MAY 26. SEATTLE

Note to self: 1. do not leave iphone on while filming - the frequency may interfere with the radio microphone. 2. always carry the phone number for an emergency camera repair shop in your back pocket - in fact - just put that number on speed dial. 3. always carry a tonne of spare batteries in your back pocket, you will probably need 20 per day. 4. always wear pants with big pockets. 5. your subjects will almost always be more articulate than you, no matter how young or how different - so be quiet and listen to them. you have a lot to learn.

SYDNEY

Molly! That photo below still makes me laugh. LOOK at the face I'm pulling and what are we wearing? Didn't we meet in winter?? It totes would have been snowing outside. I look so emo. how old am i like 21? 22? wow. Can't believe we are picking up this adventure again. I kinda always had a feeling that we would. i'm honored to be coming along for the ride and meeting everyone in America. Really, I can't wait to meet you all. - AT

NEW YORK 2005

Mirelle and Amy, Brooklyn, NY. 2005 ©Molly Landreth

This is the beginning. I took this photo of Amelia (who I know as Amy) and her friend Mirelle, in Mirelle's McKibbin St apartment in Brooklyn oh so long ago.

Amy & I met through my roommate Jeremy (check him out HERE: "Gary and Jeremy, Brooklyn, NY") and became fast friends. We painted apartment walls, we tromped through knee high snow, we drank beer & talked love and art. Jeremy, Amy and Mirelle (who we will be visiting in MN on this trip!) were actually some of the first folks photographed for this project!!

Now it has been 4 stinkin' years since I've seen Miss Tovey and in one week she's going to show up at my house in West Seattle with her bags packed and her camera ready. ....and together, much like we started, we will finish this project!! -ML