A Year's Worth of Travel in Less Than 90 Seconds

Let's take a second to be really honest about travel.  Most people have dreams of leaving their homeland.  Most people have a list of foreign places they want to see.

Most people don't want to designate a bunch of time to seeing your photos or hearing all your stories.  There could be a lot of reasons for this.  People don't know where to begin and it can be really hard to relate.  No hurt feelings intended; those are just the facts.

In honor of those facts of life, I've compiled a 90 second video of photos from our travels.  This particular video is of all the "party photos" we took of ourselves.  You know, heads squished together, one arm outstretched holding the camera.  It started because we were often by ourselves when we traveled.  Two is not the best number for taking photos, so we started turning the camera on both of us simultaneously.  It slowly evolved into a meme in our personal lives and we made sure to get one in front of places worth photographing.

Anytime other travelers would see us do this, they'd offer to take our photo for us.  We'd sometimes oblige, but often we found ourselves explaining that, "It's just something funny we do."  People never really got it, and for good reason.  When you take these photos, you can hardly see what it is that's so awesome in the background.  But for us, having taken plenty of photos of the awesome things/places themselves, that was just the point.

I'm particularly happy that Vimeo chose that flattering shot for the video's cover and that I messed up the edit for the end of the music.  Practice is needed, but I hope you enjoy it.