Sites on the Side of the Road
As I continue to plan the CoF Roadshow, I'm coming across other examples of people taking their projects and Web sites on the road. Here are some interesting examples:

Let Me Stay for a Day: Riffing off of Mykel Board's World for Free and the old Crash Network, Ramon left his home in the Netherlands in May 2001 and is traveling the world to visit people who invite him to stay with him. Many of his diary entries are relatively sparse, but so far Ramon's visited people in Denmark, the UK, and Ireland -- all because they answered his call for hosts. An awesome look at how personal travel can be -- and what opening yourself up to people can bring.

RVGirl: For about nine months now, Eliza Sherman, founder of Cybergrrl and Eviva, has been traveling the United States in an, um, RV, and staying occasionally at KOA Kampgrounds. Eliza's diaries are more robust than Ramon's, concentrating on her personal experiences -- and ample descriptions of the people and places she's encountering. You get much more of a sense of what's it's like to be where Eliza's going. Another good use of the Web to document a road trip.

Roadtrip Nation: Way back in 1999 there was some talk between Nate, Mike, and I about whether we should all go on the first CoF Roadshow together. It didn't make sense, but we've all kept on doing what we do -- hitting the open road to meet, do, and learn. Now they're taking their show on the road again -- also in September, just like me. While their 2001 site is scant, scant, scant, check out their two and a half month's worth of road reports from 1999. I hope to run into them this fall -- well, not literally, but you know.