Gregor Weichbrodt, a communication design student from Germany, has created the road trip of my dreams using Jack Kerouac's seminal book, On The Road. "The exact and approximate spots Kerouac traveled and described are taken from the book and parsed by Google Direction Service API. The result is a huge direction instruction of 55 pages. The chapters match those of the original book. All in all, as Google shows, the journey takes 272.26 hours (for 17,527 miles)."
You can buy the print book here (the PDF here) or download it for free, over here. What I'd give to have the time and money to do the whole 17,527 miles.
I'd totally forgotten about Michael Palin's travels. I absolutely loved them all. He's got a voice that just suits it all perfectly - a bit like Attenborough and animals or nature. I hadn't forgotten about Karl Pilkington though. Who could? The following exchange is after Michael asks about the photo of Karl on the cover of his book.
"What does your partner, or wife, think of that, is it glamorous?
"She's sort of, a bit, does that have to be the cover? But you know, we've all changed. I mean, I know me body's not what it was when I first met her, but you know, her's isn't either."
Love this ad for taking the bus by Midttrafik and M2FILM. Let's face it, public transport is never going to be sexy or cool, so why not just take the piss. Perfectly done so here.
