Sunset on the I-24 (GoPro Time-Lapse)

It took all the way until Day 15 to capture a Sunset on my cross country GoPro Time Lapse.  All previous days I was facing due East, or it was overcast, or some other factor.

It was a great ride on the I-24 leaving Nashville, TN riding to St. Louis, MO.  Cool weather and not a lot of traffic.

A highlight was crossing over the Ohio River on the Interstate 24 Bridge (5,623 ft.) from Kentucky into Illinois and looking to the West and seeing the sunset from there.

Leaving Florida on Day 13 I went through 6 rain storms.  All brief.  This one I had my helmet cam running and caught pretty good.

You can see cars and trucks turning on their emergency lights and pulling off the road.

I figured that the best thing to do was to ride through it as fast as I could… which was still pretty slow - I think I want all the way down to 2nd gear.

I did not have any of my rain gear on, and by the end of the 2 and a half minutes of rain I was completely soaked.

Kent and Troy hit this same storm as they passed through a bit later in the day, but they had pulled off and got under some shelter until it passed.

US Highway 129 “Tail of the Dragon” (Preview Video)

Here is a quick edit of some of my US Highway 129 or “Trail of the Dragon” video.

Thanks to Kent/Troy for encouraging me to mount the camera facing back.  After reviewing the footage I wish I had mounted my other camera down low or tried a view more angles… to have a nice selection to mix together.

It was probably best that I did not mount it low as a few times I went so far low-side that I was scraping metal on the pavement.

This was so much fun to ride.

Tail of the Dragon

Kent and I only counted 317 turns, so we had to ride it a 2nd and 3rd time to be sure.  Yup, 318 turns in 11 miles.

It sure was fun.

I am going to be posting a new type of update to the site and I am calling it “Friends of the Bike”.

I’ve learned something on this trip.  If you ride a bright orange Harley or have a camera attached to your helmet, strangers have no problem talking to you and asking you about your bike or why you have some goofy thing on your helmet.

Most people want to know where I got the camera and can they do “X” with it.  I tell them to go to http://gopro.com/ to check it out - lots of times I will be at a stop light or gas station so not much time.  If I can I will tell them about it a bit more.

Other just ask “what are you doing?” and “What is ‘4corners’” (I have the blog address on my bike).

I think it’s great meeting people.  Some of them take photos of me (I wish I was telling them all to e-mail them to me so I could post them: info@ if you read this (ex: guy in Toronto)), and others take photos of themselves with the bike, and some with me.

I am trying to get photos with my own camera and post them here.  So that is what you will see coming up.

We experienced a crash.  But don’t worry, none of us were involved in the crash - we just witnessed it… and so did my GoPro camera mounted on my helmet.

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Just after riding into Sanria Canada from Michigan (Day 5) we were pulling in to get dinner and I heard a crash behind me.

Fearing it was Kent I whipped my head around and the GoPro camera that was mounted on my helmet captured the car sliding into the grass, losing a tire (completely ripped from the axle), and then crashing into a sign.

The car just missed the power/telephone pole.

We never got the full story, there were no other vehicles involved.  It sounds like the kid ran into the curb are the parking lot entrance and it sent him for a spin.

I am glad the kid was unharmed and that he didn’t hit any of us or anyone else.

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The kid says: “Dad, it wasn’t my fault!”

Kent says: “If you have an accident with no other drivers/cars involved then it’s your fault.”

What is more awesome than a Rainbow? A Double Rainbow.

What is more awesome than a Double Rainbow? A Rainbow + A Lightning Strike!

This is what my GoPro HERO camera (helmet mounted) captured as I rode the Blue Water Bridge from Michigan to Canada on Friday (Day 5).

The time-lapse of our Ortega Highway ride last Saturday.