Brian Goes Remote Control

I was chatting with my girlfriend about my "Easy Rider" blog, and how cool it will be that readers can tell me about good places to go when I'm in a certain area, and I had a GREAT idea. If this blog gets sufficient public interest, for my next big trip I'll let people vote on where I should go each day. I figure I could come up with 4 or so different destinations within 300 miles of where I currently am, post them to the blog, and then let people vote on where I should go next. What do you all think? I'm really curious to see what would happen. Where would it send me?

I thought about retooling this trip to be interactive but I already have a defined route and I'm not willing to budge. Maybe next time.

A few days ago, I got all excited about the possibility of automatically posting my daily location using a GPS enabled cell phone. I found a kit of gear that will do it from anywhere in the world using a satellite phone. It even had a camera! How cool would that be to mount the camera on the front of my bike and have it upload a location and time stamped picture every day?! That idea seemed great until I saw the price tag: $2K. Pretty soon I'm going to be up to my eyeballs in student loans so I didn't think a $2K ghee-whiz-gizmo purchase was a good idea. I've heard satellite phone time is expensive too. I'm feeling my motivation for pursuing an investment banking career growing by the minute!