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
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  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


Nature’s Plot to Make Me Look Stupid:

Hey Team,

I fully expected to be on a long miserable bus ride to Salt Lake City right now. Unfortunately Greyhound and nature had other ideas. Apparently the roads to SLC are closed due to snow right now so I have to wait until morning to catch a train instead.

This is especially good news since this is the first week I’ve said, “Every Wednesday 6pm PST blah blah blah.” (Sometimes sarcasm just doesn’t come off the way you want it to in the interwebs.)

So here I am. Sitting. Waiting. More importantly, I have no videos ready to upload tomorrow and no startlingly interesting footage to cut up and show off. On the other hand this is almost exactly the kind of thing I was hoping having a timeslot would force me into, although to a much more stressful degree.

So basically I have T-Minus 16 hours to show you people a slice of the Amtrekker life and upload it despite the extremely spotty connections I tend to get on trains. Wish me luck!

Either way I’m excited by the prospect of showing off something other than me falling on my face for the first time in weeks!

Okay, onward and upward.

I’m done.

Brett.

If you like seeing me squirm, what ever you do, DON’T make a donation.


Seriously.


This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 3:32 am.

5 Comments »

  1. HA! You’re like bizzaro donner party trying to get INTO Utah in the snow. Don’t go canibalistic on my now Brett, or what’s the bizzaro form of canibalism? Babies. Don’t go having any babies on me Brett!

    Comment by georgerocks — January 30, 2008 @ 9:35 am

  2. You don’t need nature to look stupid!

    Comment by Mikey — January 30, 2008 @ 2:36 pm

  3. Ouch. Wicked burn.

    Comment by Brett — January 30, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

  4. Are you in a Greyhound Bus station hanging out with the sex offenders again?

    They might get nervous if they see a camera, you better watch out!

    If it wasn’t against all sorts of federal criminal statutes, I’d totally send you a mace…

    Comment by Judy — January 30, 2008 @ 4:39 pm

  5. I rolled with a higher class today. Amtrak = fancy pants.

    Comment by Brett — January 31, 2008 @ 6:05 am

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