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Roads From the Ashes - An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Roads From the Ashes - An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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When a wildfire destroyed her home and worldly possessions in the
hills above Los Angeles, it didn't take Megan Edwards long to
recognize an opportunity. It took her husband a little longer
("Give me five minutes to grieve!"), but they were both soon
planning to make the most of their sudden "stufflessness" and hit
the road. They did so a few months later in a freshly built
four-wheel-drive motorhome that was even more unusual because of
the office in the back instead of a bedroom. This all happened back
when "Internet" had not yet entered the lexicon but "email" had.
The mobile office would allow Edwards to file stories with the
newspapers she wrote for by cell phone. That was the idea, at
least. At the beginning of 1994, cell service was patchy,
unreliable, and expensive. They also thought they'd be traveling
for six months or so, when, they believed, they'd settle down and
get back to normal. But five years and thousands of miles later,
they were still on the road. In that time, they'd watched the
Internet grow from a mysterious fad prized by people in remote
locales into an unstoppable universal phenomenon. They started a
website, RoadTripAmerica.com, to share road tripping tips and
ideas. Slowly, their dream of being "at work, at home, and on the
road, all at the same grand time" became a reality. This edition
marks the twentieth anniversary of Edwards's memoir, which was
first released in 1999. At its heart a story of making lemonade
when life gives you lemons, this memoir is also a riveting and at
times hilarious look at the early years of the World Wide Web. With
a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Chris Epting,
enjoy an armchair adventure across North America when the Internet
was young. This edition also includes 22 photos dating from when
the author lived on the road.
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