Travel with a Wiseguy on YouTube
Since my last blog post I have released four videos: Ohio Ghost Towns Parts 1 and 2, Hiking to the Wichita State Plane Crash Site, and a drone video compilation from my trip on US Route 89.
It was a lot of fun to go back home to southern Ohio and explore with my brother some of the places where we grew up. As a kid you really have no idea of the history around you and don’t appreciate it until much later in life. I am hoping to do some more exploring the next time I’m “home”.
The video about the WSU plane crash site hike seemed to really connect with a lot of people. Besides it being one of the more popular videos I’ve released, I’ve received a bunch of nice messages either as comments on the video or personal ones from people who’ve been to the site, planned on going, or didn’t even know it existed. I’m glad I was able to do it and happy so many people found the video informative.
The drone footage from US Route 89 is just the first of several videos I will be releasing about my 1800 mile trek from Canada to Mexico. I think it shows how spectacular some of the areas US 89 traverses, even though the video doesn’t do it justice from experiencing the real thing.
So, since you clicked on this blog, and have continued reading this far, you must be somewhat interested in what I am doing with these videos. For those of you diehards (that I can probably count on one hand haha), here are a bunch of videos I have already filmed this summer and plan on releasing throughout the fall. With my job getting busy, I won’t have as much time to travel in the next few months and had to get ahead of the game to keep my streak of releasing a new video each week. Here are videos, in no particular order, that I hope to put out in the next 3-4 months …
--Individual US Route 89 videos on Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona – similar to what I did for Route 66 last year. Montana’s video is done and will be released Thursday (15 minutes long).
--In conjunction with the Wyoming
and Utah videos, I’ll be releasing other videos that are “off shoots” from US
89 in those states. For the Wyoming
video, I’ll put links on the main video for a ghost town in the Grand Tetons
and a hike I did in the southern part of the state. For Utah, I explored (might have broken in)
Little Hollywood in Kanab. These videos
will be different than my normal videos – more of a raw footage type thing.
--I’m going to put together a video
of driving through both Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks.
--I have two more Kansas ghost town
videos (parts 5 and 6).
--On my road trip I explored lots
of ghost towns along the way. I am
hoping to put together videos of them in Montana (2 videos), Utah (1 video),
and Arizona (2 videos).
--I also took a day and explored
some Colorado ghost towns after my hike to the WSU plane crash site.
--From way back to last year, when
I road tripped on Route 66, I took photos of every town welcome sign I could
find. I thought this might be a unique
video for fans of the Mother Road.
--I have one more Ohio ghost town
video filmed. Not sure how happy I was
with it, but maybe when I start to edit it’ll come together.
--I filmed drone videos of the Kansas
towns of Pratt (population 6,703) and Holton (population 3,237) much like I did
for Wichita. If I get motivated, I would
like to release those. I had a plan to do
a whole bunch of cities I visited, but I would be very tired in the evenings
and want to sleep instead of flying a drone around in the dark. But I think the Pratt video will be pretty
cool.
I have three other videos I would like to try and film this fall. I have been thinking about a video about Wichita’s Union Terminal Station. There is a lot of history there and you can explore everything in the area very easily. As a racing fan, I was thinking it would be fun to go on a weekend of traveling to different small town dirt racetracks. Maybe a 3 day weekend type thing if I can figure out the schedule. The other video I want to do is the top-10 smallest towns in Oklahoma. The one I did of Kansas was very enjoyable for me, and it is one of the most popular videos (and the longest) I’ve released. In fact, I would like to do two states per year. I could almost finish the project by the time I turn 70!
As for the YouTube channel, I’m right at 700 subscribers (need 1000 to monetize). Last week it got over 3,800 views – which is the best week since I started it in the summer of 2020.
Anyways, there’s the “way too much info” update about my travels and YouTube channel. Thanks for the support!
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