Ever wished you could quit that day job, leave it all behind and hit the road?
Ever wondered what it would be like to live, work and travel while discovering a country, a continent and its people?
OOAworld Travel Journeys Around the World
Welcome to OOAworld, featuring creative and multimedia content from Ooa Revo’s long form continental journeys around the world. These include the year-long USA Road Trip where it all began, an equally lengthy Journey through Asia, an equivalent Journey through South America, and other long-form travels through Europe, Africa, Oceania and the Middle East.
OOAworld Creative Media and Storytelling
The creative works that resulted including photos, film, videos, writing, art, and more can be browsed here on OOAworld, and each journey can be followed chronologically.
OOAworld Travels and Travel Tips By Country
The OOAworld Travel section by Rolling Coconut features travel guides, travel tips, reviews, itineraries and more practical travel information in addition to the OOA journeys and creative media. All Travel content and stories can also be browsed by country.
The OOAworld Creative Works
The aims are, on paper, relatively simple: promote open exchange of ideas between people of all tides, as well as tolerance and peaceful thinking.
There are several main background projects which have accompanied the creation of OOAworld and its artistic content.
OOAworld Movie: “What’s Your Philosophy of Life”
One is a film / documentary featuring interviews of the very different people met along the way, asking them one common question: “What’s your philosophy of life?” (Watch the unofficial ooAmerica trailer below), as well as to “Tales of Strangers,” asking people to share a story of their choice.
OOAworld Creative Works: Novels, Photo Books, Short Films, Photo-Montages
The other main background projects include written novels and photo-books from the travels, short films and other artwork, as well as a series of large photo-montages.
I hope to eventually post more about the photographic approach, and, more generally speaking, the approach to these journeys.
OOAworld.com initially debuted as the ooamerica blog, a lot of road has been covered since!
The site’s content can be browsed by following each OOA continental journey or by browsing the different media above.
The OOAworld Travel section can be used to browse all stories by country. It includes travel tips, reviews and itineraries by Rolling Coconut in addition to creative media by Ooa Revo.
Readers and friends are welcome to contribute in any way and by connecting on Facebook, Instagram, subscribing on YouTube and Twitter. Fellow travelers, bloggers and media can help share and spread the word.
Want to learn more about OOAworld? Check out the FAQ page and About Us and stay in touch by subscribing to our updates, or learn about our other activities from our VR/AR/XR production studios (augmented reality, mixed reality virtual reality and 360 video).
Thanks for your support!
Start with ooAmerica, a 25,000 mile USA Road Trip across the United States. Launch into ooAsia, a year-long journey across all of Asia. Or browse stories by types of media and travel destinations.
Thank you for following Indifferent Ignorance 🙂
🙂 Hope you follow the upcoming trip!
Wonderful jourey you are on – may you meat lots of tolerance, interest, insight, love, respect and amazing people on your way!
Travel safe, have fun!
Cecilie
Hi Cecile, thank you, look forward to all of the above!
I loved traveling across the country. Every state I have been to has its own special beauty. Those are memories to share and no one can take from you. I like your blog and thank you for liking and following mine.
Hi and thanks for following! Hope to stay in touch. Best.
Sweet concept. My fiance and I were JUST pipe-dreaming about that today. We wanna get one of these: http://www.americanteardrop.com/Photos.htm and drive from our New England back to Seattle together.
That sounds like a dream! Hope you get one of those and make the trip! Thanks!
Thanks for following. Amazing journey. Happy travels. 🙂
Thanks, look forward to reading more. Should be back on the road soon. 🙂
WOW! Fantastic idea! Probably less dangerous than trying it on the other side of the world…
Thanks for following my blog. Loved the trailer. Keep shooting!
Thanks! Will keep shooting and sharing. As for other sides of the world… in time? 🙂
“Ever wished you could quit that day job, leave it all behind and hit the road?” You bet. There are sooooo many places in the USA I would like to go. Just one problem. I live in the UK!
If that video was all your own work, it is awesome, dude (as you might well say). In fact, it is just awesome, period. What a brilliant concept too (asking all the people that question).
Best wishes for completion of the project.
Wow!
Sweet idea and even sweeter that you’ve done so much! I envy you (in the I’m glad you’ve done because I can do it vicariously through you even though I wish I had the balls to try it for myself kinda way)!
lol
Hi! Thanks for your support and stay tuned for part 2! 🙂
My husband and I love to travel around our country and the world. This is a fascinating project, thanks for sharing it :)! And thanks for the follow :)!
Hi Jess, thanks for your support and you’re welcome for the follow! 🙂
A journey from my armchair – covers everything I need on a weekend. Rest and adventure. Well done you!
Hi and thanks! Happy to share, and more soon!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I look forward to following your journey!
Thanks! Should be back on the road soon!
I have basically decided that you are living my dream. You have traveled around the United States via van, talked to a bunch of interesting people about their lives and philosophies, and have captured it all to share with others. I’m so glad that you stopped by my blog and decided to follow me just for the fact that I got to find out about this project of yours!
Wow! Thanks! Stay tuned for part 2… 🙂
Fantastic trailer! Look fwd to receiving your blog posts.
Thanks! part 2 is coming up soon.
Hey there! Thanks for following my blog, mrs. hines class. I really enjoyed watching your trailer…I look forward to updates as a new follower.
Sharon
Hi Sharon! It’s nice to meet you, I look forward to staying in touch.
this is the most interesting idea I’ve heard in a long time! I will be following your project from now on! thanks for the visit and follow to my humble blog…
this is a real adventure!
Hi Jeannie and thank you for visiting! I look forward to sharing more soon.
what an adventure! can’t wait to hear more about it…
the second journey is nearing… thanks for your support!
Great trailer, I look forward to following your journey. You look like you are living your dream, good luck!
Thank you!
Great trailer. I look forward to following your journey. Happy trails to you.
Thanks! Will be sharing more soon.
Tx for following my blog. Cheers dude, this is amazing. THIS is what it’s all about…. pure vision. 13 years ago I though about doing something similar (but had no money or a drivers license, just pipe dreams.)
AWESOME.
Hi, thanks for your support! Happy to share and looking forward to be back on the road. Cheers!
Thanks for the follow! I’ve enjoyed looking through your blog, and look forward to hearing/seeing about more of your adventure!
Thanks for liking my blog. I did enjoy the video and yes I’ve thought about a lot of those things. Still do but with a different freedom these days
Thank you. Hope you’ll follow the upcoming road-trip.
Thanks for dropping by my site. I wish I could also travel as much as you do. : )
Hi! It’s been great to have this opportunity to travel, I hope to be able to share more stories soon. Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for the follow. Your blog is amazing and I look forward to following your incredible journey!
Hi Rachel, it’s nice to meet you. Thanks for your support and enthusiasm! 🙂
Thanks for following my blog. You have an awesome one here. Hope to visit America one day…
Hi, thanks for visiting. Happy to help when you do visit America :). Hope you follow the upcoming journey.
Just watched your trailer & I think it’s great. Can’t wait to see more! Thanks for reading my little blog- I do know what it’s like to leave it all behind and travel solo for an extended period of time. I find myself pausing for a half a second every time I say out loud “I travel. full time.” Good luck and be safe on the road…
Thanks for your support! I look forward to stay in touch and share stories. Best wishes to you.
Great stuff! I’m glad you found my blog so that I could find yours! Hope our paths will cross someday so we can swap stories 🙂
Thanks! It’s nice to ‘meet’ you, and I hope we get to meet some day! 🙂
Thanks for following my blog, especially since its allowed me to discover yours. Ooamerica is a righteous vision and the work well done (so far). To me, it’s your reinvention of “lighting out for the Territory,” as Huck Finn says: a classic Ur-American guy-thing rediscovered by every generation — remember antique TV shows like Route 66, beatniks On The Road, and the Merry Pranksters’ Magic Bus Further? Anyway, “This land is your land.” Best of luck always.
Hello, and thank you for your kind comment. As you say, the American journey, and more recently the USA road-trip, has been a recurrent theme, built upon through several generations! Happy to be following with baby steps in the legacy of the mammoths you mention! 🙂 Thanks.
What an interesting project! Looks like you drove pretty near to my neck of the woods – SW Minnesota. Thanks for stopping by my blog! I’ll have to check out more of your posts…
Hi Gretchen! Minnesota is one of the few states I unfortunately didn’t get to visit! (closest I got to was Sioux Falls, and was there only very briefly). I hope to visit some of the northern states in the future, but sadly don’t yet know when). Thanks!
Well, Sioux Falls looks exactly like it does here in SW MN, so unless you get to Northern MN you haven’t missed much! It’s beautiful in Duluth and north along Lake Superior, though – definitely adding to your future itinerary!
That’s one of the beautiful surprises of road-trips – many neighboring places may look alike, but there’s always that unique and beautiful haven somewhere!
Anyway I really hope to visit these states one day, especially for the photo project, and probably won’t feel this is completed till I do! Will stay in touch!
You are living my dream! Go for it and make it great, I want to see it on the big screen! Show the basic goodness of humankind, that’s more important than what is on the news.
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! It would be very exciting if the project could help, if only slightly, inspire the ‘goodness’ you’re referring to. Will be sharing more soon.
Hi Ooamerica,
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for subscribing to it. It gave me a chance to check out yours. I watched the video of you interviewing different people and it reminded me of how much I used to enjoy travelling. The great thing about travel is meeting different people, the food, art and culture and of course, the scenery. I used to live in America but only visited a handful of places.
I will be sure to check out more of your posts. Safe travels.
NTW
Hello NTW! Thanks for your support! (it’s ‘ooa’ :))
Happy to share these stories; I always enjoy hearing when they evoke good memories to people!
Will be back on the road soon. Best.
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I have nominated you for a Versatile Blogger award, because I just think this is the best thing I have yet seen on WordPress. Therefore, if you choose to accept the Award (or you can just decline this light-hearted nonsense and delete this comment), there are a few things you are required to do:
— Create a new post on your blog with the Award logo at the top/centre.
— Thank the one who nominated you.
— Nominate 12 to 15 other bloggers.
— Share 7 random facts about yourself.
— Inform each nominee.
— Add a thumbnail of the Award logo to your Home Page (optional)
Accordingly, after 03:02 hrs GMT on Wednesday 8 February 2012, you will be able to see what I said about you and/or your blog in my post in which you are nominated at…
http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/versa-bloga-warda-wina/
Hi Martin! Thank you very much for this amazing nomination! I’m greatly honored. Okay, that’s what I thought when I first glimpsed this comment.
Then I clicked on the link to your post and fell right out of my chair and through the wall when I saw you maybe meant your comment as more than a figure of speech! So this is a heartfelt thanks: I’ll mention you in the next post and will give thought to the questions above.
I hope you stay tuned for the upcoming journey and look forward to staying in touch. Thanks again!
Great site. Thanks for stopping by my site as it led me to yours, and yours is wonderful. As someone who belonged to a vintage Volkwagen club that rides all over in “older” VW’s, it is truly a different perspective of the world when cruising it in the back of VW Westy or VW Samba. You meet so many people that way as you have. In my books I have vowed to try and incorporate my small community in California’s high desert so people might be curious and pay us desert folk a visit. Keep up the great work.
Hi! Thanks for sharing – I now am suddenly compelled to get an old VW! Look forward to sharing more soon.
There’s nothing like the open road, although I prefer sleeping in hotels to cars. What a great idea!
And thanks for following my blog!
Thanks! the second road-trip should be a bit more ‘comfortable’, will be accompanied by a friend and focusing on the film, so hopefully more rest in hotels! 🙂
This is so amazing and inspirational.
I’ve really enjoyed lookig through your blog so far and can’t wait to see the rest of your adventure. Good luck with your documentary!
Also thank you for following my blog 🙂
Thank you! More very soon!
That map looks a lot like the path I have already traveled. I think there are only about five states in the USA that I haven’t been to yet. Although I have to say, I’ve slept in cars, and in hotels…I usually like sleeping in the hotel. Comfort, plus indoor plumbing :).
Hi Capri, nice to share travel stories with you. Should be a bit more comfortable during part 2, a few more hotels – especially appreciate the added hygiene…
Very interested. Watched the first 2 videos and enjoyed the idea of what your doing or have done. Do the rest of the videos have a beginning and ending video 1, video 2 etc.. Don’t have the time to do more right now but will be back.
Thanks! The current video series (part 1) are short clips that I pieces together along the way – they were an attempt to log some of the travels and practice editing / different kinds of rhythms and atmospheres, and have hopefully improved along the way.
The videos during part 2 will probably follow in the order of the current chapters but will be more focused, so stay tuned!
Thanks! The current video series (part 1) are short clips that I pieced together along the way – they were an attempt to log some of the travels and practice editing / different kinds of rhythms and atmospheres, and have hopefully improved along the way.
The videos during part 2 will probably follow in the order of the current chapters but will be more focused, so stay tuned!
Amazing work! And what an amazing project on top of it. Cheers!
Thanks! Part 2 approaching quickly. Cheers!
Amazing! Looking forward to reading more.
Hi Kate! Thanks, will be updating shortly as part 2 nears.
Beautiful! Making a mark in the world. (:
Thanks! 🙂 more soon!
Thanks for following Lots of Lists! Glad you stopped by!
You have quite the interesting project going here. I wish you all the luck and hope that you turn your clips into a full fledged documentary. I want to see you on Netflix.
Hi! Thank you very much for your support, will give it my all to make the documentary come true. Clips and footage during part 2 should be more focused with this purpose in mind. Look forward to sharing more soon.
Great project and great blog to tell about it. Close to my heart, in fact — thank you!
Thank you! Hope we get to share more soon! 🙂
hey ~ thanks for following my blog 🙂
this is *such* an awesome idea & your art and photos are great! you’ve obviously put a lot of care into this and i envy you the trip (i’ve recently moved to the UK and miss the states with a vengeance!). . . one day, either with a van or just a couple backpacks, my husband and i will do this 🙂 we’ll probably start in europe tho (plane tickets and all). . .
really glad i got a chance to see this.
best of wishes,
~kate
Hi Kate, thanks for your support! I hope to hear from you when you do that trip with your husband! 🙂 will be sharing more soon.
Very interesting concept. Great website. I really enjoy the content. I hope one day to take a road-trip of this sort. Keep up the great work.
Thank you Mr Progress! 🙂
Absolutely stunning photographs. Thanks for visiting my blog. I did an American trip as well. If you feel like seeing my photo-story, chek out this direct link oto my blog: rawview.wordpress.com/blogroll/luka-rone_memorylaneintheusa/
Luka
Hi Luka, thanks! (curious readers should check out the link, it’s a PDF file.)
What a great project! Yes I have at times wanted just to wander the country like this. 🙂
Thanks also for following my blog! 🙂
Thanks, should be back on the road soon! 🙂
Great blog!! I enjoyed it very much!!!! Thanks for visiting mine!!
Hi Norma, thanks! Hope you’ll follow part 2!
Wow! Amazing Talent and Ingenuity!
Thanks for Visiting/following my blog!
I will be lifting you up in Prayer!
God Bless
Thank you for your support!
Thanks for following my blog. You have an awesome one here.-KP
Thanks Kevin, hope to share more soon.