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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


Disneylanding:

Hey Team,

What a great day of Disneylanding! Now THAT is how time should be killed (or at least maimed and left for dead). It’s hard to beat roaming around the happiest place on Earth with friends and seeing all those old acquaintances I thought were long gone while being sucked into the most impressive fantasy world ever created…unless of course you also happened to grab the number one spot for the day in the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters attraction!

Galactic Hero!

Yeah, you heard right. I’m a galactic hero…wanna make something of it?!

Didn’t think so.

Honestly though, I absolutely love that place. I’m reasonably sure my career with the company is over but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for those theme parks. Say what you will about how “evil” and “corporate” Disney is but if they can turn a profit while bringing smiles to the faces of millions upon millions of park-goers and their kids every year then there’s no way they can be all bad.

You really just can’t help but smile on a day like yesterday. Granted I am a HUGE geek when it comes to the theme parks. I often have to FORCE myself to stop spewing history and describing how all the technology in the attractions work and yesterday was no different. It was an interesting mix of friends though so luckily at any given time I was only repeating stories to about half of my audience…whoops.

The best part was that only a handful of the newer rides had any kind of line at all (Granted one of those rides I had a hand in creating and I would have loved to check up on it. :) ) and all of the classics were practically walk-ons. The only time we really had to wait was for the new Midway Mania game featuring the Toy Story characters but even that was totally worth every minute.

All in all I give the day an 11 on the 10 scale. Let’s hope the rest of “Moonshinery 2008″ will be half as awesome! Wish me luck!

I’m done.

Brett.





Just for the record. Bookingbuddy really is a pretty rad website if you’re looking to plan a trip. It actually allows you to search most of the top website from one location. Pretty handy! But more importantly…our new affiliation with bookingbuddy.com means all you have to do to help out Amtrekker is click on one of their ads and sign up for an awesome newsletter filled with travel deals! Thanks everyone!


Thanks!

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 7:33 pm.

3 Comments »

  1. Re: Twitter

    Something tells me the Ostrich won’t have a replacement adapter.

    Comment by Anatomicsd — September 5, 2008 @ 7:32 am

  2. The great debate:

    I’ve never been to Disneyland, so which is better, that or Disney World?

    Comment by missannw — September 5, 2008 @ 3:17 pm

  3. @Anatomicsd: Probably not. Luckily I found a loaner pretty quickly!

    @missannw: You’ve definitely come to the right place. Having worked for both I can say without a doubt that Disneyland is better than the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. But if you’re comparing the two resorts as a whole…the 42 square mile WDW just has too much to offer for the poor little one city block Disneyland to compete. But Disneyland is still MY theme park!

    Comment by Brett — September 11, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

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