When Andy Malone, 30, and Rebecca Grixti landed in New York on June 22nd, they had no itinerary planned for their trip across America. “We want to do what the Americans do on normal days and normal weekend” said Malone, who is from Dublin, Ireland.
      6月22日，當(dāng)30歲的安迪•馬龍和麗貝卡•格里斯蒂到達(dá)紐約時(shí)，他們壓根兒沒(méi)有為橫跨美國(guó)的旅程計(jì)劃好路線。“我們想做美國(guó)人在平時(shí)及普通周末時(shí)所做的事情，”來(lái)自愛(ài)爾蘭都柏林的馬龍說(shuō)。

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      And what better way to do that than to leave all of the planning and travel decisions to the American people? “We're putting the faith of our trip in other peoples' hand and it's worked out amazingly so far,” Malone said. Malone and Grixti, who are friends and work as travel consultant came up with the concept that's guiding them from their starting point in New York to their final destination in Nevada at the end of August. “Ten week two people, one direction: You Decide Where,” said Grixti, of Melbourne, Australia.
      還有什么其他方式比把所有的計(jì)劃及旅游決定留給美國(guó)人自己去做更好呢？“我們把旅行的決定權(quán)交到其他人手里，到目前為止，效果非常不錯(cuò)，”馬龍說(shuō)。既是朋友，又同為旅游顧問(wèn)的馬龍和格里斯蒂一起想到了這個(gè)主意。就是這個(gè)主意指引他們以紐約作為出發(fā)點(diǎn)，然后于8月底到達(dá)位于內(nèi)華達(dá)州的最終目的地。“十個(gè)星期，兩個(gè)人，一個(gè)方向：‘你來(lái)決定去哪里’，”來(lái)自澳大利亞墨爾本的格里斯蒂說(shuō)道。

      You Decide Where, www.youdecidewhere.com, is a social networking experiment Malone and Grixti set up before coming to the United States using websites such as CouchSurfing.org, Facebook and Google Buzz. The site allow followers to suggest and/or invite the pair to U.S. cities and towns. People often offer free places to crash or advice on where to go, what to eat and what to do. “It's different than planning your hostels and planning where you're going to go—it's just a complete adventure, and we've met some brilliant people doing it,” Malone said.
      “你決定去哪里”（www.youdecidewhere.com）是馬龍和格里斯蒂在來(lái)美國(guó)之前，利用諸如CouchSurfing.org, 臉譜網(wǎng)以及Google Buzz這些網(wǎng)站建立起來(lái)的一個(gè)試驗(yàn)性社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)。這些網(wǎng)站，允許關(guān)注者建議以及/或者邀請(qǐng)這對(duì)同伴到美國(guó)的一些市鎮(zhèn)去旅游。人們通常會(huì)提供免費(fèi)住宿的地方或者提供有關(guān)去哪里，吃什么，做什么的建議。“這跟那種一早計(jì)劃好住宿以及去哪里的經(jīng)歷很不同——這完全就是一次冒險(xiǎn)，我們遇到了很多很不錯(cuò)的人也在這么做，”馬龍說(shuō)。

      The adventure has so far led the friends to Harlem, N.Y., where, a woman suggested they go see Shakespeare in the Park. That led to seven hours of camping out to get free tickets to Merchants of Venice, starring  Al Pacino. Then it was on to Times Square. “Someone got in touch with us and said to show up at 6 p.m. in Times Square and to bring bubble gun you know, like the bubble guns you get when you're a kid,” Malone said. “We arrived there, got off the subway and about 100 people  flashmobbed in for this bubble party, and we got to be five years old again.”
      目前，這次冒險(xiǎn)已引領(lǐng)這對(duì)朋友去了紐約的哈萊姆區(qū)。在那里，一位女士建議他們?nèi)タ垂珗@里上演的莎士比亞戲劇。最終，他們通宵露營(yíng)排了七個(gè)小時(shí)的隊(duì)才拿到阿爾•帕西諾主演的《威尼斯商人》的免費(fèi)門票。然后他們又來(lái)到時(shí)代廣場(chǎng)。“有人與我們聯(lián)系，告訴我們下午6點(diǎn)在時(shí)代廣場(chǎng)出現(xiàn)，還要帶上泡泡槍，就是你還是小孩時(shí)拿的那種泡泡槍，”馬龍說(shuō)道，“我們到達(dá)那里，出了地鐵就發(fā)現(xiàn)有100人涌到那里上演了一幕泡泡槍‘快閃’派對(duì)。我們仿佛又重回到了五歲。”
 

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