He also happens to be on Google Wave.

Here are some examples of how we have been organising the trip using Google Wave.

We created a new wave to discuss everything from Hotel bookings and itinerary. Generally, we co-ordinate so that we are using it at the same time – its so much more fun that way! Seeing the words fly across the screen, posting links and discussing what hotels we’ve found.

Its a lot better than IM since there is a permanent record. One of the problems I’ve found that is that I would rather keep continuing to use the same Wave. I only want to start a new Wave if its a completely new topic.

However, Dom created a new Wave for planning our itinenary and used the Trippy Plugin. Trippy is a cool plugin from Lonely Planet. You fill out what you will do each day and then plot your hotel locations, attractions, etc.. on a Google Map. It auto- finds it based on your description of the address or title, except it wasnt correct with the Cu Chi Tunnels! For some reason it selected North Vietnam? There must be a Cu Chi up there.

You can also create multiple trip itinerary. Say for example I was going for 5 days to Hong Kong in addition to Vietnam, I can make another schedule in the same plugin. Very cool!

Overall, I found that using Google Wave was a lot more fun and collaborative than email. Email is back and forth, whereas Wave is interactive. Although you can work on a Wave separately, I prefer being there on the opposite end and doing real time updates.

I see this as a great way to work with a bunch of different people e.g. a large group sharing an itinerary and posting up files, map locations, etc…

If your using Wave for travel plans, I’d like to hear your examples too!

Cheers,

Matt