It was a bright sunny day, with some big white fluffy clouds rolling around the sky, and a warm watery fresh breeze whirling around us. Four friends unloading fishing gear out of our old trucks (now near vintage) at lake  Choke Canyon. We were off the old 99 road boat launch, the original road now travels through the bottom of the lake. Having one the first mobile phones that had a camera and allowed you to film video, listen to the FM radio, put in a micro SD card and send AOL instant messenger messages (during this time period texting wasn’t a “thing”). It was a pretty cool flip phone with a nice color screen that when closed resembled an iPod classic control layout.

While walking around the lake edge over boggy marshes, rocky paths, wet sinking sand and fresh water shell lined shorelines to our fishing spot. We encountered so many different kinds of wildlife. Beautiful blue herons, creepy alligators, and timid turtles, all kinds of birds chirping and flying away as we passed through their hangouts. My friends and I were joking and rambling on about many different nothings of any importance. I decided to whip out my phone and make some videos of our adventures. It reminded me of when Keith and Allen Warren had their outdoor show and would visit the lake, although my first video that was about to be recorded strayed drastically away from any professional outdoor shows format and material. It was a fun thing to film whatever I wanted with my own format. In these days there was no YouTube or Dlive platforms, just the good ol file transfer in AOL or MSN instant messenger.