Video added to TexasHighwayMan.com

A couple of days ago, I mentioned an “exciting” new addition that I was working on for my website.  Well, “exciting” might have been a bit of an overstatement, but it’s an addition I’ve wanted to make for a while now.  That addition is videos of all the area freeways.  I recently purchased a suction-cup camera mount for the windshield and, after some test runs, completed the first two videos (I-10 West inbound and outbound) earlier this week.  Within the next couple of months, I hope to have all the city’s freeways filmed and posted.  These will replace the so-called “driver’s view” pics that I had started to do.  Shooting, editing, and posting the videos is a lot easier than a plethora of photos, so hopefully it will be easier for me to get the initial batch completed and also to keep them updated than it was going the photo route.

In addition, I’m going to use the videos to update my exit lists (much easier to do from a video than trying to write them down at 65 mph <g>) and also to build the new lane schematics (see the previous parenthetical note).  I hope to get those done in conjunction with each video, although I haven’t done I-10’s yet.

To keep the clips within the YouTube guidelines (and to make them a little more interesting), the playback will be at double-speed (or even 4x for the longest ones.)  I opted not to put a soundtrack over them; everyone has their idea of perfect “driving music”, so crank-up whatever you like to listen to when viewing them!