The last getaway
For someone who was on a plane every other month, whether for work or pleasure, 5 months without a trip felt like a lifetime. Nobody prepared me for what was next. Almost a full year without any trips, confined in the four walls of my apartment. 11 months on, the time had now come for a well-deserved trip to the countryside and the opportunity to explore new places and refuel my experience tank with new memories.
The three weeks leading to the trip were filled with great anticipation. I was that excited about this trip that I started packing my camera bag at least a couple of weeks prior. I would add and then remove items from the bag almost every day, trying to pack the right gear for the many videos and photoshoots I wanted to make. Every day there would be a new video idea popping into my head. So much so that I wish I could take everything with me and just spend 10 days filming all the videos I wanted.
At the same time, I wanted to recharge, take in as much of the trip as possible, and spend quality time with my partner, since this would most likely be our last ever trip as a couple without any major obligations. I talked about those obligations in the past, so if you haven’t heard the news yet, I highly recommend that you read this post.
Every evening I would look outside the window and think of all the different videos I could film, scenarios, dialogues, voiceovers, music. I was too hard. And then I realized that it wasn’t the style of videos or the theme that I was getting excited about, but rather the fact that we were going away for a trip for the first time since last summer. This was our only summer vacation for 2021 and we were both overly excited about the prospect of going away, not the location or the activities we’ll do. It was the feeling of escaping the city that built the anticipation.
I needed no script for it. All I needed is to document the trip and showcase the anticipation that was building for over three weeks. I ended up capturing raw moments throughout our trip at various locations. Moments that mattered to me and my partner and which we’ll go back to a few years from now, remembering our last trip as a married couple without any kids.
This might be the last trip we ever take as a married couple without kids obligations, but it’s the first of a series of videos that we’ll look back and remember the moments that matter.
Till next time…
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