Here’s a little secret I’ve been keeping for a few months. The “Historic Camping & Teardrop Trailer” film is making its silver-screen debut as a featured documentary the 2012 Spokane International Film Festival! Needless to say, I am pretty stoked that the film was accepted out of all the worthy applicants (only 30 films are chosen out […]
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.” – Gandhi In my grade-school years, I remember recess time more than anything else. Sure I have some memories of classrooms, lessons, and teachers, but let’s be honest, the playground was were it was at. It happened that the school I attended for grades […]
“Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.” -Jack Handey The camping season has come to a close for us. it is a sad time. We spend time inside, close to each other for warmth of body […]
This is part 2 of a two part blog on technology in camping. If you missed part 1, you can read it here. “Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?” – Shelley Long As a nature enthusiast, I am reluctant to write, in public, the advantages of technology to […]
“If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0” As the child of an Engineer and the grandchild of a clever inventor, I have geek running all through my blood. Now before your stereotypes of Steves (Jobs, Wozniak, Urkle) flood your mind, I mean that I am interested in computing, new media, and technical […]
“The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.” – Dave Barry Every […]
Larry sent a physical copy of RV Magazine to me a few months ago when we were working together on my teardrop film project. AT LAST, RV magazine has published it online. It was an honor to have Larry’s help with the film and to hear and read all of his family’s stories about their […]
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Amazon.com has approved my application for Video On Demand (VOD) at Amazon.com. If you’re a techy geek like me, you can download the film, stream it online, have it sent to your TiVo or other digital devices. This way you can save some storage […]
For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on a film about historic camping and teardrop trailers. At last, I can say it is done (see the preview here:https://overlandtrailer.com/the-film/) As an educator, I wanted a resource to use in my history classroom that shows the effect of mass produced transportation, national park camping […]
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” – Robert Pirsig Although the website has appeared to be dormant lately, Overland Trailer has been a buzz with a new adventure. It is inevitable that a website, like this one, which has thousands of subscribers, would receive requests for build […]
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