“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 […]
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“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
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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
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“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
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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
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“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
You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost As a history teacher, I am fascinated with people, trends, and how we ended up the way we did. This is why my interest in vintage teardrop trailers exists. Why do we do what we do? Why do we camp the way we camp? I love
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“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks” – Randall Jarrell As a history teacher, I always get a little bummed out when someone says that the “golden age” of anything was at a time long before I was born. However, it is true that the golden age
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Most campers have many stories of fun, adventure, and times of peace. However, many campers also will have some stories of discomfort, horror, and perhaps absolute misery. Camping is a risk. Most of the time, there really isn’t too much risk. There is always a chance that something will catch fire and burn to the
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After some time of editing (about 287 hrs), the teardrop trailer film is complete enough to have a preview of what will be in the final full-length documentary. The final documentary will be about 50 min. in total length. Enjoy!
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