What did I do?
I drove throughout the USA meeting interesting entrepreneurs, investors, photographers and change agents from Dec 2008 to May 2009, primarily driving cross-country from Virginia to California and back.

Where did I go and who did I meet?
Click on the flags on the map to see more details on each location.

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Trip Details

• The Expenses Behind the “Drive-By” Trip, Nov 30 to Feb 14
• Refreshing the Expenses behind the “Drive-By” Trip, Nov 30 to Mar 31

City Summaries

• Starting: Drive-By Consulting, Literally
• Washington, DC and Charlotte, North Carolina
• Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana
• Houston, Texas
• College Station, Texas and Dallas, Texas
• Scottsdale, AZ and Los Angeles, CA
• San Francisco, CA: Catching up on the Drive-By Road Trip
• Building Communities in Santa Cruz, California
• See below for summaries from Austin, Texas and SXSW
• Thanks! … to 10 people from Knoxville, Richmond, Washington DC and Philadelphia
• Thanks! … to 15 people from Toronto and New York

SXSW

• SXSW Core Conversation: Venture Capital for Long Tail Entrepreneurs at SXSW
• SXSW: Hello, I’m Taylor. (And I’d like to meet you at SXSW)
• Fishbowl, Austin, Texas
• “Blood Trail” and Richard Parry at SXSW, Austin, Texas
• Thanks! … to 36 people from Austin and SXSW

Portraits

• Nicholas Tolson, Washington DC
• Lyell Petersen (93octane), Charlotte, North Carolina
• Nickolas Reese, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Chris Schultz, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Travis Collins, College Station, Texas
• Ethan Bauley, Los Angeles, California

Photographs and Stories

• Discarded, Luray, Virginia
• On the road, on the mind, Georgia
• Bruce Davidson Lecture at PhotoNOLA, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Hidden, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Sunset over Sunshine, Donaldsville, Louisiana
• String, West Texas
• Exploring, Carlsbad National Park, New Mexico
• Zero Visibility Possible, New Mexico
• Lines of Power, Apache National Forest, Arizona
• Mundane, Arizona and Stranded, Arizona
• Video, Joshua Tree National Park, California
• Snow in the desert, Joshua Tree National Park, California
• Ahead and Deciding, Joshua Tree National Park, California
• Cool, Los Angeles, California
• Play, Refugio Beach State Park, California
• Expanse, Santa Barbara, California
• Morning, Reno, Nevada
• I thought I would hate Reno, but I was wrong, Reno, Nevada
• Reflection, Shift and Framed, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California
• Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
• On and off, Hoover Dam, Nevada
• After and Before, Mojave Desert, California
• Leaving, Sacramento, California
• Views, Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, Sacramento, California
• Haven, Apart, Decisions and Possibility and Reality, San Francisco, California
• Comfort and Many Lives, San Francisco, California
• How to Live a Nomadic Lifestyle
• Closed and Nature and Nurture, Death Valley National Park, California
• Decisions, Manti la Sal National Forest, Utah
• Fenced, Monument Valley, Arizona
• Change, Page, Arizona
• Durango Hometown Hostel, Durango, Colorado
• Entranced, Cortez, Colorado
• Underbelly, St. George, Utah
• Missed Opportunities, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Flowing, New Mexico
• Dreams, Truchas, New Mexico
• Drift, Carson National Forest, New Mexico
• Holland Hotel, Alpine, Texas
• I expected to like Durango, and I did, Durango, Colorado
• Misfortune or Opportunity, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Ripple in the World, Big Bend National Park, Texas
• Witless and Fading, Enchanted Rock State Park, Texas
• Unknown Variety, Austin, Texas
• Hidden, Fort Davis, Texas
• Minds in Motion, SXSW, Austin, Texas
• Waking up, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Apart, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
• Free, New York City, New York

Interviews & Press

• The Internet Changes Everything, and Nothing At All, Lisa Hoffmann
• GameChanger of the Month – December 2008, Mike Bonifer, GameChangers
• Wall Street Journal, Venture Capital Dispatch: The Daily Start-Up

How can you meet me?
If you’re on my route, contact me if you’re an entrepreneur or if you’ve got an idea for a product or company and you would like a bit of free consulting and advice, or if you want to hack out a financial model for your idea, or want to do an interview about your idea, or if you just want to say hello. I’m here for you.