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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People say the nicest things...

First off, I've heard from several people who saw the CNN interview earlier today - if you missed it, don't forget to check it out tomorrow at 12:30 or 5:30p ET on, but so far I've heard nothing but nice things. Thanks for all the great things you all have been saying - it means a lot to us.


Speaking of great things that people say, I recently mentioned that I uploaded episodes one through four on Vimeo, I've gotten so many comments in such a short time, and they have been some of the most flattering comments I've ever received. For example: 2 days ago Sarah Shevett said about Episode 4, "Wow that actually made me cry."

And 3 days ago Robin said about Episode 1, "[Because in the end it has almost nothing to do with the bike and everything to do with setting out to accomplish something that is intimidating, that is unknown to you, something you know you have a good chance of failing at but doing it anyways and slowly but surely proving yourself wrong.] Moved to tears. Seriously. Bravo Mike!"

Not that my sole purpose is to make people cry with the episodes, but it's unbelievably flattering and inspiring to hear people actually felt *that* connected with what I'm trying so hard to find the words to say. I can't thank you enough.

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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