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What is the Beleive It Tour?
Follow off-beat traveler, Michael Esordi, as he takes you on another exciting journey. This time he is out to ask,
what do you believe in?
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With the 11-year anniversary of Project New Zealand (see sidebar), the time has come to compare how modern storytelling has changed in a relatively short period. Yet who has time to read more technology lingo? We want to see videos, be intrigued, click buttons... make it fun!
The Believe It Tour sets out to explore the new ways of sharing experiences with friends, family, people you haven't even met yet - all with an interesting theme. Seeking why, as children, we are allowed to believe in so many things, yet as adults we are taught the opposite.
While they criss-cross the nation, the Believe It Tour team will be talking to the locals about what they believe in. Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts, and even Santa Claus are just a few of the curiosities to be investigated along this meandering route from the coast of Washington State to the southern tip of Florida.
Eleven years ago with Project New Zealand, posting a daily journal online was exciting enough. Today, cyberspace is crammed with blogs, so without a good story, people click and move onto the next one. The visionary in Michael understands that the next step is juxtaposing classic ideas - such as passing down myths and legends or telling a ghost story - with today's high-tech gadgets. He hopes you will take part in the interaction and enjoy being part of the fun.
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Ways to participate
There are many ways to take part in the experience. Here are just a few:
- Email us a link to your video clips
- Send us photos of your tours
- Write a story to post on this site
- Visit our Facebook and MySpace pages
- Comment on our blog
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team bios
background information
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Project New Zealand
Blogging since 1997
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At its onset Project New Zealand pushed the limits of digital media. Digital cameras were bulky, laptops were heavy and slow, and websites were in their infancy.
Aside from such limitations, Michael Esordi envisioned a way to use this set of tools to share an experience with an audience across the globe simultaneously.
Team riders, Michael and John Patzman, posted daily photos and writings to journal their bike trip across New Zealand. Now commonplace and known as a "blog," Project New Zealand was well before its time. This innovative way of utilizing the web as a personal journal earned the attention of several large media outlets, such as CNN and the New York Times, as well as many smaller newspapers worldwide.
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