Although the trip was from New York to San Francisco, I ended up buying the camera and started taking pictures in State College, PA. I used 3 circle stickers on the roof of my car to mark the position for a tripod, and kept the camera attached to the tripod the whole way. I also ended up getting very good at pacing out the same spot in the front of the car :)
I ended up stopping about once every 40 miles or so, although I did some night driving and there was a fair bit of rain, so I wasn't able to get 100% of the pictures taken.
The parts where I took pictures of me jumping were in Nevada, absolutely gorgeous setting.
Cool, on my drive from Seattle to San Diego last summer I had just gotten an auto power cord for my laptop, so I decided to make use of it. I recorded one frame every 30 seconds of the entire drive:
If you had USB GPS receiver, you could have stamped each frame with lat/long, and later overlaid a map with a path that showed your progress onto the video...
I plan to do this in June (moving home to SF after graduation). My video will show me getting laid in every state I visit. We'll see who gets more views.
oh dear. this brings back painful memories. a couple years ago i drove from cali to illinois. starting out it was all nice and beautiful in cali. all this lush green and drizzling rain. then i crossed the mountains into nevada. well everything went to shit there and it never got better. 3 days of dry, repetitive terrain
i was quite impressed with nevada, not so much with wyoming: got stranded there for 3 days due to a total white out, and thought i was going to end up in the ditch for sure. turns out that traveling 80 in early January isn't the best of ideas.
I ended up stopping about once every 40 miles or so, although I did some night driving and there was a fair bit of rain, so I wasn't able to get 100% of the pictures taken.
The parts where I took pictures of me jumping were in Nevada, absolutely gorgeous setting.