Lots to do. Here’s a bit of interesting behind-the-scenes madness for you: there are 3 short days left, and I still do not have a bicycle, or bike-racks, or a tent… Tim, who, as I mentioned, arrives tonight, is without a bicycle – his was (what’s the right word) broken. And I’m still without a cheap-o huffy and jimmy-rigged kid-carrier for the crew to get unrestricted shots of us biking. When I say “unrestricted”, I mean by having to film from the bulky RV at all times.

[28 minutes later - just got off the phone with Tim] Here’s what we are going to do about a few of those problems. When Tim gets here tonight, we plan on buying a used cycle from a Goodwill or second-hand shop. Which might also be where I’m buying my bicycle from – if nothing turns up on Craig’s List. As for the tent, I have one laying on the garage floor of my Dad’s house in Onsted, Michigan, that Nick, my brother, should be packing with him on his flight tomorrow.

Last night I mentioned briefly that Olivier, the DP for Pedal, is no longer flying out from Brussels as originally planned to work on this pilot.

This is a very layered story and I don’t think I could get into the details having only my own persecutive. But, a summary of this could be chalked up to an undelivered email message, that for a day, caused a huge amount of tension and worry – but in the end, things were fairly resolved. Yes, I know all that is incredibly vague, maybe someday – when you’re older – I’ll tell you the rest of the story, but now is not the time or the place.

So – who is our replacement DP you ask. Good question, it could be Tim (no, not my Tim from Hawaii, another Tim… who I will refer to for the moment as Tim-DP to avoid confusion) who was originalhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifly taking on the job of on-board editor. Now I’m not sure if he plans on juggling both editor and DP, or what. Our other options is some one new – which could be tricky being it’s so last minute, but later on today when I meet with Matt and Aaron I’m hoping I’ll meet any possible takers. We’re cutting it close…

One more thing, above (in thhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifat little light-grey pilot info box) you’ll see three pictures. Right now, as I’m writing this, those pictures are all the same, and if you put your mouse over them they just say, “Pictures Coming Soon!”. This is a set we’ve created on Amanda’s flickr account – which last night we upgraded to Pro’, we’re still waiting for it to take effect – so if you were wondering why that seemed so stupid, it’s just not up & running yet.

But the route (plotted out in Google Earth) is working just fine – so don’t forget to check it out, and follow the directions by clicking the “Huh?” link. Enjoy.