So it has been an awesome last ten years of filming elevators, and 2021 was a banner year where I filmed more than 500 videos and in three new states!
However, come 2022, gas has become outrageously expensive, and has hindered my ability to travel and get new videos. I have slowed down drastically in 2022 and have only filmed 131 videos to date. For the most part, I have stuck to revisiting places I visited before 2020 and digging a little deeper into some of the areas, as well as deeper into Omaha. I have really only made a retake video if something changed or there was an elevator I missed. Despite what I said in my 2021 Year in Review, I did do one road trip this year, and I complained about the gas prices the whole trip! Anyway, with that said, after the March 2021 road trip, I have already done a lot of updates in Lincoln, Omaha, and the surrounding areas. Super Techno Cat broke news to me that Valley West mall is scheduled to be redeveloped in the coming years, so I was able to get a meet up with him and get as many escalators and elevators as we could in a time crunch. We later found out that the mall went into foreclosure some time after the meet up, so we were glad we had the foresight to revisit when we did! I mentioned in the 10th anniversary road trip video that I would not do a road trip as long as it for a while. That statement aged like fine milk! In September of 2021, I ventured out on my longest road trip to date of five days, and stayed in four different hotels. More information will come out about that road trip later, as it is still being edited. I made a rather spontaneous road trip in December of 2021 as I got some unexpected free days off work. The trip has a lot of elevator videos and a hotel tour, but there will be no road trip video associated with this trip. I do not plan on doing a second trip this year, and it's possible I may not do one until 2025. So I am hoping the 10th Anniversary road trip, the September 2021 road trip, and the 2022 road trip will tide you over until then. I'm anticipating continuing the periodic updates for quite some time. More information about 2023 will come in my 2022 year in review. |
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