During our road trip, Natalie and I have decided to incorporate social media to document our fabulous adventures on the road. Why? Because in addition to nearly elimintating our paper trail, social media is a good tool to keep in touch with friends and family in real time with up to date statuses of not only what we are up to but more importantly, what we are learning on this trip.
So check us out on Facebook:
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Natalie's Partner in Crime
A few months ago, January to be exact, Natalie and I decided to go out for dinner. It had been forever and a half since I've seen her and in true Natalie fashion, we had our one on one time at a Japanese restaurant. I usually don't eat out at asian restaurants mostly because I don't like seafood but with Natalie, I am willing to try anything. We spent the entire afternoon swaping stories, from what we were doing right before meeting up to sharing what we would like to do after meeting up and everything in between. We both admitted that we would like to embark on a road trip and we also learned that our family owns farms. As I was taking the train back to my aunt's house, I was replaying our conversations back in my mind and an idea was born.
"Natalie, when are you starting your sustainability project where you go around seeing the strategies of farmers/people in the USA? How developed is this project of yours?---Do you want to farm across the US of A?"
This is the message I sent to Natalie as soon as I got home. When I look back at our dinner, I couldn't believe how much we still had in common. So it only made since to me if we collaborated our efforts this summer and engaged in a road trip that we would both benefit from.
Six months later, we have finally developed a proposal, a fine one that hopefully will provide us funding that will take us to the southwestern states and back. How did we go about coordinating all of this together? We both had to decide where we wanted to go, how long we wanted to stat there, how many stops we wanted to make on this trip and finally, how much it would cost to take us from point A to point B and C...Thanks to www.wwoofusa.org, we were able to select our destinations (three regions across the southwest) and finally decide that we want to spend a week at each farm.
As soon as we get into our car and drive, we will be chronicaling our journey one blog post and Youtube upload at a time. In the meantime, check us out on Facebook (our Facebook group is called HOMEGROWN ECO-TOURISM) and we'll keep you posted.
"Natalie, when are you starting your sustainability project where you go around seeing the strategies of farmers/people in the USA? How developed is this project of yours?---Do you want to farm across the US of A?"
This is the message I sent to Natalie as soon as I got home. When I look back at our dinner, I couldn't believe how much we still had in common. So it only made since to me if we collaborated our efforts this summer and engaged in a road trip that we would both benefit from.
Six months later, we have finally developed a proposal, a fine one that hopefully will provide us funding that will take us to the southwestern states and back. How did we go about coordinating all of this together? We both had to decide where we wanted to go, how long we wanted to stat there, how many stops we wanted to make on this trip and finally, how much it would cost to take us from point A to point B and C...Thanks to www.wwoofusa.org, we were able to select our destinations (three regions across the southwest) and finally decide that we want to spend a week at each farm.
As soon as we get into our car and drive, we will be chronicaling our journey one blog post and Youtube upload at a time. In the meantime, check us out on Facebook (our Facebook group is called HOMEGROWN ECO-TOURISM) and we'll keep you posted.
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