Running with Charlie...

Every couple days or so, I check in with Charlie and Marshall with a "running interview" - we talk about what's going on with them, what's going on in the country, and I get some miles in myself.  I have to say, if you get the chance to come out and run with either one, they're both great people with stories, insights, and a unique perspective on what it means to be alive in these times.  You'd never know that they're putting in 70 miles a day when you run with them.  We generally shoot these interviews from our "camera car" - which is really just a mini-van rigged out to shoot out the back.  Amira, our wunderkind production assistant has mastered the art of driving 5 m.p.h. and Andreas, our DP, has mastered the art of holding focus in dicey terrain.  After getting in some running footage, we generally take off and search out interesting people along the route to interview.  We've had the pleasure of talking to off-the-grid landowners, displaced citydwellers, an entire soccer team and a taxidermist in the middle of the desert.  All of them have had surprising, inspiring, and insightful thoughts and opinions on where the country is headed and this historic run.

Stay tuned for more, as we head into the rocks of Utah and then the Rockies...