Vacation on Location: A Start...

Here I sit, a blank page staring back at me. The blank page is formidable and generally scares me off more often than not. I'm a person who has lots of ideas and big plans, but my follow through is less than stellar if I don't get the ball rolling. The ideas just stay cooped up in my head, unacted upon. This blog is my feeble attempt to start pushing on that...boulder...or whatever the fuck metaphor I'm trying to get at. Let's go with boulder. My big idea/boulder is a book idea I've been kicking around for...well, years at this point, and I'm no closer today than I was when it first sprung into my brain.

On a family vacation out to California several years ago, we had several places we wanted to visit in which movies and/or television shows had been filmed. We spent one day finding a bunch of places Arrested Development had been filmed and took pictures re-enacting scenes from the show. One particular re-enactment involved that scene in which Michael and Gob fight outside the courthouse over Marta. I'll give you a moment to remember the hilarity, recall the music, search Youtube for the clip, and then realize that for some terrible reason, no one has uploaded it.

You done Googling? You ready to move on? Great.

So anyway, visiting locations where movies have been shot has always been enjoyable to me, but there's no travel guide that's specifically focused on this type of vacation goal. You have to scour the internet, putting together bits and pieces of information. It's never comprehensive. You may pick up one or two places mentioned in a travel guide, but this seems to be a niche that is, for some reason, never covered in-depth. I can't be the only one who enjoys this type of thing, and under that assumption, I'm creating this "Vacation on Location" blog.

Since the topic is impossibly broad, I have narrowed my focus, for the time being, on Austin, TX because movies and television shows are shot here all the time, and it's easily accessible to me and my 18 year old car. Maybe this will result in enough material for an eventual book; maybe this experiment will be a horrific failure. Either way, I have taken a first step. I'm farther than I was yesterday, so there.