So. Many. Things.

Hi, everyone!
Let's start out with the fact that I'm alive and well. After six weeks away, I've returned to my happy home in South Dakota. I expected that I'd get home and start churning out blog posts right away, but it took me a bit to find my grove. I had a lot of things to get caught up on the past week, and I've been working at housework/regular work/sleeping rather fiercely.

Now, it's time to blog.

I want to start out by thanking everyone for keeping up with me, even when my adventures have kept me from posting regularly. I only was able to post four times in August, yet it was my best month yet. Thanks for your loyal readership! I promise good and frequent content in the coming months.

When I left off, I had just recently arrived in Texas. My time there was spent visiting WearYouOut, Lillawbrat, and Debs and shooting spanking videos for the site Firm Discipline. I also spent a lot of time eating delicious things, because my hosts are foodies. I got to have authentic, the best of the best, Texas BBQ and it kind of knocked me off my feet. It was JUST AMAZING.

I didn't eat all this by myself, don't worry.

I had a lot of really good times while I was there, including going to the zoo with new, up and coming spanking model, Mila Kohl. Mila loves giraffes a lot, and her special stuffed animal is a giraffe named Henry, so doing this with her was pretty much an epic win:

I was concerned that she may die of excitement.

Nose to nose!

I also, of course, got spanked a lot while there, since that was the purpose of the visit. I'll be going through and talking about some of the videos in detail. This is just an overview post. I will give you this image to tide you over until that happens:

After about ten awesome days, Heather Green, my close friend, scene sister and fellow model, joined us for an evening. We filmed several videos, including one where I topped Heather and one where I threw Heather and Debs into the pool. Fun. Times.

From left to right: Heather Green, Alex Reynolds (me) and Debs

The next afternoon, Heather and I left for Dallas, where we did a second shoot for Amateur Spankings.  Our first shoot hasn't been released yet, but we had a lot of fun shooting with Gary and Val. During one scene, Heather and I were getting paddled next to each other. When the scene was finished, I looked at the paddle and noticed this:

Score! Another point for Heather and me in the battle of bottoms vs. implements!

The next morning, we took off on our road trip, which we documented carefully on film. I'm editing it right now to make a behind the scenes video which includes a lot of candid spanking conversation, us talking about preferences and how our interests/obsessions developed, the story of Heather's first spanking and video evidence of Heather spanking me with part of a broken car bumper on the side of the road in Texas. Once I finish up the edit, this will be available on my clips store. 

Our first day consisted of pretty much just driving, talking and filming. The next morning, though, we went to an Ostrich Farm and took a short break there. There were also deer, donkeys, goats and lorikeets. It was tons of fun.

From there, we drove to Phoenix, where we did a Damsel in Distress shoot. This was a fairly new experience for us, but we had a lot of fun, and the photographer was really kind.

I'll talk more about that shoot later, too.

From there, we drove to our next overnight in Flagstaff, where we stayed in a hotel, hung out in the hot tub and chatted a lot and rested up for our adventure the next morning:

My face looks awkward because it was INSANELY bright out

Everywhere we go, I love being with Heather!

We headed to the Grand Canyon the next morning. I'd been there once before, but Heather was seeing it for the first time. When we arrived, we were hungry, and so I suggested that we get lunch at the Bright Angel Lodge, since that was where I had eaten the last time that I visited and it had been good food at a reasonable price. While we were eating, Heather kept asking me how long it was going to take before we would get to the Canyon-- I guess she didn't realize that you're able to park very close to it and just walk up to the rim. I didn't tell her otherwise.

When we finished eating and came out the back exit of the lodge, the canyon was RIGHT THERE. Heather's was really surprised and excited: her face lit up as if it was suddenly Christmas.

We spent the day hiking around the rim. Heather wanted to go to the bottom, but we weren't really prepared to do that, so we decided to do that the next time that we came. Heather was very daring the entire time that we were there and kept going right up to the edge. I'm, however, a bit uncomfortable with heights, so I ended up staying back and taking photos from a distance. I possibly spent some time clinging to handrails, too. Just a little.

Another thing which was awesome about the Grand Canyon was the fact that I'd been there before, so I knew all the science and history of the Canyon and park pretty well, so I felt super smart when I could just burst out with some interesting tidbit of information. I decided that in the future, I'm going to research wherever I'm going in advance because knowing stuff before you get to a place makes you awesome.

We drove a bit more after we finished in the park, and then spent another night. The next morning, we got up and headed for Vegas. We were excited to be finally arriving there, and pumped for Shadowlane. It didn't stop us from pausing to visit the Hoover Dam, though!

Here we are, crossing the state line into Nevada:

It was so hot I thought we would die. 

And here we are sweating our faces off by the bridge.

We went into the gift shop there, largely because we wanted to cool off-- it was in the 110's out. There, I discovered this awesome thing:

CACTUS ON A STICK

I didn't buy this, because I was trying to save money and it was $12, but it was a CACTUS ON A STICK. My previous long distance Dominant, Scotchgrove, used to threaten that he was going to "whip you in the throat with a cactus" when he got full of righteous anger. I think that this would make a hilarious spanking implement. Oh well. Next time! (If anyone wants to send me a cactus on a stick, I would love you forever and make a really ridiculous video involving it. Just in case you have one lying around your house.)

Anyway, after we were thoroughly educated about the history of bringing water to the desert by way of the feat of engineering that is the Hoover Dam, we got back in the car and drove the rest of the way to Vegas.

I will continue this tale in my next post.
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