Trip Report: The Perfect Family Trip!
EDIT: I wanted to add this link here at the beginning. Ragusa's Summer 2014 Trailer Hello friends! We have been home for two months, but I am just now feeling like getting to the trip repo...
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I understand how you feel. At the same time, I foresaw how your relatives feel. I mean, I would have been thrilled for you if I'd been proven wrong, but... well, I know how most people are about family travelogues. Whether slide shows or home movies (now videos), it's a long-running cliche that the family sits around desperately bored and waiting to escape the seemingly interminable travel tale. Hey, they have even drawn cartoons mocking the whole ordeal! Your relatives just happen to have bought into the stereotypical mindset and are acting the way they think people in their position are supposed to act.
That said, the length of your show really does bite the big one. That surely didn't help with their attitudes. As epic as this trip was for you and your wife & kids, it's probably only worth a half hour of their lives, maybe 45 minutes tops (in the estimation of most relatives), to watch such a thing.
My hobby is stereoscopic (3D) photography. Been doing it since the turn of the century, but my dad shot stereo slides back in the '50s, so that makes it a 'family tradition.' That really helped my close relatives (brothers and sisters and mother, mainly) buy into viewing a batch of my vacation slides when we visited each summer. But even so, I'd cherry-pick through the slides and only show a select few... best of the best... to keep it under 20-30 minutes of passing the Realist viewer around the room. Any more than that and they'd start wandering off to the kitchen, for sure!
My advice to you is: give them the link to this thread and to a segment or two of your video (when you get it posted somewhere). Then if they want to go look on their own time, they will. And if they don't give a flying flip, well too bad they don't enjoy a good travel story but don't let it get you down!
That said, the length of your show really does bite the big one. That surely didn't help with their attitudes. As epic as this trip was for you and your wife & kids, it's probably only worth a half hour of their lives, maybe 45 minutes tops (in the estimation of most relatives), to watch such a thing.
My hobby is stereoscopic (3D) photography. Been doing it since the turn of the century, but my dad shot stereo slides back in the '50s, so that makes it a 'family tradition.' That really helped my close relatives (brothers and sisters and mother, mainly) buy into viewing a batch of my vacation slides when we visited each summer. But even so, I'd cherry-pick through the slides and only show a select few... best of the best... to keep it under 20-30 minutes of passing the Realist viewer around the room. Any more than that and they'd start wandering off to the kitchen, for sure!
My advice to you is: give them the link to this thread and to a segment or two of your video (when you get it posted somewhere). Then if they want to go look on their own time, they will. And if they don't give a flying flip, well too bad they don't enjoy a good travel story but don't let it get you down!
