As I promised a few blog posts back I have completed and uploaded the Green Bay Trail and Robert McClory Bike Trail Videos!

The videos are really new since I just took them on 7/7/9. I had a little time to put the video together, render the video flash file and upload it to the website so I completed this one fairly quickly.

You can now find the new bike trail video from either of the bike trail pages on this site or directly at this link: Green Bay and Robert McClory Bike Trail Video.

The video tour starts in Wilmette and goes to the Great Lakes Metra Station (just north of Lake Bluff).

I used much of the same original instrumental music background as I did on the last video (The Algonquin Road Bike Trail Video) since I own the copyrights on the songs and it is just way easier that way. I used a slightly different selection and order of the songs.

Now that I have a few bike trail videos out there, I have added a video icon to the bike trail pages for the trails that have videos and have also added a completely new Bike Trail Videos Page so there are a number of different ways to find and access the bike trail videos on this website.

As for a little background on the videos in general, I am trying to put together a good number of videos of the bike trails in the Chicagoland area to have all in one location and in a consistent format.

As for the Green Bay and Robert McClory bike trail videos specifically, I’ll let you in on a little “behind the scenes scoop” on some technical difficulties that I had with the video (even though it is embarrassing).

I missed most of the first 9 minutes of my trip (north of Wilmette to somewhere in Winnetka). Somehow I got out of sync with the camcorder. It makes a beep every time that you press the record/standby button but I wasn’t looking in the viewfinder to read what was saying. So every time I thought that I was recording it was in standby mode and every time I thought that it was in standby mode it was recording!!!

Arrrgh!I lost all of the stuff that I wanted to record and recorded my legs pedaling mostly!!! I got back in sync somewhere in Winnetka and was OK after that. I managed to salvage some of that video mostly via some still pictures in the video.

So now when you see that section, you will know that it was not some creative artistic inspiration but a technical corretion :-(.

I hope you enjoy the video.