Introduction to the Tour d'Joko: Yellowstone Edition

Once upon a time, a man, halfway through his existence on this planet, began a new life. He told himself he would no longer live the life that others wanted him to live. He would not give in to his fears and let them hold him back. He would live the life he was meant to live…

 Over the course of a few seasons, this worked well. He was happy. He had found a way to express his muse in a way he enjoyed. A few others seemed to enjoy it as well. He had learned to follow his bliss.  

The man had learned to reject the demands of society and his fears, but he had not learned to control his desires, and his desires brought him low. He had planned an epic voyage to the land of the Yellowstone, but his desire for the drink prevented the quest from going forward. His chariot in ruins and taken away, stripped of his means of earning coin and on the verge of being sentenced to the dungeon, the man swallowed his pride, understood he was sick, recognized he was powerless in the face of the drink and sought help.
   
The man recovered. He continues to recover. He learned to understand the difference between higher and lower wants. The drink was put away. A new chariot was acquired. He stayed out of the dungeon. He remembered his bliss and began following it once again…

And the quest to the Land of Yellowstone was begun…

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Hello, friends! I’m back! 

Yellowstone was magical. At times, I faced challenges that required heroic measures. It seemed to me that introducing the story as a fairy tale was the way to go. 

With 4+ hours of footage shot in high-definition (which means my 6 year-old computer has trouble processing it), I’ll be making videos from this journey for weeks to come. One thing I haven’t done in a long time is a “title sequence”; the following will start each episode in this volume of the Tour d’Joko.