Saturday, February 18, 2012

Videos

Unfortunately, the official C2C media man (that would be me) forgot that he wasn't only a photographer, but also a videographer. Thus, there are almost no videos from C2C. The main reason for the lack of videos, however, is that the only videos I could take were with my camera, which means the video quality is not ideal. Nevertheless, I've posted two of my videos below.


This first video (as is the next one) is from the morning of Day 5, as we rode from Akita to Tsuruoka. The video shows one of the calmer moments of the ride, when no cars were passing us. The video also shows you how Jody almost always stuck to the white line on the left side of the road, for safety's sake, whereas I generally rode slightly to Jody's right, so I could see where I was going and so I could protect "The Mule" from traffic, at least in theory.


I took this second video about a minute after I took the first one. This time you can see the kind of traffic we sometimes had to deal with. The truck that passes us is one of hundreds that did so on the ride, but this time the truck actually gave us some room, which wasn't always the case.

Note: I took both of my videos without the use of a helmet cam.