Hey guys, I hope you can see me it's pretty dark here, but
Yeah, if you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you might already know about the great news
and sad news at the same time. It's that we are leaving Portland and the Pacific Northwest on November 5th
We are going to be spending the next few weeks
Slash months on the road road tripping the United States, so it's pretty exciting
It's also very sad to leave
This amazing place behind, but it is what it is
So this one is gonna be the first episode of a new series that I'm gonna call
very original name
American Road Trip, Journal, so this is the entry number one
As I said we are living in November 5th, but until then
I'll be
Going to places around
Oregon and Washington pretty much saying goodbye to these places were I'm not gonna be coming back
anytime soon
This week this is going to be for Oregon and right now. I'm camping well car camping at lava lake in the Deschutes National Forest
So it's 10 p.m.. Now, it's been dark for almost 3 hours, so it's gonna be a long and cold night
It's 30 degrees outside I believe
33 but yeah today was a long day, so let's start from the beginning shall we?
One thing that I almost forgot: I usually show my film photos on these videos that I post in YouTube
but that's not gonna be the case with these videos because it's gonna be... there are gonna be quite a few of them
so I can't wait to go home or hotel or wherever we are
develop the photos and then scan them and then put them in the video
So I'm gonna be including just digital photos from this camera
But I'm gonna be talking about film photography of course and then every once in a while. Maybe once a week
Maybe once every two weeks
I don't know... I'm gonna just do a recap of the whole thing and show all the photos once I develop and I scan them
mm-hmm with more time
So yeah, let's start with today
started the day
pretty late. here we are driving through Mt Hood. It's so is such a beautiful drive
I'm gonna miss it so much
But yeah the fall colors were going crazy as you can see here a lot of yellow and orange trees
That's gonna look
Pretty in Black and White! Then after Mt Hood comes the desert. Eh
As you can see the Cascades don't let the rain pass
It's also a pretty cool drive. It's pretty different. These are the warm springs
This part of Oregon has really great views of the Cascade Mountains, though
Here you can see Mt Hood just very
Casually, but you can see a lot of other mountains like Mt Jefferson, Three Fingered Jack
Mt Washington, The Three Sisters
Broken top so it's a pretty awesome landscape
Our first official stop was of course Smith Rock
But I was not expecting this weather. It got really hot. I mean I think it would like
70-75 degrees
But enough to get pretty hot in the car. It was packed, it was full of people a lot of people were climbing
I've never seen so many people in Smith Rock. I guess it's peak season
But anyway, I took a few photos
with the bronica
Even one with the Holga, and yeah walked around a little bit, it's it's always a nice place
But then we headed to where we were planning on spending the night that it was the Cascade Lakes
area
This is the approach
To Mount Bachelor, the highway is still open. I almost got stuck here trying to get to Sparks Lake
it was too much snow for the
for the Jeep
it wouldn't have been fun being alone
So we kept going I was looking for a place to actually spend the night. I found this little campground here is the Lave Lake
As you can see it has also a nice view, and there is a campground! It was open so
And then we left campground again to spend the evening driving around and just taking photos during sunset
Even had time to take a long exposure with the bronica
of Mount Bachelor at Elk Lake and
From here, I'll just play some music