#gt11

Some may know of my plans coming up in March. If not heres the info as well as some finer details of where and why.

The Trip

For the whole month of March, the 1st to 31st, I will be in the US. Why the US? Well where else on the planet is there Silicon Valley, Apple’s HQ and New York :) It was a decision either to get a car or go on this trip, I think I made the right decision. I will be travelling with a great mate in the US, Cody Christian (@codypchristian).

The idea has been thrown about for a while but back in late 2010 the decision was made that 2011 will be the year to turn ideas into reality. My new years resolution for 2010 was to be in New York’s Times Square for NYE 2011, after watching the Times Square NYE 2010 celebrations. Unfortunately, by the time I checked flights later in the year they were already a too pricy. So after a few long Skype calls we decided that March would be the best month. As for the length of the visit, hey why not the whole month?!

With both Cody and myself being pretty geeky we decided that most of our itinerary would be focussed around going to the places that our industry highlights as sacred ground. Places like Silicon Valley, several Headquarters of companies we love, the must visit US cities and Yosemite National Park to take some amazing photos.

Itinerary

March 1st: Leave Australia bound for LAX. Depart Adelaide at 9:30am local to go to SYD then LAX. Arrive at LAX around 10:00am local on the same day (only a 30 minute flight, apparently)! Then fly straight off to SFO. March 1st-8th: San Francisco. Explore Silicon Valley. March 9th-11th: Yosemite National Park. Pretty much all photography. March 12th-15th: Los Angeles. Hollywood and all that. March 16th-17th: Las Vegas. Somehow fit the Grand Canyon and Vegas into 2 days! March 18th-22nd: New York. See the sights, catch a cab. March 23rd-25th: Washington DC. Where all the serious stuff happens, apparently. March 26th-31st: Florida. Cody’s home state and also home to Disneyland :) March 31st – April 2nd: Begin >24 hour trek home. Somehow April the 1st just disappears, does not even happen.

Places of Interest

Twitter HQ

Facebook HQ

Apple Mothership (its true, they sell t-shirts that say that)

Googleplex

TWiT TV HQ

Revision3 (meeting with people like Hak5 Darren and the Diggnation guys?)

Mythbusters

White House

Capital Hill

Manhattan

Trying to catch up with Gary Vaynerchuk on his book tour

Meeting the many people (IRL) I have known only via the Internet for these many years

Geek Tour 2011 website

So with both of us being web developers how could we not resist. We are building a website where it will go out and automatically scrape all of our tweets, photo uploads, check-ins and Facebook updates into one site detailing our whole trip. Check out http://geektour2011.com closer to March.