Our camera takes 1 exposure every 10 seconds, as we drive from San Francisco to Washington D.C. This was our exact route and the major cities we drove through (in order) are: San Francisco, CA Reno, NV Grand Junction, CO Kansas City, MO St. Louis, MO Nashville, TN Washington D.C. The music is “An Eye for Optical Theory” by Michael Nyman. Enjoy!
Everyone should drive coast to coast at least once in their lifetime. I just drove the San Francisco to Grand Junction Co. leg, taking HWY 50 through Nevada known as the “Loneliest Road in America”.
Just got back from a driving trip across Wyoming:
Rapid City SD, Gilette, Buffalo, Thermopolis, Dubois, Jackson, Yellowstone, Cody. Some unforgettable landscapes — devastatingly bleak or breathtakingly beautiful. I have driven coast to coast and back too, but for packing it into one 1200 mi trip, this was just awesome. You can’t see this from the air. Nothing like watching a bison drool on your fender….amazing that less than 500,000 people live in the whole state.
You want to experience high winds out in the middle of nowhere trying doing the cross country trip on a motorcycle.
I did it in ’79 on a bike with no windshield, no rainsuit and 1,100 miles of the trip was in the pouring rain at 70mph.
Worth doing once that way but I would never do it again. Last time I drove cross country was in a new Cadillac Seville STS. Could make over 800 miles a day easy and not know you did it.
Good stuff. I’d like to do this sometime before I die. I agree with #19 that a train trip would be great if it were possible.
#18 Bob nailed it. It’s the sense of scale. There’s an incredible variety of terrain in the US. One thing I miss, though, is the variety in businesses. I used to have a gas credit card that had the different brand stations it was good at across the country. And the different motels/hotels, eating places, stores, etc. Everything is pretty homogenized today. The McDonald’s in Long Branch, NJ is just like the one in Yuma, AZ. Wouldn’t it have been great to travel the old Rt 66 back in the day?
I did a cc (Worcester Mass to Newport CA) with a friend back in ’86 to deliver a car for someone who took a job out there. I still think of that time now and then, and would love to re-drive the trek.
I did several partial trips with my wife from Mass to Kansas. I will NOT do those again…
You want a long ass empty drive? Drive across the Nullarbor from Perth, Western Australia to Adelaide, South Australia. 2700km (1680 miles). 2 to 3 long days of a lot of nothing. You hit two medium size towns (Kalgoorlie and Pt. Augusta) and a bunch of tiny ones.
Most Aussies I know that have driven it once subsequently op to fly over and ship their car on a train.
The name Nullabor, if you haven’t figured it out, is Latin for “There are no damn trees anywhere”.
first of all there should be a warning for epileptics not to watch this haha.
second…
#14 said
“1 exposure every 10 seconds
Figure 120 frames a second?
1 second = 120 frames * 10 seconds = 1200 seconds”
120 frames per second multiplied by 10 seconds equals 1200 FRAMES not seconds. so u messed up a little bit.
#14 It’s 60 frames pr second, possibly 30.
#27 The original is correct. But there is a confusion of labels:
1 second in the video = 120[sic] frames,
each frame in the movie is 10 seconds on the trip,
so 1 second in the video is 1200 SECONDS on the trip.
Except that it is 600 seconds, or possibly 300 seconds.
Amen to #19.
Forget green cars – I say we build a better railroad infrastructure. Imagine being able to actually zip down somewhere fun for a weekend and not have to worry about gas and driving and such.
As a trucker I’ve done a number of coast to coast runs. Gloucester, Mass to Stockton, California; Santa Maria, CA to Newark, NJ; and Bridgeport, CT to Burlingame, CA. This lat was my fastest. I finished loading late Sat morning and delivered Wed morning, driving alone in a truck that was limited to 65 mph. And the manager of the business had the gall to ask why I didn’t deliver Tuesday.
If you want a lonely stretch of road, try US 85 from Belle Fourche, SD to Bowman, ND. Even the antelope will wave at you.
My parents tried Amtrack about 8 years ago. I think they had to leave the train and ride buses at least three times.
I barely survived crossing Connecticut and Pennsylvania almost killed me, so coast to coast is out of the question !!!
I could have done it in 3:30