Amtrekker
Hey Team,
I’m an unemployed vagrant. All I have is a backpack full of technology, a shoestring budget and a very important list. When everything is crossed off my list I get to go home! Let me know if you want to trade one of those shoestrings for help. brett@amtrekker.com
See where
Amtrekker's been for the last 506 days.
See where Amtrekker's been for the last 506 days.

  1. Tube down a river
  2. Ride a horse through a covered bridge
  3. Sleep in a lighthouse
  4. Learn survival skills
  5. Enter a hot dog eating contest
  6. Walk to the top of the Empire State Building
  7. See a live taping of The Colbert Report
  8. See a game at Fenway Park
  9. Milk a cow on an Amish farm
  10. Wade through a cranberry bog
  11. Go into a coal mine
  12. Take part in a Civil War reenactment
  13. Race dirt bikes
  14. Make Moonshine
  15. Hitchhike
  16. Learn to Sail
  17. Try my hand at kiteboarding
  18. Pet a sloth
  19. Help out on a plantation
  20. Learn to run a 3 card monte game
  21. Tell Donald Trump "You're Fired."
  22. Be a guest on a talk show
  23. Hang gliding
  24. Be part of a stage illusion
  25. Be in a movie
  26. Experience Comic Con
  27. Go on a lobster boat
  28. SCUBA dive in the Atlantic
  29. Drive a race car
  30. Go to an obscure small town festival
  31. River kayak
  32. Geocache in all 48 contiguous states
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  33. Collect honey from a beehive
  34. Scale the lowest highest point in a state
  35. Arkansas Crater of diamonds state park and look for a diamond
  36. Ride the fastest roller coaster in the country
  37. Go through a hedge maze
  38. Catch a firefly
  39. Motorcycle Rally
  40. Ride a cow
  41. Sandboarding
  42. Ride an ostrich
  43. Create a crop circle
  44. Fly fishing
  45. Swamp boat ride with gators
  46. See a movie at the Alamo Draft House
  47. Tour the Crayola Factory
  48. Ben and Jerry's Flavor Graveyard
  49. See a Freak Show
  50. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon


A New Day’s Resolution:

Hey Team,

Why wait for another new year to make a resolution? In that spirit here’s my New Day’s Resolution:

In an effort to bring a little more consistency to the Amtrekker site, from now on new video content will be posted every Wednesday by 6pm PST. (Yes, I am going to regret saying that as soon as I hit the send button…but as long as type fast enough I wont regret it until AFTER I hit that button and by then it will be too late! MuhHAHAHA!)

I’ll be able to post the Sandboarding video before Wednesday so I’ll have to come up with another one for “Video Content Wednesday” (That’s a terrible name, someone please hurt me if I ever call it that again.

The idea here is to give you guys a better idea of what my life is like and still give me a chance to not be strapped to Charley editing video 24/7 while maintaining a deadline and thus (yeah, I used the word thus…so what?) a little urgency in the work.

This doesn’t preclude a second video in the week if something exciting happens. Rather, no matter what, you guys get a new video on Wednesday, if I cross something off the list then (Ka-Kow!) that’s what you get. If nothing gets crossed off then you’ll get something similar to those Day in the Life videos or TASTHIB. But it will probably take a little more of the “This-is-what-I’m-TRYING-to-do-to-get-something-crossed-off-the-list” tone.

So, be happy! Be excited! And someone please tell me where I should be going next!

I’m done.

Brett.

If you like what you heard then make a donation to make sure things get to keep happening!


Don’t let me stop you.


8 Comments »

  1. Oh! Well thats exciting! But I have seen you all stressed out with that video stuff…GOODLUCK!

    Comment by Jess — January 26, 2008 @ 11:48 pm

  2. Another thing. Next time I meet you, I would like it to be Seattle.

    Somebody in Seattle help find something to knock off the list! Any rivers in that area? How about ostriches? :)

    Comment by Jess — January 27, 2008 @ 12:48 am

  3. I say hop on the fanboat funwagon and breeze across the marshy swampy dumpy frumpy floridian wetlands! That’s one that requires little thought! Then get on your scuba snack and b-b-bust it out little man!

    also, if you misspell Wednesday with a V you at least get the alliteration points. scratch that - point. just the one…just to see how it feels.
    Video Vednesday! I musht be fvrickin’ kidding me! I’m dutch! Ishn’t dat vierd!?

    Comment by ilott the douchebag — January 27, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

  4. also - didn’t you say the lowest high point is in FL? Damn, son! problem solving is my middle name. So is rufus.

    Comment by ilott the douchebag — January 27, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

  5. I am so totally on the Florida bandwaggon! You can knock off fanboats, lowest highest point, and scuba diving in the Atlantic as Ilott was so astute in pointing out, but while you’re there I bet you could find some totally boss rednecks, become their leader, and then convince them that the fatcat northerners are raping their babies and then get them to secede from the Union. Why settle for a Civil War reenactment when you can start a whole new civil war!? Then you’ll be the subject of a new motion picture biography, you might have to river kayak to freedom, or ride an ostrich to freedom. Man, be inventive!

    Comment by georgerocks — January 28, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

  6. That’s some good solid advice there folks. Especially the bit about starting a war.

    As chance would have it though, it looks like I may be headed to the good ol’ SLC. Word.

    Comment by Brett — January 28, 2008 @ 9:39 pm

  7. If you do go to Salt Lake City then you HAVE to yell obsenities at the Mormons. That’s how I kept myself entertained through most of high school. What are you crossing off in in the ‘Tah?

    Comment by georgerocks — January 29, 2008 @ 11:56 am

  8. Also if you make it to SLC. I know the couchsurfers you should stay with!

    Comment by Mikey — January 29, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

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