Memories of San Diego + How to Make Your Own Travel Videos

Welcome back!  I’d like to share some photos from a quick weekend in San Diego Cameron and I savored last August.  

As a bit of background, I am true Swiftie; I care not that the majority of my fellow T. Swift devotees don’t yet have their drivers licenses.  I love the girl and her music.  The 1989 album, however, had special meaning to me.  It was released in October 2014 and during a time I wasn’t exactly loving life.  I didn’t much care for my new job nor the five hour daily commute that accompanied it but the 1989 album was a spot of pure happiness and upbeat joy in my daily life.  The play counts for the entire album on my phone are in the thousands and, even now, I listen to many of the songs and am instantly transported back to the gentle rock of the Sounder train.  When she released the tour dates for the 1989 World Tour, I was among the first on the website to get my hands on some tickets to the Seattle show.  Regrettably, the Seattle show was slated to occur on August 8, 2015 and we already had plans.  As in plans to get married.  It was our wedding day so clearly the Seattle concert was out.  Not ready to give up that easily, we scanned the remainder of the tour dates looking for a city that we may wish to visit.  We landed on San Diego and the rest is history.  

As any PNW natives, we were allured by the sunny San Diego glory and enjoyed a lovely weekend wandering the downtown streets while eating our fill of fish tacos and crepes.  Cameron popped in for a haircut by a local barber and bought me a rose from a sketchy street vendor, we walked the waterfront, and I had a Kardashian fan girl moment at Nobu.  The Saturday night concert was everything I could have hoped it to be even though our seats weren’t quite as close as the last time we saw Taylor.  Her previous tour landed a spot in Tacoma which Dad was able to get us pit passes for.  I touched her hand multiple times that concert:

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Red Tour — no zoom, no filter

The morning after the concert we packed our bags and explored the area while planning how we could move their, as we do.  A final stop at the quintessentially California In-N-Out (Cameron’s first experience!) and we were back to Washington.  A quick trip and tons of fun!  I hope you enjoy the video and photos below.

If you have any weekend adventures or major vacations planned in the near future I highly suggest creating your own video montage of memories.  When you return home it takes about an hour to put one together.  I use iMovie, drop the clips in with no transitions and detach all of the audio and delete it to allow the song to be the only thing that plays.  I’ve found that quick clips about 4-6 seconds in size work the best.  

Although the creation process is fairly easy, I have learned a few things about the videography stage along the way.  The first is to always hold your phone landscape style!  This bit me on the entire first video I made (documenting our Hawaiian honeymoon) and the beginnings of this weekend getaway as well.  FLIP YOUR PHONE!  Trust me, the result will look much better on a horizontal screen.  The second bit of advice I can impart is to get yourselves in the shots.  By our trip to Bend, it was a lesson I had learned and the result is much more fun.  While I completely understand the inclination to document the world in front of you – it’s pretty spectacular after all – make sure to get yourself and your travel mates in the shots as well.  It’s fun to remember not only what you saw but who you saw it with.

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