Life is such a drag…. when you’re pulling it behind you.
This morning, at the crispy cusp of dawn, we hitched our new home to a big-boned, shock-solid pick up truck and hit the highway. It was the first Catskill frost of the season, but not our first time at the road-eo. (Can I coin that term?) Ten years ago John, Lulu, Zelda and I set out in our beloved Harvey the RV (RIP, Harv) with a pocketful of know-nothing but heaps of hunger. We knew nothing about life in a motorhome; we were hungry to make a film – and gobble up the American landscape while we were at it. Rumblestrips was born, and slapped silly by the wild joy of that ride, we walked away with an itchy love-rash the size of forever. It frets and burns and never goes away. So five features later, and finding ourselves wandering around the flimsy halls of Covid, it’s time to scratch that create/recreate urge again. This time though we have the itch to hitch! Introducing the Wonder Wheels: a 27-foot Minnie Winnebago travel trailer. Film we’re shooting? Hellbender! First stop? The Green Mountains of Vermont.
Since Lulu is rocking post-grad life in Portland, Oregon, we are now a trio. And we know a little more about making films, although each new endeavor is a whole new school of discovery. (And we have some fun toys: drones, steadycams, zip lines!) We will be promoting The Deeper You Dig from the road as it makes its Arrow Films debut this October. Z will be performing a twisty tango with those slippery cellular clouds for remote learning. And we’ll be gulping in the candy shop views Mother Nature offers so generously every fall. Please, ma’am, may we have some more?
So here’s to the drag. Wonder Wheels’ concrete conquest 2020.
