Roads Less Traveled: Southern Maryland Countryside
Added a GoPro to our camera collection.... Mostly for riding, but I suppose we may use it here and there for other things as well. Here is the first try - enjoy a little stretch of country road in southern Maryland.
Roads Less Traveled: Sunset
Little baby clip of a sunset along our ride the other night complete with splattered bug on the camera lens :-). Funny how the power lines were tuned out in real life but are so extremely distracting in the recorded video.
Roads Less Traveled: The Cove on Cobb Island
Rode down to Cobb Island and found this gem. Lovely day for a ride and handn't been down this way in years. As we drove past it caught our eye so we decided to stop, how nice! Got to meet the artist who decorated, how fun is that? So, go and enjoy a visit too :-)
One thing I have learned - but not really learned, is that in order to capture those unique moments on the road you have to put the thing in place and turn it on all the time! Duh. So the 'not learned part' is that even though I know that I really don't do it all that much :-(, There have been four times I wish I had taken my own advice so you could be seeing video rather than reading line after line....
... have you even noticed that things rarely happen in isolation? That is to say it's not usually a single thing that triggers but multiple; all happening at just the 'right time'. So it is with the first example showing why I should just leave the thing on. We were following a particularly slow moving car and came to a point where we wanted to turn left - and so did he. Aha,we could keep on the cut back into the road we really wanted to ride ahead of him. So we pick up the pace a bit - just to make sure, and what is in the lane ahead on a sweeping left hander with thick woods on both sides (no viability until the last minute)? A giant snapping turtle. But wait, that's not really the funny part. It's the car blocking the on coming lane with three behind it, and... the guy trying to save our snappers life by shooing him off the road. The expression on his face was priceless as he tried to evaluate his options. Can you imagine the thoughts firing in his head? Fast moving motor cycle, lost fingers from jaws in front of me, do I jump in the ditch, do I jump back to my car? I wasn't actually going that fast so stopped and watched the rescue effort to completion. But... no video, only a memory of a very funny situation and a few words here.
