About "Texts from the Road"

Hi everyone, my name is Marshall, and I will be posting "Texts from the Road" for Austin and Steph for the duration of their journey. They aren't always going to have internet access at all of their stops, so as long as one of them texts me, I can post their short updates for them here under the "text from the road" heading. I tried to convince Austin to set up a twitter account, so he could just "tweet" on his own from the road, but he wasn't game. As a result, we will be doing this the "old-fashioned way" (circa 2007): he will text or call me with an update, and then I will post it on the blog (along with an interactive google map image of where they are--go ahead, click, zoom, and drag that map below...cool!). Again, just to be clear, I am not with them on the trip. Nope, I'm sitting comfortably in my computer room in CT just trying to help my friends spread the good word. Enjoy the posts and if you like, you can pretend like I don't even exist and these "texts from the road" are magically making their way via the internet from Austin and Steph's phones to your computer screens. As far as you know, I don't really exist (except for the "posted by marshall" at the bottom). Please enjoy!