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For those of you whom may have read the Interview with Isaiah and not heard about "TRAVI the Traveller", I decided I had better get off my duff and include a page here about Travi and his visit with Trotter in June of 2007.

Programmed by Matthias Luedtke to work on the Atari 7800, Travi the Traveller was started up by Walter Lauer and Shawn Davis, Sr. Like Trotter, Travi is also traveling from host to host, except that it is designed to work only with an Atari 7800 console, and initially just for the 7800 community. It has since branched out to others in the retrogaming hobby. With Trotter's blessing, Travi started his own global journey in February 2007.

Managed by Walter Lauer, Travi came to visit Trotter in his hometown of Orem, Utah and neighboring Provo in June. Trotter and Travi became fast friends and shared good times together, swapping stories of their adventures in exotic places. Travi congratulated Trotter on his milestone of releasing the Silver Trotter Limited Edition, commemorating 50 hosts at that point in Trotter's journey. Before they parted, they agreed they should cross paths again at some point in their future travels.

Shortly after Travi's visit, In July, Walter Lauer announced that Travi would have a game of his own and would be making a limited release on cartridge. The proceeds for this release would go to a charitable cause: to support the monks of a Buddhist temple in Thailand known for helping the local children with things they need. The game was a clever hack of the homebrew game "Gosub" by Chris Read, but with new mazes. The game was programmed using batariBasic, a "programming language" written by Fred Quimby to facilitate creating games for the Atari 2600 (most 2600 games can also work on the 7800 system). Shawn Davis, Sr. built the cartridges. Much interest was shown for this game and it sold quickly. In January 2008, Travi and Walter journeyed to the temple in Nakhon Sawan and donated the proceeds from the sale of the game to the monks in person.