Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker is headed home to Los Angeles via a specially equipped bus after being discharged from a hospital in Augusta, Ga.

He's being accompanied by his ex-wife, Shanna Moakler, and will be admitted to an L.A.-area hospital when he arrives.

Travis wanted to be closer to his home and children, according to reports, and that's why he's traveling.

He still has a long way to go in terms of recovery.

Meanwhile, DJ AM, who was released from the hospital last week, attended Monday's memorial for Chris "Little Chris" Baker, who died in the plane crash that he and Travis survived. Chris was Travis' assistant.

In photos taken at the memorial, AM is wearing a green shirt, as requested by Chris' widow because it was his favorite color.

We're going to keep sending up prayers for Travis and AM.

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We're also keeping Heather Locklear on our prayer list.

Director Jim Amatulli, who wrote and directed Heather's coming film, "Flying By," called her DUI arrest last weekend "sad."

"It is very easy to see the effects of the 'show-biz' environment, and the stress it puts on relationships and families," he told the NY Daily News.

He said Heather was very professional on the set and that her performance moved some of the crew to tears.

Wow, never thought we'd hear those words applied to Heather.

You just hang in there, girlfriend. Joy cometh in the morning.

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Today, actor/rapper Bow Wow (he dropped the "Lil" a while ago) is putting his feet where his mouth is.

Ewww. That sounds gross.

Actually, he's helping to kick off Walk Across America, a campaign to get young people to vote.

The 21-year-old entertainer, who has an album coming out in December, is working with two nonpartisan groups, Declare Yourself and Black Youth.

He'll be voting for the first time this year and wants to make sure his counterparts across the country do the same.

Anyway, the walk (some folks will be riding a bus) gets started in Atlanta and includes a number of cities including D.C. and Philly.

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Congrats to actress Joely Fisher and her hubby, Christopher Duddy, who adopted a baby girl.

The new baby, Olivia Luna Fisher-Duddy, joins her big sisters, Skylar Grace and True Harlow. Olivia's also got some really big brothers, Cameron, 22, and Colin, 20, who are Christopher's sons from a previous marriage.

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Look for these on eBay.

Pop singer Katy Perry, who had people singing about kissing a girl even if that's not their thing, is coming out with a special-edition doll of her own likeness.

Girlfriend worked with Integrity Toys out of New York to design the mini-diva, which will be released this week and sell for $49.99.

There are only 500 of them, so, like we said, you can bet SOMEBODY will be selling some on eBay.

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No less an authority than VH1 thinks folks oughta know the San Francisco band Thriving Ivory, so we caught up recently with lead singer Clayton Stroope.

Clayton and the boys will be here Friday at Strummers Nite Club on Smallman Street in the Strip.

They've got that anthemic rock sound going on, as demonstrated by their single "Angels on the Moon," which has been getting a lot of airplay. It's also in the VH1 video rotation.

"A lot of it still hasn't sunk in yet," Clayton said of his group's newfound celebrity. "The TV stuff, the VH1 stuff, is still weird.

"Just the thought that our song is on the radio on the other side of the country and people are hearing it, we're still not used to it, but it's a trip."

The guys first performed at parties in Santa Barbara, where they were going to college. "We weren't very serious at first," Clayton said.

But the group started playing shows, and folks started reacting positively to the music, and Clayton and they thought they could do something with this music thing.

With emotional and financial support from their parents, the guys started recording songs.

"Having no money, we had a little home recording gear in our dorm room," Clayton recalled. "We recorded a couple of six-song EPs."

There were also a lot of songs they'd recorded that weren't on the EPs, so they ended compiling some of the stuff they recorded, and for the most part it is the record they have out now.

Of course, there was a little remixing and remastering done once they signed up with Windup Records. And even though they tried to go into the studio and do a better version of "Angels on the Moon," they couldn't beat the version they did in the basement.