Last week's video was a thank-you — to the Jongshin fans who found this channel and stayed. This week, the series quietly turns a corner. This one is ours.
Summer 2020. Yoon Jongshin left the Hudson Valley for Florida to shoot a summer music video, and — there's a Korean expression, 친구 따라 강남 간다, tagging along with a friend all the way to the fancy part of town — Jinguk and I packed the car and followed him down.
Here's the part that makes people tilt their heads. A flight from New York to Orlando is about three hours and a hundred-odd dollars. We spent seventeen hours driving instead. On purpose. The reason is a road: the Blue Ridge Parkway, 469 miles along the crest of the Appalachians, the kind of drive Europeans fly across an ocean to do just once. We love it enough that we've been making a travel book about it for ten years — and this trip was, at last, our chance to finish it, drawings and all.
What those weeks in Orlando and Alabama turned into — and what happened after we drove back home to New York — is in the video.
▶ Watch here: https://youtu.be/kSOjXyZzyT4
Fast, or the way you love? If you've ever taken the long road on purpose when the quick one was sitting right there, I'd like to hear about it. Drop it in the comments.
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Tags: Yoon Jongshin, Blue Ridge Parkway, Appalachian Trail, MigukTV, road trip, New York to Florida, Nomad Project, Korean musician America, Hudson Valley, cross-cultural
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