Friday, we’ll head from OK city, OK to Memphis where we’ll explore Graceland, several strip malls, and at night, we’ll seek out some local nightlife on Beale Street. Saturday, we’ll head from Memphis to The Great Smoky Nat’l Park in Tennessee where we’ll camp out and look at the stars and rename constellations on Google Sky.
Sunday, we’re going to just explore – the blueridge parkway ( street view there is beautiful) and some other things, it’s open, mainly viewer suggestions. From there, we’ll head to Pete’s place in Richmond, VA on Monday, where we’ll have a homecoming party.
We’d like to continue the next week, going up to Maine because I’ve never seen it. Then I’ll probably “fly” home.
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We will add some images in the morning, we are both starving.
We start broadcasting again on Tues Aug 11th @ 12:30 pm EST
see you then…
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Below are all the pre-recorded videos from our recent cross-country trip starting with the final wrap-up; and underneath the main video, you can scroll through all the videos from our nine-day excursion. Sorry there are no titles, so just scroll right until you find something that really speaks to you, then click and watch. See you soon!
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WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT:
Pete and I wanted to take a road trip together this summer, but he lives in Richmond, VA and I live in LA. We tried and tried to make our dreams of the classic American cross-country journey come true, but because of finances, schedule conflicts, and time constraints, we just couldn’t make it work. You know how it is. But then we had an idea: What about a virtual road trip that exploits the wonderful technologies of Google Maps and ustream. We could definitely make that happen.
So on August 10th, 2009, at 3pm PST, we left my house in LA and began driving together to Pete’s place in Richmond. For 9 straight days, we “virtual drove” across the country by continuously pressing the Google Maps arrow keys eastward, broadcasting the entire experience live on http://www.googlemapsroadtrip.com . This means that folks were able to not only see and hear us as we travel, but also join us in a real-time chat room. Just think of it as an invitation for someone to hop in the backseat and ride along with us for part of the adventure.
We’re sung plenty of made-up songs together, made our fair share of stupid noises, got in one memorable argument, visited a few dozen historical sites and old friends, stopped at crummy motels for the night, and saw Graceland on Elvis’s death date. Just remember: This is real-time, so when we stopped to eat, we actually ate, and when we stopped to sleep, we actually went to bed, and if someone wanted a visit, we’d actually “drive” to their house, pick em up, and tour their hood.
This is everything that we’d do on a real road trip, except we didn’t have to leave the house, pay for gas, or worry about getting speeding tickets.
If you have suggestions on what we should do for our next big trip, please e-mail me at marc@ineedtostopsoon.com
Looking forward to spending some quality time with YOU on our next road trip! Can’t wait!
Marc & Pete
P.S You can see stills from out cross-country journey on our flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/googlemapsroadtrip/ . And my websites are below so you can see a little of who I am. see ya.
marc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Horowitz
blog. http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com
follow. http://www.twitter.com/marchorowitz
watch. http://www.youtube.com/ineedtostopsoon
photo. http://www.flickr.com/marchorowitz
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press. http://bit.ly/marchorowitzpress