Where have all the roadside parks gone?

Instead of eating tons of hot dogs (wow - Kobayashi) or watching baseball, I hopped in the car and drove up to the Kanawha Falls looking for B-roll for the movie. Tons and tons of b-roll was found.

I've heard it said that beauty of shooting on miniDV is the ability to just keep shooting - it's also the downfall. I shot mountains, and rivers, and clouds, and trees, and houses, and train tracks, and buildings, and cars. I knew I should stop when I found myself in the middle of the road trying to frame up an on-coming car between the trees, mountains and sky.

On the way back though, I stopped at may have once been a roadside park. It was this huge swatch of land off the side of the road which overlooked the river. It was beautiful. As I got closer to Charleston, I drove up to Daniel Boone park - and it was so managed. I looked around at all the cars and boats and signs and buildings. The beauty of just pulling off the side of the road and appreciating the trees and the mountain before tainted whatever this was for me.

j.brown