Texas Blog Part 3

Alright so I believe I left off at day 4 - so day 5 we woke up after a gnarly night of thunderstorms and noisey crickets to a rainy, over cast day. We packed up all of our wet crap, the Ian's shot some ocean shots and we took off to the Golden Corral for breakfest which is awesome cuz it's buffet style! Then Sarah decided that it was best to trek forward and go to huntsville which is where the Texas Prison Museum is - so we hit that and saw "Ol' Sparky" which is this super old electric chair they used to use for executions. After Huntsville, we cooked it over to Livingston which is where our subject is currently being held - in a maximum security prison - we banged off some awesome exteriors of the place - the prison is MASSIVE and really intimidating.

The same day we drove to Marlin, Texas and grabbed an exterior of a place which we shouldn't have and it was super scary, police and security was involved but we escaped!

We stopped for night around 2am just outside of Dallas - we thought at the time we would head straight to Midland the next day but Sarah added two stops when we got up. We had stopped in West Dallas as to give us a head start to Midland but actually had to head backwards to Longview which we shot some coverage of the town and then booked it over to Eastland where we got some great footage of some important buildings and such.

After which point we were headed to Midland and decided to got to Big Springs, State park to camp but when we got there it was only a day camp, not actually a camp site. SO, with me at the wheel we took off to Monahan's which was about 2 hours away - this was the serious desert.

We camped there last night (day 6) and this morning it felt like we were in a Clint Eastwood Western movie - we saw this CRAZY bug which I filmed on my isight lol. Anyways - we are headed back to Midland today to film and then to Odesa and will end up back at our camp site, Monahan's for tonight. I think the Ian's are getting some great footage but today and tomorrow are very important to the story and to the documentary as a whole so I hope that we can figure things out here! It's HOT!
I will update again in a few days when we are on our way home - hopefully by then we will have everything we needed to get for the doc - so far it's been a fantastic trip - so much to see!