that always looks cool. The part of that which will slow me down a little is because I sometimes would talk to the camera, so now I'll have to scan through all that and find where I said something, and then see if its anything useful.

Just sitting here now, watching footage on TV from Hurricane Wilma in Florida, Cancun, and Cuba. What a year. Even with my current slow down here, I'm looking forward to putting together a plan for next year. I'm not exactly sure yet, but I have some ideas I'm going to explore in the next month or so, once I'm home. I'm looking along the lines of how can I go out next year, do a follow up to this year's story. On a scale of what can I do alone, how can I be more prepared. Some points I'm looking to, upgrade the van with generator, air conditioner, finish setting up the interior so I can do more work in the van. Beyond that, I will have more infrastructor set up, people I can contact in different areas.

All in all, its a good thing. I'm glad I'm here, glad I came, and with some minor changes, I'll probably do this again.

Stay Tooned :)
Carlin