Two former strangers meeting at woome.com come up with a crazy idea. Embark on a cross country trip to meet the hundreds of cool users they WOO’d on WooMe face to face and extend online relationships to offline friendships, couch surfing and doing some good across the country, all along the way. Two men, 15 major cities, 8 pockets full of cash, four thousand miles of road and one mission. WOO around America! More...

This trip so far has been above average… I would definitely give it to A- on the grounds of doing what we set out to do… and that’s WOO the glorious United States of America. We proved that it is possible to make create real friendships and camaraderie through a site like WooMe.

TheOysta and I have decided to re-route our trip back to California, and have plans to start a weekly entitled “Rdot + Oysta TV” as a way to continue the spirit of the trip until we can manage to WOO the east coast in the fall. Because Oysta plans to move New York by the end of the Summer, I am hoping to do a mini-roadtrip up to New York in the upcoming months. Of course, I would have to meet up with him in some random shady drug-dealer infested New York alleyway.

The mantra of the trip was to “do it big!” and I’d like to maintain that mentality in my everyday life. I am reminded of a discussion I had with Marrena when i was in San Diego when I told her “In order to be big you have to BE big!”.

So what happens next? We head back to California to plot our next moves, any ideas regarding any idea that was idealically indealified would be appreciated.

With hopes of jumping 60 ft. cliffs that Derik told us about, we sought out Lake Travis. After taking nearly an hour and half because of a Garmin GPS, we encountered the smelliest toilet in the universe before stumbling upon a nice jumping point.

John was a little more willing than me to leap like an unmasked Bruce Wayne into the muggy waters.

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After a super fun night in Fort Worth, Texas, it was FINALLY time to embark to Austin. Thankfully, the drive wasn’t bad at all and we were able to meet up with my step brother Derek who I had seen in almost 7 years! From there we met up with Britney at the hotel room and headed off to 6th Street, the hot night spot in town, and hit up a couple bars. First, we stopped at The Chuggin Monkey for a few drinks. Although it was a Sunday night, we were still able to have fun on our own, singing and dancing to the bar music. Our night was topped off with a stop at The Blind Pig Pub where we met up with woome.com user Diana. All in all, the night was a huge success, aside from waking up the next morning and realizing i left my debit card at The Blind Pig. Here is a quick lil mix I made up from the night’s events…

Made a stop over in Ft. Worth to meet up with the beautiful Ketra and to rest up for our Austin leg of the trip. Stayed at the “Dazed-Inn” (Days Inn) and found out about this jewel in the area called “Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar”. Was absolutely amazing, basically there are two guys jamming out on the piano, and a guy on drums. Wasn’t sure how it was going to be, but when we got there we were both pleasantly surprised. 

WIth a name like “Pete’s Piano Bar”, thought I was going to be underdressed sipping martinis next to middle aged men in Tuxes, oh was I wrong… I guess I forgot I was in Texas.

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Big thanks to Talan for hooking it up majorly and letting us crash at her pad in Lubbock… you are the shit! It is definitely possible to turn an online relationship into an offline friendship. Thanks for showing us around, and definitely giving us a good time. This is how you WOO baby!