Life in LA started to deflate Colby Thompson's preconceived expectations of what being part of the filmmaking industry was really like. It forced him to take an honest look into the life he wanted to lead. The answer, he found, was one of meaning. He still adored storytelling, but came to realize that if he stayed, he’d only ever be on the set… not living within the stories he longed to create.
So, he decided to change that.
He traded LA traffic for national parks in search of the freedom to lead what he calls an unconventional lifestyle. Now, Colby spends countless months of each year traveling the U.S. in his fixed-up, albeit fragile, green VW bus fondly named, Dharma...
onward.
-dmac