Alaska Road Trip - Day 1: Pecatonica Illinois to Casselton North Dakota

On day 1 of our road trip to Alaska, we leave home in Pecatonica Illinois and head northwest!
After driving 595 miles, crossing Wisconsin and Minnesota, we arrive at our first overnight stop, the "Governors' RV Park" in Casselton North Dakota.

[@bski553]

Looking forward to watching this series! Thanks for sharing and glad you all had a blast!

[@lorianmartinemery2534]

Can I make one suggestion? Can you slow down your fast forwarding so we can see what it is you see. Sometimes you go so fast it's sort of like a blur!

[@BigRamatha]

Sure can, thanks for the feedback! Trying to balance overall video length. The hyperlapse drive sequences here condense 10 hours of driving into 20 minutes of video. Didn't think people would want to watch 20 minutes of just driving, so I sped those parts up (this one would have been over 30 minutes long if I hadn't!). In later videos there are hyperlapse sequences of hiking that are NOT sped up (the driving parts still are). Day 4 is a good example of that. Check it out and let me know if you'd prefer the driving to be the same speed as the hiking... I've already edited and uploaded the 1st 14 days, still have 16 more left to edit, so I can try and slow it down on the remaining days a little.

[@BigRamatha]

P.S. the drive sequences are sped up by 400%, so if you set your playback speed to 0.25x, that should slow it down to the originally recorded speed.

[@lorianmartinemery2534]

@@BigRamatha sometimes it would be cool to see as you approach wildlife, chatter in the car is cool. Longer length videos isn't so bad...you go to a lot of cool places and you see lots of different scenery. Love the information you share about places and landmarks!! ❤ it would be cool to see the driving slowed down just to see what areas are like. I don't mind the hiking to be slowed down hearing reactions to areas live...is cool. You have an awesome family! Love more comments from those back seat drivers!! 😉😁 ❤ Love to see your daughters photos!

[@BigRamatha]

Thanks again for the suggestions! This is our first time attempting to do videos like this, so looking to improve them in the future. I may release "extended cuts" of these. ;) I do try and slow it down as we approach wildlife, when the wildlife is visible on the dash cam at least, sometimes it isn't. I do wish I had captured more wildlife on video, but I was more focused on still photography when we came across wildlife. Check out Day 13 when it releases today at noon! I slow it down and freeze frame on a moose that we thought we missed capturing completely... It ran into the woods before we could snap pictures, but it showed up for just a few frames in the drive video. When we capture photos but not video, I try to splice in a photo or 2. Sometimes we just see the wildlife but aren't lucky enough to get video or photos. I'd love to hear more from those back seat drivers too! They were a little camera shy, and sometimes didn't speak up enough to be heard in the video, but they get a little more vocal later in the trip. They were pretty quiet off camera too, usually had their headphones on. :P