What are we going to do tonight?
Well, we have a decision to make, um, whether we want to start eating now or get food now.
What time is it now?
Right now.
It's, uh, half past two.
Okay.
And, um, again, we have really just started the trip.
We're only in Idaho Springs.
So we have to decide whether we want to go do some grocery shopping here or whether we
want to do it a little bit later on.
We can always do it in Grand Junction, which is going to be the last, the last civilization
before Moab, but we're not actually going to be going into Moab today.
We're going to be going into Moab tomorrow.
Tonight we'll be in the wilderness.
It's going to be so cool.
But we'll still have toilets tonight and tomorrow.
And the best smelling toilets in the world, and I can vouch for that, and it's for in
the world.
They, they, I'm not joking by any stretch of the imagination.
They smell delightful.
I'm, I'm the first time I'm a sewer.
You know what?
I'm a toilet connoisseur.
Okay.
That's the first time I've heard someone saying that and it sounds kind of weird.
Mark my, I'll get, I'll get, I'll get Chris on tape saying that I'm right then on the
room.
Grand Junction.
Okay.
So we'll just, we'll just make pit stops and the other nice thing in this car is we
have 110 volts power.
Reika, are you looking forward to it?
Me too.
We're about to enter the Eisenhower tunnel and the elevation posted is 11,013 feet.
And this is a very famous tunnel because it allows us to drive across or actually underneath
the continental divide.
As I understand it, this was built in the 70s and when they, they started drilling from
both ends and they met in the middle about a foot of, I think I want to say 12 to 18
inches off center lines from each other.
This looks more like New Hampshire or something.
I'm ready to be blown away.
Yeah.
I mean, I really, I can't talk it up too much.
You're not going to be disappointed no matter what I say, but I, I like landscapes that
are very raw and this is definitely getting into one of them, but you can already tell
that we're on the western slope called the eastern slope, which is all full of pine
trees, large pole pine and everything.
And then once you cross over Val Pass, you get into what's called the western slope.
It's much more gradual with decline in elevation and it's much more desert and you get into
a lot of scrub oak and pinion pine and everything.
It's a completely different landscape.
You find anything good?
Water.
Water?
There's a river down there.
Water.
Water to photograph.
Yeah.
It's quite nice with this sort of marbly sky and the water and the trees.
This is my brand new camera.
I haven't shot with it yet.
I've rented it several times, but I've never, never used this one.
Just have a look.
Oh wow.
It's still just amazing to me how small these are.
And it has a landscape built in.
Yep.
And it's got XLR.
Showoff.
Chris is an audio guy.
He understands.
Showoff.
And then this is my ride coat.
Right.
That's the.
This is what you can see when you see my Tibet 2007 episodes.
This is what you'll see in the top of every single image.
So these are my batteries.
These are well loved.
That's a real battery, you know.
But here's a.
It works.
It's got a lot of glass in it.
That's why you can't get these for as inexpensively as you can get like the one we're looking through
right here.
Which is a toy compared to yours.
It's not that it's not that Chris is any is bad or anything.
It's just that there's, it's such a smaller lens, there's not as much glass.
He's just saying that.
He's just saying that.
I mean, it's, it's got a lot of glass in it.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
I don't want to drop it.
And this is just the Sony one.
They make much more expensive third party ones.
But it's nice.
It's got a little, uh, sunshade.
And then I've got my.
Oh yeah.
All the chargers, so what I can do, so I've got this little platform, which is a third
party accessory.
So I can put my receivers on Velcro them on.
Wow.
That's smart.
It's a virgin.
Look at it.
It doesn't have a mark on it.
It's so beautiful.
But this is, this is my favorite thing.
It's such a beauty.
I've already seen my cat, but to be able to really get it, you know, proper exposure
because you can really seal out.
Yes.
Everything.
And you know, I'm sure all of you tips from the top floor viewers can function with one
eye closed.
You don't even think about it.
Are you that way?
Developing that?
Yep.
At a flinch?
Yeah.
Well, start seeing the world in two dimensions.
Well, to be honest.
I very often take pictures without closing the other eye.
I can, I've learned to kind of switch off one eye in my mind, in my brain, basically.
When you're doing video, I can do the same thing as well.
It's eerie because you'll be shooting, you'll be talking to someone in this eye, you know,
in the view finders looking directly into the person's eye, but this eye is looking
the same place this eye is, but it kind of looking up there or around there.
And the subject doesn't quite know what you're doing.
Where are you looking?
What's over here?
What's over there?
All right, let's get back on the road.
We've now made it to Grand Junction.
The large metropolis known as Grand Junction.
This is, I like it here a lot, this is really interesting.
It's just amazing, the kind of things we have seen here, the rock formations and stuff,
and we'll show you some of those for sure.
Take away all the fun now.
Ripping.
Dynamic.
What right now?
I've got gas.
I've got that on video.
Have you not seen the podcast?
Actually, yes, I think so.
Yeah.
There were so many.
Okay.
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