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    The Perils of Drone Photography

    I’ve been using a drone to supplement my overlanding photography over the past few years, and while I knew there were various pitfalls one could encounter when using a drone to get a different (and sometimes spectacular) perspective of various trails, I never saw this coming… Please excuse...
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    Arctic Ocean

    El-Dracho, it was an inflatable kayak that we planned to use at Tuktoyuktuk to see Pingo Canadian Landmark. Unfortunately, the day we were there the winds were pretty strong and we didn’t feel it was safe to take it out. My significant other later got to use it in Banff National Park, so she was...
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    Arctic Ocean

    I finally got around to taking a longish (11,000 miles) road trip that I’d been wanting to do for 40 years: Virginia to the Arctic Ocean and back, with a side trip through Alaska so I could visit my 50th state. Mostly decent weather, better roads than expected, and lots of mosquitoes. :relaxed:
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    Counting down the weeks until we take №5 from from Virginia to Canada to the Arctic Ocean to...

    Counting down the weeks until we take №5 from from Virginia to Canada to the Arctic Ocean to Alaska and then back home again. I’ve been wanting to do this trip for me entire life but never had the time until I retired.
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    Drones Pics and Videos

    A couple from various road trips over the last few years… I honestly think it’s one of the best document-my-road-trip purchases I’ve ever made.
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    Photography

    №5 at La Veta Pass, Colorado last week as we were heading back East after a couple of days in the San Luis Valley.
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    Definition of Overlanding

    What does "overlanding" mean? Why, I think the answer is obvious: it's building a rig that could travel though deepest Africa during the worst of conditions and driving said rig between Holiday Inns as you travel across your chosen continent. That's certainly the way I have always interpreted it.
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    Photography

    Recreated the ending scene of Cast Away using DJI Mavic Mini on our recently overland trip from Virginia to Colorado. One of my favorite movies. :blush:
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    Canada 2021 Boarder Crossing

    I try to think of all the money I'm saving by not being able to travel anywhere. Newfoundland/Labrador is on my road trip Wish List.
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    Anxiously awaiting the end of this damned plague and chance hit the road again. Meanwhile, I'm...

    Anxiously awaiting the end of this damned plague and chance hit the road again. Meanwhile, I'm contemplating a 2" lift for Jeep №5 (a JL Sahara).
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    Lets See Some Drone Shots

    I posted a few of these before on this site, so I hope it's not a breach of etiquette to post them again, but here's a few from a cross-country trip we took last September. It was new Mavic Mini and I'd never used a drone before.
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    Virginian in Colorado and Utah

    @samuraj, My significant other demanded I let her drive down Shafer Trail, so I gave up the diver seat. She cringed and cried the entire way down (and I recorded the whole thing on video). :)
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    Virginian in Colorado and Utah

    Sharing a few images from our recent overland trip from Virginia to Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. I added a small drone to my photographic arsenal days before the trip, but I used it more as a flying selfie stick than the movie camera that it is. Interestingly, I found myself reaching for my...
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    Holiday Road 2020

    Our planned road-trip guest from England just had her flight cancelled due to COVID, so we're modifying our flight plan a bit to spend a bit more time in Utah.
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    Holiday Road 2020

    Heading West this summer to do, hopefully, a couple of "Jeep trails" in Colorado and Utah while hitting national parks along the way. I love doing these types of adventures with folks who might not have done this sort of thing very often, so the fact that my fellow adventurers this time 'round...