Comments on: The Entire Trip in 3 1/3 Minutes

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:34:55 +0000

Hope you have a great trip. The one thing I’d probably do differently is roll with a more fuel-efficient vehicle. Good on you for figuring that one out ahead of time! Would enjoy getting the link once you’re rolling. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:33:47 +0000

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!

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:41:25 +0000

It was one of the best things I’ve done in my life and I think pretty much everyone should do whatever they can to do something similar as soon as possible. Seriously.

I’ve been trying to figure out whether/when I would do it again — my only concern is that it’ll feel trite or that there wouldn’t be much sense of discovery a second time around. But then again, I’m guessing in a few years my perceptions will have changed enough to make it fresh again. We’ll see how it goes.

Thanks for checking in!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:41:26 +0000

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.

By: telkontar

telkontar — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:38:39 +0000

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).

By: Tode

Tode — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:36:18 +0000

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.

By: uncle bill and aunt kay

uncle bill and aunt kay — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:01:18 +0000

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

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:57:13 +0000

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

By: MD

MD — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:26:09 +0000

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

By: Craig Dunn

Craig Dunn — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:17:15 +0000

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.