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Hi guys!
Thanks for writing up this AWESOME post on our road trip & T@B, Alex.

Let's see, to answer some questions:

Art,
We're pulling it with my mom's 98' Jeep she let us borrow. It's a piece of junk (radio doesn't work, passenger side is constantly soaked, etc) but we couldn't afford a nice car to tow and I had too many high hopes that Saturn would really loan us a VUE for this (we only asked them two weeks before we took off and it seemed so likely! But then it didn't work out :( ) Those photos from the Flickr link are also a T@B, the Clamshell version. The T@B that they loaned us is supposed to be their most popular model.

Elvedon & TheoJ
I worked the last two years, on my own, as a freelance web designer (self taught), to afford paying for this trip. We lived in a small apartment and spent as little money as possible. Both Mark and myself are by no means rich, nor are we anywhere near upper middle class - although perhaps if you know a little about Montclair, NJ, you know it's filled with a bunch of rich people, we just happened to go to college there. We worked very hard, and spent the entire summer applying for grants and sponsorships for our project. It really paid off. If we can do it, so can you two! Good luck.

Everyone else,
Thanks for the comments and I hope you become regular Wanderful readers. If anyone is interested in having us over for dinner (Alex and her family were our first), please drop us a line at markatie@wanderful.us - we've already got one offer from Julie in Portland OR. Thank you!

Oooh that looks like fossilized coral.

I work for a blog in New Jersey (baristanet.com). We have a section where restaurants can be reviewed and oh boy, sometimes these restaurant owners just hate being listed on our page, since anyone can leave a negative comment if they'd like. These people need to learn to take criticism, bad customer service is what leads to bad reviews, maybe they should work on fixing how they treat customers instead of ruining their reputation even more by complaining about the comments.