05-27-2016, 12:36 AM | #221 |
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A couple of videos to put you in the driver's seat (or, out on the running board, as the case may be.)
Alaska Highway: https://youtu.be/sHhDXKKwNes Cassiar Highway: https://youtu.be/jh1gzmdFRjc Enjoy. I sure did.
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05-27-2016, 03:57 AM | #222 |
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Craig thanks have enjoyed ever 1 of your trips your story telling and photos are just wonderful
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Thank you for a very enjoyable trip ! Sure love your sense of adventure and great spirit ! Please take us along on another "Old Henry" trip into the unknown as soon as possible !!!
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05-27-2016, 08:02 AM | #224 |
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I'd like to say that there's a documentary on U tube about the construction of the Alaskan Hy way. Very interesting. Yes Thanks again.
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Whitehorse is where we first ordered poutaine.... in some 50's style diner. The trek from Skagway/Dyea to Whitehorse must have been quite a trek during the gold rush but now it is a smooth drive with little traffic.
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I believe a guy would be in trouble if he had to get off the road if he had car trouble !!!
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Thanks for another Great travelogue...!!!! I don't know how you managed to put up with all that "bumper to bumper" traffic on the Cassiar Hwy....
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Sheesh, both those highways are smoother than the streets in my neighborhood...
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Prof, thanks for sharing the videos. I even looked up Toad River on the satellite.
Did you encounter much traffic or trucks? If you don't mind an off-topic question, what was it about this video that got it over 1.3M views? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY389S_KUjs
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As for the video of starting Old Henry's engine after sitting 31 years, I'm probably biased, but, I think it is one of the best videos of an old engine starting up that I've ever seen. It has a nice long lead in and build up of the very minimal preparations for starting. It has a very emotional reaction to it actually starting, even as Gene Wilder had to bringing his monster to life in "Young Frankenstein", a very suspenseful restart after first start, and it has great close ups of the engine running on half a generator pulley and frayed fan belts slinging threads, amidst the cobwebs and debris from the ages that it sat. In three months it will be 10 years since starting that engine. In the interim, I've driven it 95,000 miles.
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How fitting. The last words of the video, "We're good to go"
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For us Canadians, Australians, New Zealander's, all of Europe thats 152,887 Kilometres and I grew up with imperial measurements and I still convert to Fahrenheit.
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O-H.... Great videos! Great music with them!... But one question.... At the begining of the first one..... Did you go around the little rotary the wrong way??..... Aren't we supposed to keep the center to our left??..... Mark
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I tried it the "right" way around first but the camera was too close to the sign so did it the other way 'round and it worked.
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Haha... You're always aiming to please..... Well focused video and something for the members down under...... Good job!!!.... Mark
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Thanks Henry! i could buy you lunch when you come out hear!
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