The Great Plains Project - Part Three - Crew Members Eddie McBroom and Hannah Hudgens

Jerod Foster and I rode adventure motorcycles 3,500 miles from Presidio, Texas on the Mexico border to the North Dakota/Canada line. We lived off our Honda Africa Twins and slept in tents for 15 days. We rode gravel, dirt, and the occasional asphalt backroad up the middle of America. We were followed by a crew of Texas Tech students led by directors Simon Parmley, and Madison Walker, filming a docu-series for Texas Tech PBS.

 

In this episode, I sit down with Hannah Hudgens and Eddie “Pants” McBroom, both were camera operators on The Great Plains Project. They talk about life on the road, blissful tent slumber after a full day, and their childhood antics. Hannah grew up like me, riding motorcycles and three-wheelers. Eddie bought an old yellow dog school bus from his high school in Haskell, Texas and took it to prom. Hmmm, these stories are oddly similar to my youth. I feel like Gen X and Gen Z have a lot more in common than we think.

 

Eddie and Hannah are just two members of our 10 person student film crew. They are all worthy of a podcast. It was an honor to travel and work with every single one of them: Angelyna Gonzales - Savanna Montgomery - Anna Walker - Shaylin Romero Jimenez - Hud Morrison, Jill Fulton - Adele Clarke - Kenneth Andrews. Gemma Folsom is a graduate student and producer on The Great Plains Project. She and Madison Walker were with us for the entire 18 days we were on the road.

 

I miss them all and would gladly jump back on the road tomorrow and do this whole thing over again.

 

Check out thegreatplainsproject.com for daily dispatches featuring my words and Jerod’s photos. It’s like a coffee table book for your computer.