Grand US Tour 2019
Hello! Long time no see. As usual I’m late in creating and posting our travel videos and this one is no different. We went to the US last June 2019 and stayed there for three weeks which is our longest vacation ever. I’ve already decided on the music to use before even going on the trip so music selection wasn’t a problem this time around. The problem though is that it wasn’t long enough and I’m too lazy to change my mind already so I had to make do. Even if I lost a lot of footage from my Osmo Pocket (really beautiful motionlapse shots) and didn’t take a lot of videos at the last leg of our trip (compensated by photos), the music was just too short.
The trip had four (four!!!) legs as we had stops at LA, Orlando, Virginia and New York. The crazy schedule and logistics were a concern going in and I don’t think we would have survived if it weren’t for the families that took us in and accommodated us on majority of the trip. This is a first for us as we’re not used to having relatives with us on our out of the country trips. We actually saved a significant amount on food, accommodations and transportation and therefore had more money to burn at Disney World. I included as many videos and photos of them as our token appreciation for the help and hospitality they gave us there.
Speaking of the video, I shot it primarily with an iPhone 8 Plus and a DJI Osmo Pocket but I lost all the videos in the Osmo Pocket so I was left with the videos on the 8 Plus. The shots are a bit shaky as I didn’t bring a gimbal or a selfie stick so the quality is actually a step down from my previous videos. I also got the photo services in Disney and Universal because I wanted to savor the place so that resulted in less videos overall and I was quite tired already during the last leg of the trip so even less videos there.
Lesson learned in this trip is that I need to account for our overall tiredness and stress levels when on a long trip with multiple stops. We need to have more rest days or low activity level days to balance out the hectic ones. Hopefully I’ll remember this once we start traveling again post Covid 19.
Anyway, here’s the video. Happy New Year everyone!
