I have 'Living on a Prayer' blasting off the laptop - "we'll give it a shot! ohhh, we're half way there!" - Amanda is trying to eat a melted 3 Musketeers while driving, I think I might have a heart-attack from all the drifting off onto the dirt shoulder.

But, I'll admit, the hypothetical mental-image of Amanda yelling "shit!", just before plowing into a row of corn field, with a mess of dark chocolate all over her teeth, is very amusing to me. Even if it is at my own my expense.


We're several miles east of Oxford Juction, Iowa - one thing that is very depressing to me, is just how apparent it's becoming that my memories, and the order in which I remember people & places connecting, is completely scrambled. It's only been 6 years - and already day 13 of my trip bleeds into day 38, not specifically, but you get what I mean... hopefully.

Maybe that's part of what is so haunting about the experience - it was such a strong moment in my life, and at a young age, and I know I'm loosing the details of it... it leaves a powerful urge to reconnect the dots.


I want to say "thanks!" to Duane, from Warm Showers, in Lansing, Iowa, for inviting us to crash in his back yard. Also, Anna, if you're reading this: we're looking for you. Let us know where you're at (Anna is a bicyclist we also ran into while staying with Duane).

It's a very surreal feeling to be only 20 days away from the east coast - we've been working so hard to make this project for the last three years - to be so close to the end of this baby-step is overwhelming to me. This is it - this is my shot... I try to remind myself daily to not "f' it all up". It's going to be one hell of a story to sort out in post - I look forward to the challenge.

The editing. The festivals. The promotion... the pimping. The distribution. The everything else.


I am anxious though, to sit down and cut more episodes for Pedal - it was a lot of fun explaining the what, how, who, when aspects of where Pedal came from. Telling the behind the scenes of filming and post will be... interesting. We have enough behind-the-scenes footage to cut a whole separate feature length doc'.

Okay, that's all for now - I just thought I'd check in. Don't forget to stop by and check out Amanda's Pedal Flickr photo set.