Interstate 40 covers most of what once was Old Route 66, and I have many fond memories of it. About 3 decades ago, one evening my bus pulled into Oklahoma City and the number of big old cars in great shape amazed me. About 15 years ago I lived in Albuquerque and loved the feel of the mountains and desert. And almost three years ago had some of the best laughs ever in Arizona. So I’m looking forward to the trip.

I’m really feeling this song today.

Today Misty and I celebrate our fifth anniversary in business together, and this morning I was inspired by a great article by Clay Shirky — The Collapse of Complex Business Models.

It happened again. A restaurant we had videoed showed up in the Baxter Bulletin — Three vehicles collide in Gassville — and once again the video is still a first page Google result after three years.  We thought it might be all over for Letty’s after the tornado, but we were wrong!

This morning I saw this article in The Baxter Bulletin, Local pizzeria wins, places in competition at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas. Nima’s Pizza won first place in the 2010 International Pizza Challenge for traditional pizza in the Mid-American Region and second place for traditional pizza in the International Pizza Challenge.

We shot this video about 3 years ago and it is still on first page search results for Nima’s Pizza after all this time.

A video we produced a month ago has finally been released.

In the six months or so that we’ve had our 3GS iPhones, we have experimented a few times with unedited realtime video broadcasting by way of USTREAM; shot, cropped, and shared many near realtime videos by way of Twitter; and shot, edited, and distributed several not realtime videos through TubeMogul. Realtime is ideal for the moment, near real time is ideal for the event, and not real time is ideal for a longer story. But all three can be shot and viewed on a mobile device, and have a place in Mobile Media Marketing.

Music: Kevin MacLeod

Well, it turns out that they won’t take us back to Tulsa next week, so we won’t be living on Tulsa time. But that’s fine, and we’ve got nicer weather here too!

This morning I remembered we are traveling to Mountain Home, AR in about a month on personal business, and wondered what sort of adventure we might have. We will fly from Sacramento to Denver, change planes, fly to Tulsa, then drive. Coming back we fly out of Tulsa to Las Vegas, then to Sacramento. Misty has a Funny Story about the last time we flew out of Tulsa.

The first time I heard this song, it was played by Asleep At the Wheel. I had forgotten how cynical the 2nd and 3rd verse are:
“Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey,
Little man picks the cotton, big man gets the money.
“Always wear a great big smile, never do look sour.
Travel all over the country, playing by the hour.”
You can also hear it in Bob Wills’ words before, during, and after the song. But that is not the way I feel about this trip!

There is no place like home for the holidays, but we are grateful for the many trips we have taken over the last five years. Take a look!

Music by Kevin MacLeod