AUGUSTA – Forget Where’s Waldo. Where’s Molly?

As promised, Angus King hit the road in his new land yacht with his family last Thursday, the day after Gov. John Baldacci was sworn in as King’s successor. And while Democrat Baldacci was holding open house at the Blaine House, the computer-happy ex-guv was inviting people in for a cyber tour of his rolling abode.

The former two-term governor’s Web site, wheresmolly.com, will track his family’s planned 51/2-month journey that will roughly follow the perimeter of the contiguous states.

The Web site bears the name of his 9-year-old daughter, Molly, who along with 12-year-old brother Ben is being home-schooled by mother Mary Herman and King during the trip in the family’s Dutch Star recreational vehicle.

Portions of the Web site, including “Ben’s Corner,” were still under construction as of Monday. But other links, such as one describing the 40-foot RV right down to the floor plan, are complete.

The site is also replete with color pictures, such as one showing the cockpit, or “command center,” which features a TV built in above the center of the windshield.

“Don’t worry, the TV is wired so it won’t work while we’re under way,” King says in the site. “The little TV in the dash is the rearview mirror; there’s a camera on the back but even so, I plan to do as little backing-up as possible.”

The itinerary shows a map of the United States with a bold red line tracking the planned route. The family is proceeding in a clockwise direction, and plans to reach South Carolina by the end of this month, California by the end of April, Montana by the end of May and home in Maine in June.

It won’t be all driving all the time. King and his family plan to kick back for four or five days at a time at RV parks at certain destinations along the way. The family minivan is being pulled by the RV.

The Web site is a natural leap for King, a political independent who drew international attention to Maine for his dogged effort to make a laptop computers available to every seventh- and eighth-grader in the state.

The program is in its first year.

On the Net:

Where’s Molly?: http:///www.wheresmolly.com/