Tag Archive for 'Itinerary'

Walking across the USA – in time-lapse


(Guy Walks Across America on vimeo)

Crazy! There’s this guy who does a Forrest Gump and crosses the USA by foot! Well, not really. But it’s still a nicely done stop-motion shortfilm from… ehrm, it seems like it comes from a major jeans brand. Never mind. It makes us get itchy feet, and that’s still a true feeling. So, in case you wanna follow in the guy’s footsteps, wearing jeans or not, click here for a Goole Map of his journey.

by Alex | July 30, 2010 | 0 Comments
Inspiration, Travel and USA

The Green Chile Revelation

We’re lost. Somewhere between Santa Fe and… well, practically nothing (apart from the border of Utah maybe). We took one wrong turn and rolled on and on for about an hour and a half before we even knew we were no longer on our route. There’s shrubbery everywhere. As far as the eye can see. At least as far as the snow-covered mountains we can make out on the horizon. Shrubbery anyway. There’s no better way to express it. For half an eternity we feel we’re driving along shrubbery. There’s not much forest in the Carson National Forest, as far as we can tell.

We end up in El Rito. Long before we see the first buildings we can see the single white letter “E” painted on a mountain side in the distance. At first glance El Rito has not much to offer than a long winding main street with traditional adobe buildings lined up to the right and left. We make a stop at El Llano Bar. There are two vintage gas pumps in front of it that are – let’s say – in an advanced state of decay. The sign above the door is a little too big and the rivets that keep it in place are amazingly irregularly placed on the wall. It is crooked. At first glance one might take the rivets for bullet holes. They are not. Just rivets.

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by Alex | January 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Images, Research and Travel

Pyjamaparkplatzaction

in der Nacht zuvor aber nichts erwähnt. Wir geben dennoch klein bei. Weil, ist ja eh im Budgetrahmen. Aber Punkte für gute Führung gibt’s für das Hi-Way Inn nicht. Wir beschließen, einfach nicht mehr nach Atoka zu kommen und folgen einer neuen Route.

by Alex | October 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
Production, Research, Travel and USA

New companions: Navigon 4310 and GPS logger

Delivery service just rang! Making travel arrangements for our research trip sometimes feels like christmas, as we are getting little gift packages almost on a daily basis. This time it’s a Navigon 4310 max, so we are making sure not to lose our way in the USA. Thanks to the kind people at Navigon who provide this one for our trip. Usually the 4310 max comes with only European maps, but it seems as if they made an exception for us :)

Note the small label on the lower left corner… I bet this’ll help us find remote and secret access roads to Area 51! (Click to enlarge)

Speaking of GPS, navigation and geoinformation: To be able to tag the photos we are going to take, we just purchased an i-Blue 747 GPS Logger at everybody’s favorite online auction house. For a mere 45 dollars. The i-Blue 747 tracks itineraries and geoinformation that can be synchronized to Exif information of digital photos. I don’t know yet how (good) that’s gonna work out, but will keep you posted as soon as this little gadget gets dropped off… Like christmas, as I said.

by Esther | September 25, 2009 | 4 Comments
Travel and Equipment

Change of plans

CC: bdunnette

So we booked a flight to and from New York, but since we had a stopover in Washington, DC, we thought it would be a pretty good idea to get off there and start heading west. Well, the airline didn’t think so. After several hours of being put through hotlines and helpdesks in about every corner of the world their final word is No! They won’t let us get off at the stopover without having to cancel our return flight from New York to Frankfurt, too. I don’t get it.

Apparently United not only breaks guitars, but also our meticulously planned itinerary :) …

So, we have to take the plane to Newark, NJ. No big deal, you might say, costs us only a single night (and another 250 miles). But with Alex’s fear of flying it means having to convince him of boarding another plane within two hours, not just two months as he had hoped for.

by Esther | September 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
Research and Travel

12,062 12,329 miles

(Clik here for larger map @ Google Maps)

EDIT: Three days old and had to be changed already…

Our research itinerary is going to take us roughly 12,000 12,300 miles across and back the United States. That’s what it says so far. We are going to tweak it here or there over the next couple days. And we are going to refresh it while we are going along, that’s for sure. Kind of a “live” update to the actual route we are taking. After all, you never know where certain stories or encounters will take you at the end of the day.

We’ll give the go-ahead on October 5, 2009 in Washington, DC.
And will be crossing the finishing line on December 5 in New York City.

Kudos and a big thank you! for some great advice and recommendations go out to some of the more experienced USA travellers here and here… That’s not to say we won’t be open for any more advice. So, keep ‘em coming.

by Admin | September 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
Research, Travel and USA