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Reflecting back on the July Fort Lauderdale trip's failures

In case you were wondering why I was writing this blog post, I was writing it to shed a little bit of light about basically why the first trip to Fort Lauderdale's EleFilm part nearly got scrapped from the books. In this post I will also share with you things that I will not do for future trips to Charlotte-like cities which I did during the first plane trip to Fort Lauderdale.

Blogging way too early

I think the largest contributor to why my plans for filming lifts throughout Fort Lauderdale near completely failed was because I did not take into consideration the possible negative outcomes of the trip. In fact, I was way too excited about it to even give a care in the first place about it, so there's your clue about why it almost failed completely.

What happened was, I got news of the Fort Lauderdale trip, the lifts in our hotel & the picture of the hotel on the last Monday of June that year. Immediately, I started blogging about the trip right away, which was a big NO-NO. Plans changed extremely drastically throughout the course of the first half of the trip itself, almost scrapping my agenda for filming lifts off the books completely. Key word, almost.

The saving grace here

The hotel company Marriott International was the company who helped to SAVE my EleFilm agenda for the summer Fort Lauderdale trip. More specifically, the hotel "Courtyard Fort Lauderdale Beach" by Marriott. Basically, what happened was, on the last Friday of July of the same year, I was SO LUCKY to find out that the reservation could not be canceled within two days prior to it happening. Luckily the reservation was happening the next night which meant that it could not be canceled. This completely relieved me in ways not even the smartest U.S. lift enthusiasts could predict.

The lesson I learned here

When trips are planned at latest one month before the predicted first day of the trip, keep hardcore blogging at the absolute minimum until the itinerary is a certainty. Otherwise things will not go smoothly & enjoyment time during the actual trip will be taken away by rewriting blog posts to inform everyone about changed list items. 

My comeback

However, we now have #FRIRND on Google+ so we don't have to write full-length blog posts every time we need to update people interested of the lifts of what is going on for the trips. The new #FRIRND has saved hours, possibly days worth of blog writing during past trips to Fort Lauderdale & other Charlotte-like cities. On the plus, I could now update everyone at every time using a universal hashtag for both Google & YouTube.








The pictures below contain the only lift I was able to film when I went to Fort Lauderdale during the summer plane trip. These lifts alone satisfied me for the trip.

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