Five Years Ago Today

"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
09/10/2020 at 09:50 • Filed to: TQ West Coast

George, Taylor and I stood tall on the top of Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. Though we had a few more days to go, this was the “finale” of our first “Cheap Car Challenge” road trip.

Additionally, the write up for that trip was the first thing I wrote up on Oppo!

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Now, five years later, I have a video of that trip that I am happy to share.

A couple of you have seen the old one, which had some serious audio issues and problematic, if amusing, branding. With distance came some trip nostalgia, so I decided to do my best to get the audio tolerable and rebrand to our new “logo.”

Fair warning: With rare exception this is basically home movies with low-to-moderate production values. Watch at your own risk!

DISCUSSION (3)

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
09/10/2020 at 12:07

I’ll have to watch that last video later. The editing is remarkable as the source footage is definitely not perfect . Though wrangling with some crap footage and trying to make something watchable is a good way to get better at editing. Reminds me of all the effort that went into this:

And as you can see it was just that for some reason the camera settings were weird as this was shot a few months later with the same camera. I wanted to dip my toes into videography but unless I get some better equipment the final product will never quite be up to my standards.

That really is an incredible journey. I know you’ve been talking about doing it again. Any further progress on it?

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
09/10/2020 at 12:18

Thanks! I’ll take a look at those off hours too haha.

Yeah, not sure if you mean the 2021 trip or the stuff we did after this haha. W e did it again in 2017.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/tag/tq-overland

And again in 2019, though the video isn’t done for that

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/alcan-adventure-part-1-how-did-we-get-here-and-where-a-1838291381

We’re working on planning the 2021 trip but this whole pandemic is making that a little more tentative. I think we’re still planning on doing it in about a year, and given the current state of things looking at doing car camping as the main “feature” with maybe some light overlanding thrown in.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/what-to-do-for-our-2021-cheap-car-challenge-1844278491

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
09/10/2020 at 13:32

You’ve done a lot in 5 years!