An Exciting Friday! (Patreon)

It's an exciting day for me today but before I tell you why, let's get this week's early access video out of the way. In this week's early access we have a little bit of a rant about why we feel it's okay to judge a place through our own perspectives, I think it's high time we put this to rest and I hope you give us your opinion on the matter, here'a link to the video:

https://youtu.be/69EDhJYdqQ8

So why am I excited?  My parents have come to visit for a few weeks and let me tell you I don't ever see my parents. I barely even talk to them (not on purpose) but the last time I spent any time with them was around 2 1/2 years ago when I took Sasha to meet them in Mauritius (the picture above is of Sasha messing around on the inflatable unicorn we bought for my niece). Why Mauritius? Well it's very close to South Africa and flights there are cheap as well as convenient for my folks to fly there, however flying to a place like China or the USA is firstly a hell of an experience usually involving multiple layovers and the actual flight time from JHB to LAX is around 22 hours in the air and also involves a 9 hour stop over in London. It's also the cost of tickets. Plane tickets out of South Africa are very expensive as SA is very much cut off and out of the way compared to most of the developed world and with the state of South Africa's economy and the way everyone is struggling at the moment, the thought of spending thousands of dollars to fly somewhere for a visit/holiday is out of the question. That's where you come in, remember I made a promise right at the beginning when I started my Patreon page that every cent I earn through Patreon would go back into making my videos? Well that's exactly what I've been doing. Equipment (cameras etc), editing hardware and of course most importantly travel to interesting places and everything that allows me to do so comes from the money I've received through your kind support, I will never spend the money on personal things but because of your support I have been able to not only weather the storms of attacks against me by ultra nationalists and youtube ad censorship, but I've also managed to save up some personal money that I would have spent on camera gear etc and I decided to pay for my parents plane tickets to visit me here in the states before C-milk and I head off on our next trip and I'm incredibly excited as this is their first ever visit to America. I can't wait to show them the USA and to get their impressions on the place. I'm sure it will make for some interesting insight and hopefully an entertaining video or two, I will absolutely be making some Patreon exclusive videos with them together for all of you and I promise they won't be boring family nonsense, I'll get my dad to tell you about some of his adventures involving lions and snakes and all that.

Hope you all have the most awesome of weekends and as always:

- Stay Awesome

SerpentZA