Seeking Drivers/City connections for Glitchen Reunion Train (TM) brought to you by Faranae
Hi everyone! Sorry I have not been active here in the Eleven forums before now. Meanwhile, time to pester you about an epic good idea (TM). Basically, I currently am in Tampa-ish. and I want to get to Vancouver-ish. By March 12, 2015. Normally, one would say "uh, plane?", but I want to bring my guitar and easel. So then you say "drive?" and I say: I don't actually know how. Also, boring.
So! What I want to do is ask all of You, my fabulous Glitch family, to help me make the journey. We've started a channel in the Glitchen slack team (#slackbot-na-tour). The idea is sort of a continent-wide relay race with me as the baton, with as many glitchen as I can muster getting to meet up and do preposterous things together. It's sort of a mobile Glitch convention, spurred by my need/desire to move (again). Glitchen are scattered all over, and right now I have a ride from Florida to... somewhere, folks in Texas who can drive me for a leg of road, someone in California who can road trip a bit northwards, and then lots of gaps! The route is super flexible, and I expect this to be an epic road trip with ridiculous detours and taking way longer than driving between these two cities would normally.
It is not my intention to mooch. Cost sharing will be worked out before the journey begins. There will hopefully be liveblogging. There will definitely be lots of social media-ing. For those who don't live anywhere near a reasonable route, I would like to find a way to involve you, if you want to be involved. Postcards, stickers, whatever...
So, if you want to help, reply here, or talk about it in the slack team! Also, if you just have good ideas, or things you would want from me in exchange for throwing some money at the problem, tell me about it! A bunch of us in Glitchen global only thought of this yesterday afternoon, so it's not very organized yet.
So! What I want to do is ask all of You, my fabulous Glitch family, to help me make the journey. We've started a channel in the Glitchen slack team (#slackbot-na-tour). The idea is sort of a continent-wide relay race with me as the baton, with as many glitchen as I can muster getting to meet up and do preposterous things together. It's sort of a mobile Glitch convention, spurred by my need/desire to move (again). Glitchen are scattered all over, and right now I have a ride from Florida to... somewhere, folks in Texas who can drive me for a leg of road, someone in California who can road trip a bit northwards, and then lots of gaps! The route is super flexible, and I expect this to be an epic road trip with ridiculous detours and taking way longer than driving between these two cities would normally.
It is not my intention to mooch. Cost sharing will be worked out before the journey begins. There will hopefully be liveblogging. There will definitely be lots of social media-ing. For those who don't live anywhere near a reasonable route, I would like to find a way to involve you, if you want to be involved. Postcards, stickers, whatever...
So, if you want to help, reply here, or talk about it in the slack team! Also, if you just have good ideas, or things you would want from me in exchange for throwing some money at the problem, tell me about it! A bunch of us in Glitchen global only thought of this yesterday afternoon, so it's not very organized yet.
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The question isn't whether you live where I need to finally arrive, but whether you are willing to drive some portion of the way to where I need to finally arrive. It's a relay "race"! Which involves meeting as many Glitchen as possible!
Note that our biggest gaps are from W. Texas to So. Cal., and N. Florida to Texas. Lelu is sort of willing to go all the way to Texas, but it would really be better to have an in-between person! (if nothing else, someone who will let us couch surf!).
Miss Zoey: are you on slack? If not, you should definitely email hawkwellglitch at gmail to get an invite. On the map, red pins mean the home town of someone who has offered to drive, or the end point they are willing to drive to. A car icon means someone who has been confirmed as being able to drive with another glitchen at their end point (Lelu is the only one so far). Blue pins mean any glitch who has expressed some kind of interest. Green pins are for random sites (or people) that might be of interest to the glitchen population. And then there are blue-colored route lines for google directions between places (there are two so far, but not lelu because we don't yet know *which* Dallas glitch will be the pick up!). I'm trying to get the "absolutely fundamental to this" drivers figured out this week, and at latest next week. We can always add more drivers later (and thus let long-haulers like Lelu have a shorter trip back home!), but we need to make sure there's an actual trip of committed people first. The deadline to get to Vancouver is not set in stone, it would just be nice (and puts a fire under our seats to get us to do the thing!).
And Tuscaloosa could work out well to let Lelu not go all the way to Texas (well, unless she really wants to meet the Dallas crowd~). We expect there to be some meandering and ridiculous detours one would never ever do on a normal, efficient road trip. So we could take 75 all the way up to 20, and you would take me off Lelu's hands and head to Texas (well, that's the idea, anyway). So its just a matter of how long/far all the different people want to drive.
Vera: At the moment, it is looking like maybe early March? There's a bunch of us in Tampa-ish, so there will definitely be a "launch" party!
http://www.gofundme.com/GlitchTrain
(This week is terrible, because we had a bunch of snow storms Monday and are set to have more snow Friday.)
Be careful of truckers on the highways, they are random in a bad way!
@Kweeky Thanks for the tip! It's sounding like none of the bay area Glitchen can make it to a launch party, so not sure Cigar City is in my future. But I will tell the Glitchen to go there for a meet-up sometime, since there's 4+ down thataway!
Except I don't live in America...
...I live overseas
...In Australia
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my car is not working xD