About a year ago we accepted Y Combinator funding -- one of the requirements was for us to relocate the company from State College, PA to San Francisco.

Since I had a car to bring out, I decided to drive the 3,000 or so odd miles with all of my belongings packed into my car. To make things interesting, I decided to stop every 40 miles and take a picture of myself in front of the car, in the same place.

I put this all together as a video:

This is still a first draft (I'm toying around with a couple songs I might want to use instead). Let me know what you think!

 


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Tom Robinson link
01/21/2008 13:01

Cool, I have a similar thing from my drive from Seattle to San Diego last summer, but frames taken every 30 seconds from inside the car:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4W7ZNmZ9VY

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Conrad link
01/21/2008 13:07

Awesome!

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Nathan Kaiser link
01/21/2008 13:52

Too cool.

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Mike link
01/21/2008 14:27

This is cool man, I love road trips.

There is a great song by Bright Eyes named 'I must belong somewhere' which I have always thought would be great for a montage. Check it out.

Mike

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matt brezina link
01/21/2008 20:23

Dude,

I love this. It turned out so well. I love the beaver hill parking lot nostalgia.

-m

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15 Tracks
01/22/2008 10:34

looks nice still...

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Leslie
01/24/2008 11:47

Awesome! I'm doing the drive this summer. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

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Leslie
01/24/2008 11:47

Awesome! I'm doing the drive this summer. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

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David link
01/24/2008 16:33

@Leslie:

My only big tip: Don't take I-80 during the winter months :)

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joyelle
01/29/2008 12:45

way too cool

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Kirk LaPointe
01/29/2008 21:52

Is anyone from Weebly support out there?
It is has been nine days now since I published my site and Weebly has put a placeholder of links on my URL that I wouldn't ever want to be associated with.
Someone please tell me Weebly can't or won't publish my site --- or do what you say you will.

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David link
01/31/2008 03:46

Hi Kirk,

It seems you didn't purchase your domain through Weebly. That's ok! You can still use it with Weebly. But you'll need to contact the person you registered it with (domain.com) to figure out how to switch your DNS settings to work with Weebly. There's more instructions on how to do that here:

http://www.weebly.com/support/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=4

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Rob Ashcroft link
02/04/2008 00:56

Sounds like the video is cool but... I can't see it at all. I'm using firefox on a Mac, should I be able to see a video image on the blog??

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Michael link
02/06/2008 11:22

I love road trips. The song was awesome too. Ive never visited San. Fran. but I want to.
Thanx,
Make more sites.

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Sarah
02/10/2008 15:52

This is well gud! propa impressive! me n my boyfriend r going to do the drive in a motor home. ne tips? :o)

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Sarah
02/10/2008 15:57

ha! acually we're doin it backwards! so we can end up in new york for christmas! we're givin ourselves three months to do it so what n where wud be the best or worst places to stop or things to do on the way?

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Chris Parkinson link
02/25/2008 03:52

The moveie/slideshow of the trip is really elegant and a great way to record long overland trips.

It is as elegant as weebly - which is by far the simplest web creator I have come across - and which derives its power from that simplicity. More power to you and all success.

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