Heard about 'fund my roadtrip' Craze?

[Piper]

I live in the UK and over the past few months have heard about 'fund my roadtrip' thing where 4 students are going to roadtrip America in the summer.

Its gradually been growing in the UK. There has even been rumours of a book deal. Basically they are looking for support from the world and i heard about a web site www.fundmyroadtrip.com- but when i got to it its not up! Hopefully soon.

Just wondering if any USA people have heard of it before?????

Its certainly a bit different

[Mark Sedenquist]

I live in the UK and over the past few months have heard about 'fund my roadtrip' thing where 4 students are going to roadtrip America in the summer.

We think it is a gimick and not a well-structured one -- someone contacted us and asked for sponsorship funding -- We will watch it and see what develops, but at this point we are not very impressed.

Mark