4 Corners Tour USA 2011
Friends of the Bike

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.

My Tech for the Tour

As I am going through and doing my first test pack (yes, with only about 28 hours left til our wheels are on the pavement) I thought I might list out the tech gear I am packing.

  • iPhone 4 (32GB)
  • iPhone 1st Gen (16GB) (as an iPod)
  • iPhone 1st Gen (8GB) (as an iPod)
  • iPad (64GB)
  • MacBookPro 15” (480GB SSD + 750GB HD - using OWC Data Doubler)
  • 2 x GoPro HERO HD Cameras (+ too many accessories - Thanks to GoPro for being a sponsor!)
  • Canon S95 Point-and-shoot
  • Canon 60D DSLR (lens: 18-135mm, 50mm, 28mm)
  • Panasonic HDC-SD5 Digital Camcorder
  • 4 x 32GB SDHC
  • 2 x 16GB SDHC
  • 8GB Eye-Fi SDHC
  • 13” MacBook Air (480GB SSD - Thanks to Other World Computing for being a sponsor!)
  • 3 x 1TB Guardian MAXimus mini (1TB+1TB RAID-1 Mirrored redundant external storage - Thanks to Other World Computing for being a sponsor!)

I am sure I am forgetting something… now I just have to find a place for all the above to be organized and available when I need it.  Right now I just have this mess: