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Google Maps Road Trip NPR FTW!

Dude in the back of a truck spotted on GMRT

Pete and I finished the first-ever virtual live-streaming broadcast cross-country road trip on August 18th. It took us 9 days and 40+ hours of driving on Google Maps to complete the trek. I got food poisoning from Burger King and Pete almost lost his mind, but we persevered and made it to Richmond, VA from LA.

Fancy us; we were interviewed by NPR Weekend edition for our "vacation." For the NPR audio interview go to http://bit.ly/GMRTNPRA. And for the NPR article see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111921898.

You can see some vids over at www.googlemapsroadtrip.com, read a blurb on wiki if your heart so desires, and check out a hand full of screenshots on flickr.

We'll be back up this Friday, August 21st at 2pm PST to take a tour of Richmond, and we're slated to take a trip up to Maine soon. Stay tuned.

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Comments (3)

Aug 20, 2009
heather r. said...
rock on, dude! good work :)
Aug 20, 2009
Hightoy said...
I enjoyed it.It was a new experience and Pete and you formed a good team with entertaining topics. Keep on travelling the world virtually...
Aug 21, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Congrats sir!

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