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Countdown to the
Better World Roadtrip!

The Countdown for the launch of The Better World Roadtrip has officially begun!

And it's about time…I've been daydreaming about starting this journey for 20 years. Over the years those daydreams have found their way into a dozen different stories I've scribbled down. The idea has always been basically the same - nothing less than an uplifting personal journey of self-discovery, and an empowering tale of communal-inspiration and world transformation. But my daydreams about the cast of my adventure, its mission and of course the journey itself, well, they've been all over the map, from a travelogue-reality show, to a buddy-film, romantic comedy of errors, or a fantastical quest of epic proportions to save the world.

Turns out, Season One of The Better World Roadtrip is going to be a simple roadtrip - a journey to get from where I am to where I need to be to start the real mission for the next chapter in my life. You see what I really have been wanting to do even more than a roadtrip is launch a reality show that will change the world - The Better World Show: The Reality Show That Will Change Reality. So this edition of the Roadtrip is really just about finding the Team to make the Show, and finding a place to live so that we can do it. Of course, once the roadtrip gets underway, I'm sure it will turn out to be everything I've daydreamed and more, because reality as they say, is often much stranger than fiction or daydreams.

Unfortunately, before the roadtrip can even start, there's the obligatory backstory preparations that have to be addressed. Luckily there aren't many loose ends to tie up before I go. Life has conveniently taken care of that. But that's another story. And of course in the past, money had always been another huge hurdle to surmount before I could seriously think about transforming this daydream into reality. But since this roadtrip is just the journey from here to where I'm going, and I won't have to pay to live here anymore, the budget to live during the journey's pretty much the same as it was before, so that's not an issue anymore.

So, the only real preparation on my to-do list is to find someone to share the journey. Someone who'll be the star, because (and you can admit you were thinking it) this introspectively-broken-but-still hopeful middle-aged personality isn't going to bring viewers to our Roadtrip youtube channel.

But seriously, how hard can it be to find just one energetic person who wants to star in a youtube webseries about hitting the road to find a team to change the world. Well, there is the issue about living on the road with a total stranger for 4 weeks, chipping in for gas and motels, and not being paid, which I can see could be an issue for some people. But hey, you'd get to be in on the ground floor of a venture that could very well change the world, armed with nothing but our creativity and a video camera and youtube channel to start with.

So, what do you say. Are YOU up for The Better World Roadtrip? I'm heading out soon, so let me know...

Better World Bob

© 2015 Robert Alan Silverstein
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