I sent a letter to a company that makes personal safety jewelry called Cuff. It's a little devise that fits into a bracelet or necklace that will call 911 when pressed. Their product is in pre-sales right now and won't be available for a few months yet, but they suggested I contact them later in the Spring, so we'll see.
After hearing the Pepsi half-time ads, I decided that it would be fun to see if Pepsi will give me some sodas for a half-time on the trip. That should be somewhere around Glacier National Park in Montana and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Wouldn't that be funny to just pull over and offer people a Pepsi for half-time?
I'm getting more excited about this trip all the time! LOL
Here's the letter I sent:
It All Started With
An Accidental Dare From My Husband…
Hi, I’m Judi
Stull. I’m a Realtor (among other
things) in Mount Airy, Maryland. For a
long time, I’ve harbored a dream of traveling around the U.S. but it was just
cost prohibitive to stay in hotels every night and pay for gas while traveling
that long. I wanted to visit other
Realtors, friends and family members who are flung all over the country.
One day, my husband said, “You can do it, if you can do it for free.”
I just laughed at the time, but then a few weeks ago I
decided to ask my 1500+ friends on Facebook if anyone would let me sleep on
their couch for the night if I stopped by.
Within a few hours I had more than enough offers to get almost all the
way around the U.S. I was missing 5
states. I even had friends in 26 other
countries offering to let me stay with them!
I’m now getting offers from friends of friends in the states I was
missing.
My first thought was to use an electric car so I didn’t have
to pay for gas, but I soon realized that my route would not allow for that. There just aren’t enough charging stations in
the places I’m going. However, I could
use a hybrid! I’m only scheduling about
250-300 miles a day so I will have time to visit and to see some sights, which
will allow me the time needed to stop and charge up an electric hybrid. During the times when there aren’t any
charging stations, I can use gas power.
I’ve already had people offering me money to cover the costs
for tolls and gasoline.
What I need now is a
car. Will you loan me a car to do
this crazy social media fueled trip? I
will be gone a little more than four months and will probably drive a little
more than 20,000 miles. It’s just under
19,000 with only having cities, not exact addresses, on my route. I am hoping to leave on this trip June 10th
and to return on October 15th.
That’s 129 days if I stick to
my schedule. I will be staying with 120
different people and will be visiting nearly 300 people, all of whom will know
that you have loaned me a car. Plus it
will be mentioned several times in my blog and on social media.
I am very active on Facebook (Judi Bland Stull) and have
been for many years. After cleaning out
my friends list of people who were no longer active, I ended up with 1522
friends. I am followed by 1133 people on Twitter (@JudiStull) and use Twitter,
Yelp, Instagram and Swarm fairly regularly, I have a blog just for this trip at
ThisCrazyTrip.Blogspot.com . I am
a good driver with no accidents that were my fault. I don’t have any speeding tickets or other driving
issues, even though I will admit to exceeding the speed limit occasionally.
Will you help me make
ThisCrazyTrip a reality?
Thanks!!
Judi Stull
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