Texas to the Bay Area in 24 hours (#TX2CA24)
On Friday May 1st I will begin a journey that will take me from El Paso Texas to Redwood City in a VW Passat. I will have 24 hours to complete this trip and will be traveling with my sister.
My day begins at 3am Friday May 1st when I awake for work. I will then work from 4am to 9am. From there I will head home to drop off my car, board a train to the San Francisco airport where my flight is scheduled to leave at 12:10pm. I land in El Paso Texas at 5:39pm. My sister will be waiting with her VW Passat that she just drove there from San Antonio. From the airport I will jump in the drivers seat and begin my drive back to Redwood City (Bay Area). I am going to be selling my sisters car for her, as she is catching a plane to move back to Alaska for work.
The reason I have 24 hours to complete this trip is because I am scheduled to work at 5am Sunday morning and I would prefer to be back in time Saturday with enough time to get a full nights sleep since I will have had very little sleep in the previous 48 hours.
Along this quick trip I am going to be documenting my trip via Twitter and my Flipcam. I will be putting together a documentary with these two mediums when I return. You can follow my trip on Twitter at #TX2CA24 (search for this hash tag for those not familiar with how # work)
Anyone located along this route I am traveling (which I will tweet at some point before I leave) DM me (only way I’ll get tweets on the road) and I may buy you lunch if you can reach me before I pass by your destination. I am curious to see how many tweets I see along the way, weather they are from people at there computers, or even people driving on the same road as me.
Twestival
There is this worldwide event being held on February 12th. The best way to describe it would be a massive tweetup. Tickets are being sold, companies are donating gifts, and all the proceeds are going to Charity Water. Just under 200 cities are participating worldwide.
I decided to help with this event when I first heard there would be a Twestival in San Francisco. Spreading the word through online calenders, facebook, twitter, and our own website. The time put into this event has been huge, both for me and the great team I am working with. We are a small team of less then 10 individuals, but I think together we are going to make this into a great event with around 300 attendees.
I have learned some valuable online marketing tactics while helping with this event, and believe that twitter can be used as a great resource for companies to spread there name with the online community. Since this realization I have decided to try and get involved into other great projects that harness the power of online socialization to spread the word about topics of national concern.
