Twitter Love

Yesterday, at around 1:51 pm eastern, we arrived at Bar Harbor, Maine. Which means so many things I can't even begin to go into them here and now... but I will soon enough. When I was looking out at the ocean, I twittered this from my phone: Just arrived in bar harbor... how strange to be at the end..., and these awesome people responded with:

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two little things

Just wanted to mention two quick things that keep escaping me when I sit down to update. First off, I made a change to the "video & still" link in the menu to the left. Before it was a drop down that I had to go in and manual add/remove items from, now "video" is one link to Pedal's Blip.tv show-page, and the "& still" links back to my flickr collection of Pedal related pictures. These two sites (Blip & Flickr) are much better at social networking and connecting that I am - I think it's better to externalize those aspects of the this site.

Next is Pedal's Twitter log - on the main page of Project Pedal, before you get to the blog, there is a small'ish gray box with a short update in it.


That update is a "Twitter", what is Twitter? It's a great site that you can use to share "what you are doing" with your friends/family/strangers. For example, on June 25th, I wrote: Listening to 'Don't Stop Believing' at the park in Wolf Point, Mt. It's raining - the sky is pink/purple. Very hungry :)

You can receive updates through your IM, your cell phone, or just through the website (it's up to you how you are updated). Okay, back on the road for now.

tags: pedal, documentary, indie, vlog, blog, bicycle, coast-to-coast, community, flickr, blip.tv, twitter

The Party

It's always a bit nerve racking to throw a party - especially one that is announced/planned very last minute. I'll admit a few times I was quite worried that "no one was gonna' show".

But I am so, so happy with how everything turned out - on every level. Jimmy, the man behind 'Little Radio', was fantastic and extremely helpful and easy-going. Angela, from BlackCatInc, did an awesome, awesome job planning the event (and she also didn't kill me when I, like an ass, forgot to thank her during the speech... I was rushed and awkward'ish). 'A Faulty Chromosome' finished out the night great with a laid back acoustic show.

And most importantly: people came!! Lots more people then we realistically expected. We were praying for 50, and by the end of the night we are fairly positive we had a 100 people make an appearance.





So thank you to everyone who helped make the night very memorable! Thanks to all of you who made donations. To all you "secret santas" (as Jill would say) who donated cash, we're sorry we didn't have the foresight to set out pens by the table.

It was just a really, really great night. I tried very hard to say "hello" to everyone, I'm sorry for those of you I didn't get to speak with at all (or even those of you who I didn't get to speak with for more than only a few minutes).



And, of course, we wouldn't have been able to do any of this with out the help of our two sponsors: Next New Networks/Indy Mogul and Pando!

Check out all the great flickr pics from the night. And I have to share this video that my friend, Lan, put together using stills from his 20D, I love it:



tags: pedal, documentary, indie, vlog, blog, bicycle, coast-to-coast, community, funding