Tibetan confetti…

I’m putting the finishing touches on the two presentations I’m giving this week.   You know, for Horizons Unlimited, about my trips through China and Colombia on the RX3.   Boy oh boy, I sure miss being on the road.   It’s a funny thing…when I’m on the road, I think about getting home, and when I’m home, I think about being on the road.   I shot close to 10,000 photographs on those two rides, and in going through them, I am realizing all over again just how lucky I was.   Both rides were amazing.  Not many people get to do what I did, and don’t think for a minute I don’t realize just how fortunate I am.

Anyway, I’m finding I shot more video than I remembered, too.   One of the nice things about the current generation of DSLR cameras is that they have built-in video capabilities, and that makes it real easy to switch over to video when the mood strikes.    The video you see above shows my good buddy Lu, who is easily the most graceful man I ever saw on a motorcycle.   He’s releasing a batch of confetti, which is something the Chinese do whenever celebrating a major event.  The major event we were celebrating was but one in a string of major events, and we pretty much experienced them two or three times a day, every day, on our ride across China.  We were up on the Tibetan plateau when I recorded this, probably at about 13,000 feet, and the camera crew was grabbing photos and video for Zongshen’s marketing use.  Cool stuff, to be sure.

I hope I’ll get to see you at the HU event.   I’ve got lots of photos to share.  You’ll like them.