Hello Ocean.
So here we are at the Atlantic Ocean.
We thought it would be fun to start the tour here. This way, the tour will be 100% from coast-to-coast, and we can take fun things from the east-side coast and place them on the west-side coast.
Beach stomp.
We walked around for a while, met some fun dogs + people, but were eventually chased off the beach by a dense cloud of flies that would not leave us (particularly Tim) alone. We look forward to seeing them again today.
New goal for tour: Get more photos of Tim.
Day one – Raleigh > Durham > Holden Beach, NC.
Today was the day. We have officially departed for our cross-country epic phototour adventure.
We were a little late getting started (as some of the press reported that we departed on Monday). We wanted an extra day to take care of certain tasks we’d been too busy to finish (such as mailing photos that people have ordered, catching up on emails, actually planning where we’re going, setting up jobs, etc etc), and wanted to take a few hours and relax before we hit the road. So we did. It was great. Good decision.
Our original tour plans for day 1 were as follows:
- Drive to Baltimore, MD.
- Eat at Paper Moon Diner.
- Hang out with members of J-Roddy Walston & the Business (one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen, who happen to be great people. Think… Jerry Lee Lewis meets Kings of Leon meets Queen.)
- Do a photoshoot for Colossus, who happens to be touring through town that day and in need of our company + photos.
We needed to drive through Durham first, as we were meeting up with good friend/rockstar/mind-rocking magician Michael Casey, aka Magic Mike. He had a book to give us. Our task was to deliver it to David Slade of the American Princes once we arrive in little rock. We were ready for the challenge.
We sat with him in Starbucks for a while, talked life, books, and movies, did a couple of stop-motion sequences with him and went on our way. The stop-motion treats we will feed to you later.
We are on schedule. Plenty of time to get to Baltimore. Then we receive a text message from Colossus. They say that their tour van has broken down in Massachusetts, and they are going to have to cancel their show for the night.
Crap. There goes our job in Baltimore. What do we do now.
After some thinking, we decide to go to Locopops.
It’s not the most relevant decision, but it was a good first step.
For those of you who haven’t had the privilege of experiencing Locopops, the establishment serves gourmet popsicles, in a variety of fun, completely unpredictable flavors. Tim and I were relatively unadventurous today, deciding on tangerine-lime and cookies-and-cream, though I usually favor the mango chile pop. Regardless, they were tasty treats. Good irrelevant-to-tour-planning decision made.
We made a quick phone call to our friends over at Flywheel Design, the masterminds behind Okaygreat.com, who have written articles on both of us before. We informed them we were eating Locopops, and they were immediately on their way to join us.
After waiting for a while, we realized we were at two separate Locopops locations, so we took a quick drive to meet them at the pop store close to their headquarters. We hung out with the Flywheel crew for a while, discussed awesome collaboration ideas, and recorded a fantastic stop-motion of the whole group interacting with a cookies-and-cream Locopop. There were also dogs involved. Here is a preview:
So, realizing that we have some tour re-routing to do, we decided to do the most logical thing – go play in the Atlantic Ocean. So here we are, by that said ocean, for a day or so until we decide on a proper next stop. We welcome your input as to where we should go next… we want to make this as interactive as possible. Suggestions? Recommendations? You could probably coax us more easily with a job offer. That’s all we’re saying.
Okay, more fun videos, photos, and stories to come. This is all we’re feeding you for now. Stay posted.
Love,
Helena & Tim
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