Starting on the Baja California coast in Mexico, we join Bryan Fox, his fiancé Caley Vanular and photographer/surfer Trevor Gordon.

Fox explains the ‘El General’, his family’s childhood van (which had recently fallen back into their hands) that is now his.

The short film is one of the first adventures in the newly reclaimed van, travelling from Baja up the North American coast to British Columbia, Canada.

One of the first things that jump out to me is the choice of music. It is haunting but perfectly matches the shot’s scenery.

Solidad Maranda’s atmospheric El Color Del Amor rings in the first full surfing sequence of the film. Unconventionally late, beginning after the 8 minute mark.

Even though it’s mostly a snowboarding short, the first snowboarding sequence isn’t until the film is almost over, as Fox contemplates existential matters, passions and heat stroke.

Early in the film, there’s a montage that could be interpreted as a fever dream. Fox is sick with a self-diagnosis of heatstroke. Here he gives an in-depth narration of why surfing and snowboarding are of high importance in his life.

As with many of us, he believes he spends too much time contemplating the future and not living in the moment. But his reasoning for why surfing and snowboarding are so attractive, is that it forces one to be entirely focused in that moment.