This afternoon Jennifer and I did our final Q&A in Carson City, near Lake Tahoe, in Nevada.

It was our 48th Q&A screening in 44 different towns/cities in 51 days.

We attended screenings in these states and provinces:

• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Colorado
• Texas
• Florida
• Ohio
• Indiana
• Illinois
• Wisconsin
• Washington DC
• Virginia
• New York
• Ontario (province of Canada)
• British Columbia (province of Canada)
• Washington
• Oregon
• California
• Nevada

I’ve driven 4,314 miles.
I’ve rented five vehicles.
We’ve taken 56 Ubers.
We’ve taken 12 internal flights.

You might think we’re utterly exhausted but actually we’re not.

Camino walking legend Johnnie Walker joined us for our NY, Canadian, Seattle, Portland OR and most of the Californian screenings. He was a big hit with the crowds. They loved him!

And he energised us.

But what’s really kept us going day to day, screening to screening, has been the audiences. Most of those 48 screenings were sellouts. In Ottawa we had a sellout crowd of 650. In San Rafael we had a sellout crowd of 340. Dan the manager there said he could have sold twice that number of tickets.

So even though it’s been a long haul for Jennifer and me, and Johnnie too – it’s been worth it! We’ve met some wonderful people, many of whom have become friends – and we’ve seen first hand the impact the film is having on people.

Before we left home we were concerned that the North American audiences maybe wouldn’t “get” the film. That’s turned out to be something we need not have worried about. The audience response throughout has been even more demonstrative than in Australia. And the Q&As have been vigorous and they’ve asked some fascinating questions.

There hasn’t been one screening where the audience hasn’t clapped twice – one when the film cuts to black at the end, and then again at the end of the credit roll. It’s been incredibly humbling – but also gratifying.

Behind all this has been the engine room of Paul Hudson, head of US based Outsider Pictures, and our Executive Producer Marc Wooldridge, head of Maslow Entertainment in Australia.

Tomorrow we drive from Carson City, Nevada, to Los Angeles where on Monday we fly out to Germany to meet up with another of our Executive Producers, Rudi Wiesmeier. The film is getting a major theatrical release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

It premieres in Munich on April 8th, and Jennifer and I then begin a 12-15 city Q&A tour throughout Germany. Then we’re coming back to North America in early May for further screenings.

This film has a life of its own.
It’s now running on what we call: Pilgrim Power!