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DSC00278, originally uploaded by Jeanie Queenie.

jeff waiting at the airport, originally uploaded by Jeanie Queenie.

The best thing to see when come off a plane is someone holding your name up. It always makes me feel so relieved.

elk country, originally uploaded by Jeanie Queenie.

So after all the drama I made it here in one piece only 14 hours late and only 2 hours to spare before my screening! I sat next to a Missoulian on the plane who was obsessed (randomly) with soccer and was very excited about the imminent arrival of one D Beckham. He was so friendly and told me expect folks out here to very nice and accommodating ("not like new york" although that wasn't my experience), I don't doubt him.

I was reunited with my luggage which was last seen in New York and Jeff was there waiting for me. He then took me along with Doug and Mike, 2 other film-makers to our accommodation and on a whistlestop tour of Missoula. First impressions are that it's very Americana. It sounds so stupid but it looks just what I imagined a small town to look like and it just about as far away from New York as it gets. This is truly a trip of opposites and extremes.

A lot of the men look like Bonnie Prince Billie and beards are very big here and so it seems is hunting and taxidermy! The backdrop landscape of the snow dusted mountains is breathtaking and pretty overpowering - they are just so big.

I quickly checked into my accommodation - psychesque motel style room, brilliant size and completely fine but far from glamour choice! Then I headed over the 2 blocks to the Wilma for my screening.

Labels: airport, big sky, elk, missoula

posted by Jeanie Friday, February 16, 2007 | 0 comments

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