Last summer I took a trip to the east coast of Samal. I was trying to find the road that goes south all along the coast. What I discovered, though, is that the road only goes down part way and then heads inland. There is no road all along the east coast.
We started our road trip in Babak and then went north up to visit the bat caves. After the caves, we continued north up to the new marina and then down the east coast. The road goes along the coast until Canibad. The road drifts inland and after a short time I couldn’t see the water anymore. After heading inland, we got lost for a while because some of the intersections have no signs and the map I had really didn’t help.
After driving around for a while, we asked some of the local people which way back to Penaplata. They gave us directions and we made it to Penapata and then we rode down to Kuputian. We stayed the night there on the beach in a tree house. During the night, there was an amazing wind and rain storm which caused the tree to sway in the wind. The following day, we took a bangka to visit Talikud Island and look around. These are stories for another day.
I’ve been working on transferring video from my mini DVD to a hard drive so it can be edited in iMovie. I use Flickr and they have a 90 second limit on video uploads. I’ve decided to keep my video posts to this time limit as I like Flickr and the short time helps me decide what is important to show.
Update: I’ve switched to Vimeo to see how that works. I tried to update SPCShelter and was unsuccessful. Because of this, I had to revert to a backup from two weeks ago and lost two weeks of data.
Update II 3/23/11 I’ve converted all my videos to flv and now have them self hosted.
Hi Kevin – guess you lost all the comments, huh?
I’ve seen Vimeo used on a couple of sites. What do you think of it?
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Randy,
I thought I had done every thing right but the site was gone. My host restored it but not everything. Now that I have more time, I want to do more with the site so I’ll take some risks. Like they say, live and learn.
I like Vimeo. The quality is often better than youtube. Youtube has a much larger following though. I want to start posting a video every Monday and I thing the Flickr 90 second video will not be enough time for some of my videos. I have the free account there now and I may upgrade to a paid account.
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