Loved it!!

The cinematography is a million times better than any Ken Burns piece. Nice representation of the [Great] Smoky Mtns, but not near enough Telkontar shown overall.
It appeared that the music drove the pacing rather than the subject driving the soundtrack. John Williams has the proper approach to soundtracks, I believe, so the director’s cut may want to address the soundtrack.
As a representatiion and summation, I think it hits the mark and was a satisfying 3 1/3 minutes of my life. Better than Cats.

Very entertaining and epic in scope, just wish it could have been 7 minutes so I could identify some more of the photos. Loved the irony in the last shot.
papa

Excellent. Thanks for sharing views of the country we see or think about too rarely.

WOW! had no idea you were up for such a huge adventure! It must have been a fabulous experience-the photos tell all and are really super. We kept looking for the San rafael Swell and the Black Box Canyon that Rod Swasey jumped over on his horse. Their cabin is supposedly still standing! If you ever are in the neighborhood stop in and say hi.

With Love
BMD y KBD and Mike

For Heavens sake.. let someone know your about to take on an adventure so we can follow …. next time. Nice job and i’m jealous… suffering from a little wanderlust myself.

Didn’t Mr. Swasey jump over the canyon without his horse? DIfficult parsing of the sentence: Jumped with his horse; landed without horse.
Jumped over the canyon on his horse but a la Archimedes, the horse never reached the finish line.
Or zen-like: The horse reached the finish line, but did not cross the finish line (the actual AAU rule on track meet races).
I did a search this weekend to find what canyon Rod jumped. It’s not on Wikipedia and he’s not named in relation to Butch or to the Hole-in-the-Wall (which was not a single gang, but was like a pirate port).

I found your blog on one of your posts on Road Trip America. It has been a pleasure reading it. Thank you for sharing everything.

Now that the trip has been over for a while I was wondering what your reflections on the trip have been like. Do you regret it at all? Would you ever do it again someday? Would you recommend it to anyone else that was interested?

Thanks again for sharing this blog with everyone.

I found your site while Googling “cross country road trip maps” and have really enjoyed checking this out. It’s actually been helpful to me planning my own big impending journey. My idea is to set out at the beginning of September, by myself, in my Prius with a little teardrop trailer, photographing my way across the country and back. Nice to see I’m not the only one crazy enough to do this! I’ll very likely create a photo blog for my trip — if you’re interested, I’ll send you the link when the time comes.

Thanks for sharing your trip!