Crossing America on a Segway

Harald Paulsen writes "What do you do if you are tired of working in a cubicle and want to escape the Office Space? Two guys asked themselves this and decided to go across America on a Segway, making a documentary of their road trip. A trailer is available and the movie might show up at Sundance."

Comments

Re:highway?

[bohemian72]

The same way the bicyclists have been doing it, on the back roads. It is possible, there's quite a network out there. There's even a hiking trail, but I believe that's south of where these guys went.

Re:These guys are just lazy.

[Billosaur]

Lazy, perhaps... but lazy like foxes!! Imagine, quitting the workaday world on a whim, hatching a scheme to ride across America on what has to be one of the least inspiring forms of transportation available (I'd rather jog and I don't jog!), and film it, get it shown at Sundance (the new "buzz generator" [sorry Hollywood]) and reap the rewards as thousands of their friends (who have just as little life and money as they do) pay $10 a pop to see this in some theatre! Brilliant!

Wake me when someone crosses America on Oprah's back...

Rich guys' toys.

[grumling]

Maybe it is a little bit of sour grapes, but does anyone really think the Segway is ever going to be used by the disabled and aged people of the world (or the mailman)? So far I've only heard of them being used by 1)polo players (woz invented it), and now this. I did see a few young yuppie types on a bike trail in Denver (side by side, taking up the whole trail), and judging by their bellies, they should have been moving their feet.