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Some of you are familiar with my long-term dreams of seeing much of the world on foot, and in so doing experience people and cultures at a slower pace. But until that day comes, (sigh), I’ll still be caught up in the hustle. So that means that when we travel we want to do it fast and efficiently.
There are some solid road-tripping tips for doing just that over at VroomVroomVroom. The geek in me thinks that applications like the Radio-Locator, a site that lets you find the radio station that plays your type of music in every city along your route, is a whole lot of fun. But the traveling Bedouin is drawn to applications like Ridester and eRideShare which are a sort of modern-day platform for hitchhikers to meet up with people headed their direction in order to hitch a ride.
On a more serious note, the article got me thinking about all the great times I’ve had on road trips in the past. (I once drove from Atlanta back to the Toronto area with only a couple of stops, and from Baltimore to Toronto with just a few stops.) I’m not sure whether it’s the relative isolation of driving cross-country surrounded by nature, or the confined space possibly sharing the course with another person, but having been a road-tripper since a child, I have and idealized notion of cross-country driving.
Having known a lot of wanderers who have taken really bad motorcycle road trips in the past - such as being caught in a hailstorm near Salt Lake City, or briefly going under a transport truck - it’s kind of cool to see that web 2.0 applications haven’t ignored the travel market. Road-tripping is still a romantic notion for some people (aside from silly movies like Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle or the horrible Road Trip with Tom Green), but there’s nothing wrong with planning a vacation. And there are some really useful apps in the VroomVroomVroom list, to help optimize your roadtrip.
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