Shooting FMP in pre Covid USA

After what has been a very difficult year with any travel, let alone overseas travel out of the question I was over the moon to finally be give the all clear to make a trip to the US to shoot more material for my FMP.

Having to use a mixture of BA reward miles and companion vouchers we were a little restricted on timings and destinations but we were able to find return flights to Denver. Planning a route starting there, looping across to Cortez, Four Corners to Monument Valley then heading down to meet Route 66 at Holbrook, heading through Gallup to Albuquerque then down to Las Cruces for White Sands before heading back to Route 66 for Tucumcari and the final return leg via Raton finally arriving back in Denver, 8 days and 2051 miles later. Here are a few snaps from along the way, we didnt actually book a giant red Jeep, it was all the car hire place in Cortez actually had, discreet it was not!

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We were lucky to have enjoyed largely good weather and no real mishaps apart from running out of fuel and being pulled over for speeding, most importantly the trip gave me the mental headroom I needed to revaluate what my project was actually about, or at least start that process which was crucial and led me along the research path to the Pittura Metafisica route which you can read about here.

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So this is the exact route we travelled, in hindsight it was too far in too short a time, I know I missed a lot of wonderful opportunities but needs must, we had fixed parameters and little did we know we would return to a deadly Pandemic so were very lucky to arrive back in the UK literally a day before the lockdown.

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