Well, I am on a month long journey from Northern California (Hangtown) to High Point which is in Pennsylvania. I have jumped in with the Vurb crew to help with the first 4 rounds of the outdoor national series. We have a long road in front of us, but we already have a number of good memories. After taking off from Hangtown Travis Stewart made a call to his aunt and uncle who lives close to Sacramento and we stopped in and was treated to some awesome meatball sandwiches. It was a good time to hang out with Travis’s family, great people and a lot of fun to hangout with! From there it was on to beautiful Yosemite National Park, I was the only one that had ever been to Yosemite before so everyone was really excited. I was a little bummed out due to the fact that we did not go through the valley and just went along the edge; never the less the scenery was beautiful!
We do not have that much time as we are on a time schedule, we have to be in Texas for a shoot with Andrew Short on Thursday so we have not been able to do a whole lot of “site seeing”. We did however drive through death valley where it did get up to 104 degrees at once point. It was a beautiful sight. From Death Valley we mobbed into Arizona, our stop in the AZ was at the Grand Canyon. The plan was for Wes Williams, David (England) Bulmer, and myself to walk from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to the South Rim. When 9 o-clock PM rolled around on Monday I still had work that needed to be done, so I chose to do the responsible thing and sit out the 25-mile hike from rim to rim. Wes and Bulmer started there trek around 6:30 am on Tuesday, while Ryan Walters, Travis, and myself began our own tour to the South Rim to pick up the boys. The drive to the South Rim was beautiful and when we got there it was an amazing sight.
The three of us wanted to go out and check out the Grand Canyon so we began to hike down the trail that Wes and Bulmer would be hiking up. It was amazing and we were having a good time until Ryan and I decided to do a “no-no” and go out on a restricted “cliff” and got caught by a ranger who was not in the best of mood. He called us down and lectured us on how we could fall and die. Then he went on to ask us our names to write us a citation for trespassing. We were able to doge the citation but was he ever mad! The guys got back from their 25-mile hike and they were exhausted but did they feel accomplished! It was an awesome thing for the both of them and they each said, “That might have been the hardest thing I have ever done, but I am so glad I did it”.
Ryan trying a new career…..Being a male model
Photo By: Travis Stewart
Walters Photoshoot on the to seeing the Grand Canyon
Travis, Walters and I chilling out enjoying the view.
The view
I have to tell you the truth Travis really makes this photo! HAHA
This is why Walters and I got in trouble, we went out on the ledge.
See the Ranger on the left ya that’s my buddy that didn’t like what I did much and asked me to take a seat so that is where I was walking.
I couldn’t hold it in any longer, this is me busting up about the ranger being so mad at us.
So on the road once again, on-word to Texas. Walters and I hammered out some miles last night with Walters getting things started around 9:30 pm and got things done around 2am (with a 2 hr time difference). While big Walters was behind the wheel I was finishing up some final touches on the last bit of my work, when I was all done I took over behind the wheel and began mobbing. I took over around 2am and took control until about 5am, it was only 3 hrs but some of the hardest driving I have ever done since I had been up since 7am on Tuesday.
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