Nikki R. works at Shell right near Nashville.

“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Unknown

Meet Nikki R.

Nikki R. is a very happy woman who works at a gas station.  She is scared to take a photograph for my movie.  But after she gets a cup of coffee in her, she faces her fears.  “I got my liquid courage.” 

Nikki R. wants to travel someday too.

Create Our World.

Ben

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear  - not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

Chuck is from Louisiana.

“Patience is the key to paradise.” – Catherine Pulsifier

Meet Chuck.

Chuck picks me up outside of Memphis.  He is from a small town in northern Louisiana.  

Chuck works on an oil rig in Pennsylvania.  He just got this job and it is first time, this far north.  He makes a lot of money at this job and he only has a sixth grade education.  He doesn’t think he will ever change jobs.

Chuck has a crossbow in his back seat.  He uses it to hunt deer and hog in Louisiana.  

Chuck is tired so he lets me drive his large, diesel, 12 cylinder truck.  I think it is a Ford.  I drive well.

Create Our World.

Ben

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus

Meet Elysia.

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”  ~Douglas Pagels

Meet Elysia.

I met Elysia in Temecula, California at Starbucks.  She gave me a large cup of coffee when I ordered a small.  She also gave me a chocolate cupcake.  

We maintained friendship through Facebook and wouldn’t you know it.  She lives in Memphis, where I was stopping through.

Elysia invites me to stay with her family in Memphis and we eat big southern meals and watch Ghost Adventurers.  

Create Our World.

Ben

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”  ~Elisabeth Foley