Our Expat Journey to Portugal: Visiting the Fields

We've met so many people online who give their time to help fellow immigrants. And a big part of the fun is meeting them once we arrived. Future episodes will introduce you to them. This episode is about re-connecting with Ross and Kathleen Fields who you saw in an episode from our scouting trip last spring. They are celebrating one year in Portugal.

Be sure to check out their channel on YouTube: Our Continuing Adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/@OurContinuingAdventure

I intend this series to be creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction. It is not my intention to specifically teach anything about the process of emigrating to Portugal. There may well be lessons to learn from our story, but my primary purpose is to tell our story. I think there is much value in connecting with such a story as you wonder and plan about your own journey. Or, perhaps, you may simply find this entertaining. Upon arrival in Portugal, I will continue to tell our story, but I will begin to mix in travel narratives as we explore the country and Europe.

I am a retired professor of media and journalism from Missouri State University. I am a full-time documentary filmmaker as of mid December 2022. As part of my work with students, I co-founded the documentary film studio Carbon Trace Productions (link below) -- a nonprofit organization dedicated to documentary education and humanitarian service.

Tech notes: This episode is a real hodgepodge of cameras, including footage from my DJI Osmo, Google Pixel 6, and Fuji EX-1. The Fuji is a mirrorless camera that mimics the old rangefinders such as the Leica M3 (which I happily own). I'm very fond of rangefinders. It's not such a good video camera. You likely detect a few "mistakes" :-)

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Music: Toasting All My Life by Duce Williams

Rhetorica: https://rhetorica.net/
Carbon Trace Productions: https://carbontrace.net/