*oBST's Back In Action! After a Two Week Break...

Wow, I can't believe it's been more than two weeks since the last post. (It's unbelievable how things pile up as summer comes around--things to plan, you know how it goes.) Sorry to all of you out there who missed our posts while the blog was on a The Daily Show/ Colbert Report-style two-week-long break. I'll try and make up for it today...

For the inquiring *oBST Blog readers out there, the reasons behind our break had a lot to do with planning that all three *oBST partners (if you haven't already, check each one of us out: here, here) are working on "business" travel plans (heh) for summer (oh yeah, and 2/3 of *oBST had finals last week...). We've decided that we'll be going to Europe; we'll be there from mid-June to early July (I'll post more info on this a little bit later). Hopefully, we can turn this into a pretty cool "promotional event" sort of thing by including some Flickr slideshows filled with photos of the sights and the occasional random-girl-from-Paris-wearing/modelling-a-*oBST-shirt pic. We'll also be uploading podcasts from the trip, as well as posting an occasional Travel Journal on what each of us thinks/loves/hates about the city we're in at the time. And, of course, anything else we can thinks of as we go along! (Ooh, I just thought of some great ideas already: we'll upload an interactive Google Map plotting our travelling--and how about a Guess Where We Are In This Picture contest?

Also, I'll be posting a tagboard/ discussion forum so that whoever wants to give out some tips for places to go in Europe while we're there can. In the meantime, here's an interesting map pic from a really great "map-making" site called WorldMapper. For the statistical numbers behind this particular map, checkout their site.

Map of the World, As Seen Through Travel Destinations (map courtesty of WorldMapper)