Taken on the Road

By Joel Comm January 26, 2004 1 Comment   

Today’s Family First Site is one that has an interesting twist to it. If you were to ask someone how far it is across the United States, they would probably answer three thousand miles, or something like that. But if you were to ask the main participant behind the site today, his answer would be slightly different.

The site is called Taken on the Road, and is a site that tells about one man’s drive across the United States. His name is Matt Frondorf, and he started his trip in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, and ended it in the sunset of the Golden Gate Bridge. He decided to make a photographic record of his trip, and it is what is on the site. He took one picture a mile, for EVERY mile of his trip. He wound up with 3,304 pictures. Each one was taken at one-mile increments, and captured whatever was on the side of the road at the time. Here you can relive the trip with him, thanks to the latest Internet technology.

Enjoy your stop here. This is a most interesting site, and an interesting look at what makes up our country.

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/onTheRoad/

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One Comments to “Taken on the Road”
  1. Tom says:
    January 27, 2004 at 10:09 am
    This reminded me of a trip we took as a family. In the summer of 2001, we took 8 weeks to travel from our home (at that time just south of Boston) to several wetern states and back, visiting many national parks and monuments. We spent a lot of time on the road...many more than this photographer. Because of our zig-zag route, we added 13,000 miles to the van. We have seen some of the places photographed, and it brought back memories. You can scroll through the pictures in several ways. There are arrows that let you scroll through the pictures, or you can click on the route map to get to a particular area. And you can see pictures every mile, every 25 miles, or every 100 miles. Finally, you can see a larger version and send it as an e-postcard by clicking on the thumbnail. In my opinion, the enlarged picture is a bit small. I did not try the e-postcard mechanism.
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