VACATION - FALL '08'

We've been back for over a week and it's taken me this long to get a keepsake video made of our trip (it's down the page). I take lots of digital footage and have to first download it, then look through and sort it, then convert it to a format that can be used in Windows Movie Maker and then proceed to find the music to accompany it and finally put it all together. I love doing it, though. So, not only am I able to create some digital memories, but also have fun.
This vacation was 1-1/2 weeks long. We traveled around 2,000 miles total and that was probably too much. Especially when you consider that gas was the biggest ticket item by far. It's also too much time spent, well, driving. I think for future driving trips we'll see if we can stick to a 500 +/- miles radius from home. There's lots to see in this area and surrounding states within those miles - Yellowstone (550 miles), Grand Canyon (690 miles, but worth it), Mt. Rushmore, Devil's Tower, too much to mention in southern Utah, the same for Colorado. I think we are ideally situated to be able to have driving vacations that won't break the bank - at least at this point. If gas prices continue to spiral out of control, who knows.................
Enjoy the video. The music soundtrack starts a couple of frames into the video and it has a couple of spots where I transitioned the subject matter and soundtrack, so don't think it's over when you come to those quieter segments. It's 6 minutes and 11 seconds long.