10 Feb 2009 Trans-siberian railway, where is Hawkins?

Just as I am starting to plan out my own trans-siberian trip for this summer, I bumped into Nick Hawkins’ blog, who’s doing the same thing at this very moment. You can really say what he’s doing is a real social media trip, accompanied by tools like Facebook, Twitter, Google Latitude and and his GPS logger. If you want to follow Nick, you can do the following things:

So, if you want to track me as I go from Moscow to Irkutsk to Ulanbataar to Beijing, do the following:

• Add me to Twitter
• GPS Tracking with Instamapper. I’ll try to fire this up every few hours to blip where I am, dependent on phone coverage.
• Flickr mobile photostream. Just camera phone photos while traveling, but it’d be sort of close to real-time. And geotagged.
• The Google Maps mashup of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Just to have an idea of where I’m going and what I’ve gotten myself into.

You can also add me on Facebook and I’ll even try to use Google Latitude along the way for tracking on your smartphone.

Meanwhile, good luck with your trip, Nick. We’ll be here following your adventures!