Ride With Us To Texas, Won’t You?
After mentioning our near cross-country road trip last week, did you find yourself wondering how we entertained ourselves for over forty hours of driving? Well, we filmed a lot of it with our trusty Flip video camera. And we spent this past weekend not in the car (hootie hoo!), but trimming down all that footage into a little musical montage video of our road-trip-on-steroids.
For those curious enough to take the journey with us, we can promise you’ll see:
- Some less than healthy drive-thru decisions
- A bit of behind the wheel dancing
- Grade A nerd behavior in the form of a geographic-tastic driving game
- Sherry in bed with another woman
- Obligatory Burger footage
- Absolutely zero footage of Sherry driving (because it never happened)
- Fast-food inspired decorating ideas (we didn’t say they’re good)
- Sherry with her hair down (yes, for all you why-don’t-you-lose-the-ponytail peeps)
- Visiting cultural attractions – scratch that, visiting a Pottery Barn Outlet
- A preview of our adventures with the Bowers and my cousin’s wedding, which we’ll share more of soon.
So, without further ado, please enjoy the virtual road trip below (or watch it directly on Vimeo)…
And while we’re on the subject, tell us where we can get a sneak peek at some of your summer travels. Got any good road trip stories to share? Photos posted somewhere to view? If anyone else has iMovied a little road trip video, we’d love to see it. Long live long drives!
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You guys are just way too freaking cute! Love the video “ride along” for your road trip.
Hi John and Sherry!
My husband and I are taking a road trip from Minneapolis to Atlanta this coming week and I was pleasantly surprised to see that you stopped in Nashville, which is our day 2 stop! Thanks for the great hotel idea!
I have a question, how far is the hotel from Music Street?
Love the Blog! Keep up the great work!
Hey Lauren,
Hotel Preston was probably around 15-20 minutes from Music Row. It was right by the airport if that helps. Good luck!
xo,
s
I wasn’t sure if I’d be interested in 15-minutes of road trip footage, but I watched and enjoyed the whole thing. Great editing and soundtrack. Totally adorable!
Hey Lauren, hopefully you will read this post. I live in Nashville and thought you might want to know about another hotel that is equally cool, but closer to downtown Nashville. Hotel Indigo is a boutique hotel on West End, not far from downtown and Music Row. It is close to Vanderbilt, food and Centennial Park too. Since I live in Nashville, I’m not sure about prices. Have fun in Nashvegas!
Me and my fiance (grammar anyone??) are moving his things from Memphis to LA this weekend and we wanted to do a video but wasnt sure about the hassle. But yours was great and I think we’ll DEFINITELY do one now… We are looking forward to 24 hours one-way. Besides the license plate game, my fav is the ABC game. You just compete to find all of the letters of the alphabet from A to Z using signs, license plates, ads on trucks anything. There are all kinds of rules and it gets pretty competitive (especially when looking for Q and Z)! Glad I found your video – happy traveling!
Loved the video – you guys are so natural and charming on camera…I won’t be surprised at all when you get your own TV show.
But I’m really writing to ask you what kind of point-and-shoot camera you use for those still photos? Really nice shots…I’m looking for a new digital camera and would love your referral/recommendation.
-Billy
Hey Billy,
It’s a Canon Powershot. We love it because it’s relatively cheap and super small and easy to tote around- plus it takes some pretty good pictures! Hope it helps.
xo,
s
That was a lot of fun to watch. Seems like you all had a really good time!
your 15 min. video flew by. yall are too cute and too clever and too natural for words. burger too.
I was SO excited to see this video!! I moved from NOVA (but I am a native Richmond-er) to Austin, TX last month and was so excited to see my exact drive over again! I did it with my mom and we had a blast! So glad to see that you guys did too! Keep up the good work and thanks for the pics:)
I just love ya’ll! If ya’ll ;) stayed at the La Quinta in Bham, you were like 2 minutes from my house! Wish I had known. Anyway, hope you enjoyed our brand of southern hospitality (and Vulcans hot tushka) and I am totally embedding your trip to my blog bc you were here and bc somehow you made that roadtrip footage incredibly entertaining! Thanks for that. ~Brook
I love, love, love the song you have playing in the background. I went to the site you listed to find it, but I didn’t have any luck. I also tried Shazam on my iPhone to see if it would tell me the name of the song but again, no luck. Could you let me know the title of the song? It’s so happy and upbeat.
Thanks for posting your video!
Hey Tracy,
It’s called “I don’t live here” by Ben Drake. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
I finally got around to seeing the video. I loved it. I especially enjoyed the Nashville parts as it is our home and i’m glad to see people enjoying our beautiful city.
I love the video – super cute and you made the longest road trip ever very exciting.
P.S. Did John drive the entire time? Wow, my hubby and I may not have made it alive with him driving the entire way :)
Hey Melissa,
I have only driven for 6 months of my life. Crazy, eh? I moved to NYC for college right after getting my license (and there’s no need to drive there with the subway and all that). Because I stayed there for over 6 years without driving I got a little rusty. Then we moved to Virginia and I slowly started to drive here and there (I have always had a license, I just rarely actually drive). But since we only have one car and John uses it most of the time he’s still the primary driver (we love being a one car household and save tons of money since I work from home and don’t need one on a daily basis). I always say I’d be happy to drive to relieve John on road trips but we always both say soon and go back to singing/dancing/license plate spotting and before we know it we’re at our destination. Maybe next time…
xo,
s
John and Sherry, I just love the video! In the coming seven weeks, my fiance will return from a six month deployment in Iraq, we’ll be getting married and then quickly pack up and head east to Virginia! We’re being transferred from Hill AFB in Salt Lake City, UT to Langley AFB in Hampton, VA.
We’re really excited about our cross-country drive, and your video just reinforced that feeling for us. Brian and I love your blog and I have been gleaning every bit of VA information I can from it in preparation of our move. Thank you for sharing all your ideas with us, and we look forward to sharing the great state of VA with you!
Good luck with your big Virginia move! We’re wishing you lots of fun along the way!
xo,
s
Hey there! I wanted to give you props on your video editing skills! Although the sound of being in a car for 41 hours makes me a little sick, you seemed to make it quite entertaining. I saw that you use a Flip camera and we just got one! What program do you use to edit your videos? We need something like it…simple? I hope? Please let me know!
Hey Stacy,
We’ve been doing all of our video editing in iMovie 09. It’s not too hard, but it does take a while (for example, editing this video took about six hours or so from start to finish with titles and fades and music and paring down all of our hours and hours of footage). When it comes to finding music, we’ve been using http://www.creativecommons.org to search for free songs. You can use their search feature to access artists on Jamendo who make their music available for use, and most just ask that you give them credit. Hope that helps!
xo,
s
Too, too, TOO much fun! I love road trips…and I love home videos…and I love photo montages…and I love most of all – ACTION SHOTS :)
You must send me those shots to share on the Action! Shot Revolution…the masses are craving a follow up to your honeymoon post!!
PS – beautiful wedding :)
You guys are so cute! Ah, I want a little Burger, I don’t the Royal Highness (a.k.a our kitteh furbabeh) (eek, or our landlord for that matter) would agree :(
Sherry your hair looks so adorable when it’s out, I request more photos with it au natural. And John, you’re rockin’ the deviators, awesome ;)
Anyways, just wanted to drop by and share some love: <3
You've totally inspired me to do my own video documentation when summer finally rolls around in the southern hemisphere (in New Zealand it's kind of a "blink and you'll miss it" between all the happy grass growing rain.. hmmph.
we actually moved from VA to houston, but just had our wedding in Jan in Baltimore. we road tripped like you guys, for our wedding, never thought to make a video though. but we stayed at that same la quinta :-) whataburger is tasty :-D and it’s always raining in birmingham lol thanks for posting it made me reminisce about our road trip from houston to va and to baltimore then back :-D so exciting being newlyweds
OMGoodness!!
I absolutely LOVED your video. My husband and I drove from SD to AZ for a cousin’s wedding past weekend and I thought that was rough. I’m so thankful for it only being 8 hrs instead of 40 :]
What a great video! One of you is quite handy with all the video editing!
I just have to say I was super excited to recognize Vulcan Hill before you even panned to the “big man”! I have some friends that live in Bham and we’ve taken some great photos from that park ourselves!
Enjoy your weekend!
Did you really unpack when you got home… like your suitcases of clothing or clean out the car? I would have crashed completely after that trip… suitcases would have waited!
GREAT video
Hey Katie,
Yup, we’re crazy. We like to unpack everything before rolling into bed because then when we wake up we don’t have a big pile of to-do’s waiting for us. We know it’s weird but it’s so nice to sleep in the next day (if it’s a Sunday) and it even seems to make Monday mornings easier…
xo,
s
I LOVED this documentary or your road trip. You both are Super Creative AND Funny!! (not to mention cute and adorable, especially Hamburger)
Hi Guys
I am from South Africa and stumbled onto your blog about a week ago- I am now officially hooked/ addicted/ bonkers over your blog. Love it to bits.
This video had me very nostalgic- three years ago a friend and I road trip from Aspen, Colorado to Wilmington, North Carolina. Felt like I was reliving that trip as I watched your video as we also drove through some of those states.
Keep up inspiring people.
XXX
Sherry,
Thought 1- I LOVE love love love LOVE your hair down!
Thought 2- What would you say is the most valuable advice you can give someone about traveling with a dog? My fiance and I have a 30lb french bulldog and we never go anywhere (long term) anymore because we don’t want to travel/vacation without him.
Thanks!
Jazmine
Our advice would just be to see what works and stick with it. For us that means bringing his crate since it’s Burger’s home away from home, so he always feels more relaxed and less stressed to travel when it’s with us. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
I agree with the others who said they love Sherry’s hair down! So pretty. Also looked very nice in the French braid. :)
Very fun video, guys!
Ok, so I know I’m about a year late on this, but this video totally made my day! I live in Fork Union, work in Charlottesville, grew up in Knoxville, went to college in Nashville and married a man from Dallas.
Hey Guys,
Just thought i’d drop you a line to let you know you’re totally awesome!!! I love love your blog-it’s inspired me heaps and so far i’ve re-done half my house!!!