21st Century Vid on a 19th Century Schedule

Charles

As Casey Gill sets out to follow the Butterfield Overland Mail Co.'s  maiden voyage—150 years to the day!— he shoots video as much as he writes text. (I should know — I have to edit the raw footage.)

Here's some vid from Missouri last week. The story of how it took a week to post it is, well, historic. It involves trouble connecting to the web in remote places. Just as Waterman Ormsby sent his dispatches from the frontier, on the first Overland trip West, by handing it to the passing Eastbound stagecoach, Casey had to find places to stop that had connectivity. And the uploads often took enough time that his schedule was disrupted. The story involves arrivals at his wi-fi destinations long after they were closed—let's just call that the human factor! And of course, his ability to shoot the story and upload the vid was affected by a little bump in the road called Hurricane Ike.

But all's well that ends well, right? Here's the first of many videos from Casey On the Road, following the Butterfield Overland Mail Co. Route. And no, he didn't take a bluegrass band along for the ride. But it's a GREAT idea!