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America Is About Ideas

When people focus on innovation, the focus tends to drift to the coasts of the United States. In what started as a conversation with friends over barbecue at SXSW in2008, an idea was born to travel the heartland of America to highlight innovation in the middle of the country.

The Car

Our friend, Scott Monty at Ford was able to supply us with a 2010 Ford Escape for our journey. Without the car, we’d be stuck with just an idea. We’ll be blogging and making media from this car on its tour from Detroit, Michigan, home of the American auto industry, down to Austin, Texas. Along the way, you’ll learn more about ideas, innovation, and America.

Why a Road Trip?

Road trips are one of those great American experiences. Originally, I was looking for a more environmentally friendly way to travel to the SXSW Interactive festival and thought that this would be a fun trip to take with a friend. That still is true, but it seemed like the trip could turn into much more of a story, especially if we were to focus on the innovation that we discovered along the route to Austin. The American Innovator’s road trip was quickly born.

Our Support and Our Team

Our very special thanks to our sponsors for the trip:

Our team is: Jim, John Jeff & Colin

Follow Us on the Trip

If you want to see our progress and learn who’s interacting with us, you can follow this blog, but also don’t forget to check in via Twitter Search, where you can follow the #iroadtrip hash tag.

Want to contact us directly? Use our Twitter handles above, or drop us email at: colin AT constructingsocial.com

And thank you. This will surely be an adventure.

/colin

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ZuDfunck March 7, 2009 at 6:47 AM

I live in Detroit!
Oh My God!
Why on earth would you come here?

ZuD

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