Divided #2 – Day 2
We are on the road! Our Sprinter van works perfectly well, although it does feel quite different to drive such a big and heavy van. The day of our departure has been so nice and warm that we decided to go camping for the first time. We ended up in a small state park in Delaware. It has been a long time since we were camping the last time in the US, but we still love it. And Elias of course is super excited to sleep in the car for the first time.
We also manage to shoot our first portrait on our second day. While driving on a small highway in Delaware we passed a field that was full of old, small airplanes, some of them overgrown. Not only Elias wanted to inspect them. When we stopped, we could see that there were also some old hangars further back. We started wandering the property only to find out that there were even old defunct planes standing in the nearby woods. There were Cessnas covered in Vines and Pipers with plants growing out of their cockpits. Elias was in heaven and wanted to shoot pictures of every single plane with the camera he got for his 7th birthday in New York.
Nobody was around and just when we were convinced that the place was abandoned, an old man in a grey overall showed up and introduced himself as Joe Jenkins, owner of the Jenkins airfield and plane junkyard. Little had we know that the overgrown field in front of his property was an active airfield, but when he saw the puzzled look on our faces he only smiled saying that he had fallen a bit behind with cutting the grass. He happily agreed to be photographed and interviewed.
We stayed with him for the rest of the day while he happily tinkered on various plane wrecks. He didn’t say much all day, nonetheless when we bid farewell late in the afternoon he confessed that he hadn’t spoken that much for a very long time.
