Walking to Newcastle
The Curiosity Collective will be at the Maker Faire in Newcastle again this year, March 13th & 14th.
This year we propose something slightly different… we intend to walk from Ipswich to Newcastle - bringing a traveling band of curious technologies!
In our preparation for Maker Faire 2009, one evening in the pub we consulted Google Maps on the iPhone to determine the route to drive from Ipswich, where we are based, to Newcastle. Google told us to go via Harwich and the Netherlands with two ferries making up the route - it had defaulted to a walking route but presented us with an adventure!
(the route, KML file for Google Earth)
Evidently this is the quickest way to walk from Ipswich to Newcastle. The folly of this suggested to us that we should indeed make this trip for Maker Faire 2010 and that we should take as many of our portable makes with us as we can - especially those which give our curious take on wayfinding, navigation, geographical information, mobile social networking and the like.
Follow our adventure here: Getting from A to B with the Curiosity Collective
Comments
Copywriting Newcastle on 02 May 2010
Does this mean you would have to walk non-stop whilst on the ferry? It’s cheating otherwise!