Road Trip to LA from SLC with Lisa Smith

It takes a lot of bananas to stop your current life, the job, the relationship, the friends, the city, whats familiar and move across the country. My good friend Lisa Smith was located in Manhattan, NYC and relocated to L.A. She had all the commodities of comfort and the drag of routine. She is currently producing a documentary about Rodeo Groupies. Across the country she has traveled with a team including myself to find the people that make the story. She ventures to L.A to get funding for the project.
Lisa asked me to join in on the road trip adventure from SLC to LA. My friends know you don't have to twist my arm to do an adventure. Our lives have always had a strange parallel. We both go through dramatic changes within days of each other. Shed the old skin and embrace the new chapter. It's going to be great!
Being on the road felt like Thema & Louis with a chihuahua. Except we didn't kill anyone and there was no cops involved.
Driving through death valley I decided that we should stop on this abandoned road to do a photo shoot. Lisa needed head shots- why not in the middle of the desert? We get off the exit and the remains of a gas station from the 30's was desolate and alone. On the other side of the road was this old truck with at least 30 crows. The place felt like death and like walking in a horror movie. We drive on to past this place up a desert road and stopped. The place felt like at any moment a redneck was going to bust out with a shot gun.