on the luck of seven was an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo, a new york city based activist, organizer, barcamper and coworker.
for seven months, he traversed the globe. using a new media voodo (blog, vlog, wiki, flickr, couchsurfing, twitter, myspace, dopplr, and facebook), noneck harnessed the collective knowledge of the internet, and report on seven topics of freedom. this trip was funded by 253 people and supported, house, fed, and loved by countless others.
that event always fascinated me. glad I could enjoy it by proxy.
Try the thrift stores for that winter coat, seems to me that's how my boyfriend dealt with eastern Europe after India on his round-the-world trip.