When watching your videos, an old TV series comes to mind, California's Gold. We could use another Huell Howser. Add in a bit of stop and explore with the high speed travel. Kudos for well done and descriptive content.
Thank you, Camachinist. About a year after I was graduated from USC, I interned at KABC Radio on La Cienega. Part of my duties there was to go through mail as it came in. One day, as I sat at a table to do this near where the general manager set, Huell Howser came in, sat down next to me, and started going through his mail. He must have done some radio stuff while concurrently producing his California's Gold for PBS/KCET. He and I sat and talked for about twenty minutes. And let me tell you, he was honestly the nicest guy, just like you would expect him to be. I'll never forget talking to him that day. One of the questions I asked him was if there were a lot of people on his team for his tv show, and he told me that it was just a very few people, and that when he would shoot, it was almost always him and his camera man. No line-producer or anything. Anyways, it's funny that you mentioned him. He was such a great and unique spirit. Than you for watching my video. Fred : )
Beyond just picturing the old cars on that route in the hills. I can imagine being in one of them at 1AM with a hand on the shifter, manual steering, sketchy AM reception, half a sandwich and losing the false security of even the dim headlights with each curve. So dark that the one light from the speedo lit up the interior. During the day, some beautiful scenery to hold your interest but at night a white knuckle experience you have to go out of your way for today. Question> Do you have a point where you feel a trip is really beginning or where you know you're on the home stretch coming back? Even if you've made the drive many times?
Hi Mark! Your description of what likely was almost every remote driving experience is so great. Lol. Seriously, that is when a driver was totally dependent on seeing the 99 shield, or the 66 shield, etc. Otherwise, one could end up on some never ending road in the Mojave or Sonoran Desert. That's a great question that you asked. I typically feel like a trip has started as soon as I go off the beaten path, or more specifically, when I have seen my first thing/place/people that I didn't expect to see. But really good trips are about finding exactly that. For instance, one drive we did about a year ago or so up US 395 started pretty normally. I've done that drive so many times. But we stopped to look at Owens Lake. And somehow, exactly the dirt road that we stopped, we found that there were some of those charcoal burning igloos that used to dot part of the Mojave. We had just seen some on the way to Death Valley not long before that, but we just didn't expect to find these others. So that was really the start of our trip in a way. And most of the trips that we do, for the return, we normally have a point that we know we're going to turn around at. Like, we don't just drive in a direction without some sort of destination in mind. So it's usually about what we find along the way to that pre-conceived destination. How about you? How have your explorations manifested? Do you usually have a destination in mind? Here are the two sets of charcoal kilns that we explored. The first one is the one we discovered inadvertently when we stopped on the side of the road: Owens Valley Charcoal Kilns ua-cam.com/video/qN8PxSUVAcE/v-deo.htmlsi=v_cm4e6-B9K7L4e6&t=71 Death Valley Charcoal Kilns ua-cam.com/video/pNDhZuSNrIo/v-deo.html -Fred : )
Awesome video!!! You drove right through my old stomping grounds along San Fernando Road! BTW, just so you know, Van's name was Harvey Arthur Van Norman, not Henry. A (late) friend of mine used to work closely with him at the DWP. Here's a link to the trailer for a docudrama I'm hoping to finish before I die. It's about Van, Mulholland, and the Aqueduct. Hope you enjoy it. ua-cam.com/video/ZkdsJ_NY3UU/v-deo.htmlsi=V3K1uG1xY7z7iITF
That's awesome, PonyHorton! I can't wait to see your film. We visited that site several years ago. I'll find my photos of it later. We found some of the big concreted chunks of the dam scattered downhills from the site that day. It's such a crazy and tragic thing to have happened to Mulholland and to the residents. Please send me the link to your project when you finish it. Can't wait! -Fred : )
When watching your videos, an old TV series comes to mind, California's Gold. We could use another Huell Howser. Add in a bit of stop and explore with the high speed travel. Kudos for well done and descriptive content.
Thank you, Camachinist. About a year after I was graduated from USC, I interned at KABC Radio on La Cienega. Part of my duties there was to go through mail as it came in. One day, as I sat at a table to do this near where the general manager set, Huell Howser came in, sat down next to me, and started going through his mail. He must have done some radio stuff while concurrently producing his California's Gold for PBS/KCET. He and I sat and talked for about twenty minutes. And let me tell you, he was honestly the nicest guy, just like you would expect him to be. I'll never forget talking to him that day. One of the questions I asked him was if there were a lot of people on his team for his tv show, and he told me that it was just a very few people, and that when he would shoot, it was almost always him and his camera man. No line-producer or anything. Anyways, it's funny that you mentioned him. He was such a great and unique spirit. Than you for watching my video. Fred : )
Beyond just picturing the old cars on that route in the hills. I can imagine being in one of them at 1AM with a hand on the shifter, manual steering, sketchy AM reception, half a sandwich and losing the false security of even the dim headlights with each curve. So dark that the one light from the speedo lit up the interior. During the day, some beautiful scenery to hold your interest but at night a white knuckle experience you have to go out of your way for today. Question> Do you have a point where you feel a trip is really beginning or where you know you're on the home stretch coming back? Even if you've made the drive many times?
Hi Mark! Your description of what likely was almost every remote driving experience is so great. Lol. Seriously, that is when a driver was totally dependent on seeing the 99 shield, or the 66 shield, etc. Otherwise, one could end up on some never ending road in the Mojave or Sonoran Desert. That's a great question that you asked. I typically feel like a trip has started as soon as I go off the beaten path, or more specifically, when I have seen my first thing/place/people that I didn't expect to see. But really good trips are about finding exactly that. For instance, one drive we did about a year ago or so up US 395 started pretty normally. I've done that drive so many times. But we stopped to look at Owens Lake. And somehow, exactly the dirt road that we stopped, we found that there were some of those charcoal burning igloos that used to dot part of the Mojave. We had just seen some on the way to Death Valley not long before that, but we just didn't expect to find these others. So that was really the start of our trip in a way. And most of the trips that we do, for the return, we normally have a point that we know we're going to turn around at. Like, we don't just drive in a direction without some sort of destination in mind. So it's usually about what we find along the way to that pre-conceived destination. How about you? How have your explorations manifested? Do you usually have a destination in mind?
Here are the two sets of charcoal kilns that we explored. The first one is the one we discovered inadvertently when we stopped on the side of the road:
Owens Valley Charcoal Kilns
ua-cam.com/video/qN8PxSUVAcE/v-deo.htmlsi=v_cm4e6-B9K7L4e6&t=71
Death Valley Charcoal Kilns
ua-cam.com/video/pNDhZuSNrIo/v-deo.html
-Fred : )
Awesome video!!! You drove right through my old stomping grounds along San Fernando Road!
BTW, just so you know, Van's name was Harvey Arthur Van Norman, not Henry.
A (late) friend of mine used to work closely with him at the DWP.
Here's a link to the trailer for a docudrama I'm hoping to finish before I die. It's about Van, Mulholland, and the Aqueduct. Hope you enjoy it.
ua-cam.com/video/ZkdsJ_NY3UU/v-deo.htmlsi=V3K1uG1xY7z7iITF
That's awesome, PonyHorton! I can't wait to see your film. We visited that site several years ago. I'll find my photos of it later. We found some of the big concreted chunks of the dam scattered downhills from the site that day. It's such a crazy and tragic thing to have happened to Mulholland and to the residents. Please send me the link to your project when you finish it. Can't wait! -Fred : )