Since I had to cross the Pacific I also paid a visit to my friends Peter and Suzy who kindly coped with me for a few days 🙂

Here are some shots from the Big Island, or Hawaii.

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I had to see Mauna Kea (some claim it’s the highest mountain on the planet if measured from its base in the ocean). The summit at 4200m is home to super telescopes and arrays like the famous Keck.

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While there I also took some behind-the-scene shots of a local TV show that Peter was directing. Ronald Gordon, PhD. Professor of Communications at the University of Hawaii interviewing Dr. Gay Swenson Barfield, co-founder (with Carl Rogers) and former Director of the Carl Rogers Peace Project.

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Plenty of good locations to shoot downtown and elsewhere but sick of the bad weather, I decided to go to the desert. I thought to myself “What are the chances that will rain there?”. Well, eventually it did but for only 10 minutes.

So I booked a room in the town of Indio, about 3 hours drive east.

The drive-in motel reminded me of freaky No Country For Old Men for some reason and I wasn’t too “impressed” either when I found a copy of the bible in a drawer.

After overcoming my made-in-Hollywood paranoia I managed to make my way to Joshua Tree National Park and shot a multitude of locations.

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Once back in town I enjoyed some rush-hour-nerve-wracking traffic congestions while shooting locations in – finally – sunny LA 🙂

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Many thanks to my friends Peter, Suzy and Michael for making my stay here in LA just great!