Archive for the ‘Completed Objectives’ Category
The Crop Circle Video! Finally!!!
- July 2007 (17)
- 02: The Update (1)
- 04: Security Resistant Terrorists (0)
- 06: Philadelphia – The Good (2)
- 08: Philadelphia – The Bad (1)
- 08: Philadelphia – The Ugly (0)
- 09: Boston Uncommons (0)
- 10: Lancaster…no! Superfuncaster! (1)
- 11: Been There Milked That (0)
- 12: Spare Change (0)
- 13: A Californian in a Connecticut Yankee’s Court (2)
- 16: Which way? Fenway (1)
- 17: Pre-sliced American Cheese (3)
- 23: 66% Hitched (5)
- 25: California Screamin’ (1)
- 26: Comics are for Kids…and Amtrekkers (0)
- 29: Comic Comic Con (10)
- 31: I’m Not a Dad but I Play One on TV (10)
- August 2007 (14)
- 02: One’s Company (3)
- 05: The Podcast Cometh (2)
- 06: Less Than Amazing Race (3)
- 08: Gardening and Entering (8)
- 13: I Got Screwed…The Other Guy Got Nailed (4)
- 16: Niagara Falls…on my head (1)
- 19: Trojan Kayaks (8)
- 20: I Don’t Scream, But I Do Cry. (3)
- 21: Amtrak Mathamagicians (6)
- 22: Ins-N-Outs of Providence (7)
- 27: Boston T Parties (2)
- 28: Beercast?! (5)
- 29: I Love Couch…Not Lamp (3)
- 31: Male PMS (9)
- September 2007 (17)
- 02: I Think The Needle’s Stuck (2)
- 04: God Bless Hamerica (9)
- 05: Flying Fire and Fireflies (4)
- 07: Bee Careful What You Wish For (10)
- 08: Huckleberry Amtrekker (4)
- 11: Train-ed to Destroy (1)
- 13: Mmm…rBGH (3)
- 15: Glidin’ Seek (0)
- 17: No Air Time (6)
- 19: Click it and Ticket (10)
- 20: I hang glid (…hang glided…hang glode?) (9)
- 21: On The Way Down Yonder (4)
- 25: Chatta…who what now? (4)
- 26: #23 Hang gliding! [Podcast] (1)
- 27: Rambling and Ranting (1)
- 28: A Day in the Life (1)
- 29: Click…beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (2)
- October 2007 (24)
- 01: The Other Orange County (4)
- 02: Tubing down the Chattahoochee! [Podcast] (5)
- 04: Go Fly Zone (8)
- 05: Quick Miami U Update (2)
- 06: Slo-Mo (9)
- 08: If you knock me on my butt, do I not bleed? (3)
- 09: #18 Pet a sloth [podcast] (6)
- 11: I Don’t Stand for Pedophiles (6)
- 13: How long?! (7)
- 14: Power Rangers Can’t Putt (5)
- 16: Train Travel FTW (3)
- 17: TASTHIB – Urban Golf [podcast] (8)
- 18: Whose life is it anyway? (1)
- 20: I Swung Danced [video] (5)
- 21: Fish out of water(…and into retaw?) (4)
- 21: #9 – Tales from the Wayback Machine. [podcast] (8)
- 23: The Green Kid (4)
- 25: Broken News (3)
- 25: #39 Motorcycle rally [podcast] (5)
- 27: I Think I Stepped in Knowledge (2)
- 28: Should’ve Listened to Detective Thorn (0)
- 29: I Flunked Hitchhiking [podcast] (7)
- 30: I Will Survive. Hey, Hey. (1)
- 31: Last Minute Costume Idea (3)
- November 2007 (24)
- 01: Which Town? [updated with pictures!] (8)
- 02: All That Jazz (3)
- 03: The Past Colors Memories of the Future (3)
- 03: Color Me Excited (0)
- 04: Mister Rogers Would Be Proud (6)
- 05: Salem, Massachusetts Halloween [podcast!] (3)
- 07: Salute Your Shorts (3)
- 08: Now What? (5)
- 09: Ode to Amtrekker (10)
- 10: You digg it? (2)
- 12: Update (1)
- 13: #47 Tour the Crayola Factory [podcast] (10)
- 15: Lobster Bucket (9)
- 16: Not The Most Beautiful Thing (3)
- 17: Give The Little Guy A Chance (3)
- 19: Enough Wading Already (5)
- 20: #27 Go on a lobster boat [podcast] (8)
- 22: Thanks for Giving (7)
- 23: Aggietrekker (0)
- 24: Fiamingo Family Thanksgiving (1)
- 26: Cranberries and Pennsylvanians [video] (12)
- 28: Just One of Those Days (10)
- 29: Don’t Forget to Smile (3)
- 30: Opposites Attract (8)
- December 2007 (23)
- 01: Impulse vs. Intelligence: Round 1 (2)
- 02: Stupid Grenade (1)
- 03: Beware Rampant Optimism (8)
- 04: Virginia Geocaching [podcast] (1)
- 05: “No, it’s not O.KKK.” (4)
- 07: Rhinestone Cowboys (featuring the anthropomorphic personification of exploding Bedazzlers) (3)
- 08: Quitters Never Prosper (5)
- 09: Bald Knob (for realsies) (6)
- 11: Crater of Mud State Park (4)
- 13: Escape from Arkadelphia (updated with pictures!) (10)
- 13: #15 Hitchhiking! [podcast (finally!)] (4)
- 16: Out of Texas -N- In to a Burger. (3)
- 18: Y’all Come Back Now… (6)
- 19: The Totally Rad Experience (3)
- 20: Show Me…Good People (2)
- 21: #15 Arkansas Crater of Diamonds [podcast] (2)
- 23: California Bum (3)
- 24: Home Is Where the Headache Is (3)
- 25: #46 See a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse [podcast] (1)
- 26: Udderly Strange Christmas (1)
- 28: Ka-COW! (7)
- 29: More Christmas Jeer (3)
- 31: Paging Butt (2)
- January 2008 (25)
- 01: NYE in NYC (2)
- 02: Extra-Happy Hour (0)
- 02: Talk Show Eating Contest (wait…that sounds wrong) (9)
- 04: Hotdog Television Live (6)
- 06: Little Miss Update (1)
- 07: How-to: Travel on a Dime (1)
- 08: Not Even a Lump (1)
- 10: #22 Be a guest on a talk show BONUS #5 Enter a hotdog eating contest! [podcast] (6)
- 11: Other People’s Adventures (1)
- 12: Where’s Charles Atlas When You Need Him? (8)
- 14: Charley’s Going to Pee Himself (3)
- 15: Macworld Photos (0)
- 16: Stranger in a Same Land (7)
- 17: The Genuine Birthday Blog (2)
- 18: Surprise!!! (4)
- 19: #40 Ride a cow [podcast] (2)
- 20: 200?! (7)
- 22: Paging Mr. Copperfield (1)
- 23: No Cab Fare (7)
- 25: Everybody’s Creepy…Sometimes (1)
- 26: A New Day’s Resolution (9)
- 28: #41 Sandboarding! [podcast] (9)
- 30: Nature’s Plot to Make Me Look Stupid (5)
- 30: Day in the Life – Traveling to SLC [podcast] (8)
- 31: Salt Lake Pretty [updated with pictures] (4)
- February 2008 (22)
- 02: I’m Write (4)
- 04: Fire! (5)
- 04: Vote. (4)
- 06: Sweeping the Empire [updated with pictures!] (7)
- 06: The Land of Infinite Stairs [podcast] (4)
- 07: Hometown Highlights (3)
- 10: Go West Young Man (5)
- 11: The Brain Treadmill (6)
- 13: Amtrekker vs. Fire [podcast] (3)
- 15: Be Wary of VD (2)
- 17: What the?! (3)
- 18: Facing Jail Time (12)
- 19: Yoga and Booboo (2)
- 20: How to: Splash! [TASTHIB - podcast] (6)
- 21: I HATE (5)
- 22: Walk It Off (2)
- 24: “Hey Kettle You’re Looking Kinda…Black” (0)
- 25: The Plan (2)
- 26: Anti-Excitement (1)
- 27: TASTHIB – City Museum – St. Louis, MO [podcast] (3)
- 28: GSU Sampling (7)
- 29: Awesome Delays (2)
- March 2008 (21)
- 02: Super-secret Secret Squirrel (7)
- 03: What’s He Talking About? (7)
- 04: News To Me (1)
- 05: News to Me Inteview [podcast] (6)
- 07: Hashing (6)
- 08: Magic is About to Happen (9)
- 10: Magically Ambitious (4)
- 11: Quarry On (1)
- 12: #24 Be Part of a Stage Illusion [podcast] (4)
- 14: Lowest Highest Point. (3)
- 17: Swamptrekker (4)
- 19: Delayed Gratification (0)
- 20: #34 Scale the Lowest Highest Point in a State [podcast] (4)
- 21: A Beach By Any Other Name…Sucks (2)
- 24: Fishing for Donations (3)
- 25: Those Missing Days (2)
- 26: #45 Swamp Boat Ride With Gators! (6)
- 27: Angel’s Landing (1)
- 28: Where This Man Has Never Gone Before (2)
- 30: Microwave Potatoes (2)
- 31: Amtrekker Spirituality (5)
- April 2008 (24)
- 01: YOU’RE an April Fool! Jerk. (6)
- 03: #44 Fly-Fishing! [podcast] (1)
- 04: Party People (0)
- 05: What’s the Co-Motion? (3)
- 06: C’est La Vie (4)
- 07: The link to the CNN shindig (3)
- 08: Buses, Bums and Me (5)
- 09: The Immortal Words of Lewis Carroll (3)
- 10: Let’s Roller Coaster! (2)
- 11: Anti-Social Security (3)
- 13: Emotional Roller Coaster [completed objective] (2)
- 15: Days You’re Going to Need Time Off! (5)
- 16: #36 Ride the Fastest Roller Coaster in the Country! [podcast] (8)
- 17: Fifty Objective Pickup (0)
- 20: Silly Hat Bachelor Party! [updated with pictures!] (4)
- 21: Marathon Monday (0)
- 22: Marathon Madness (3)
- 23: TASTHIB – Boston Marathon Madness! (2)
- 24: What’s Colbert Hiding? (2)
- 25: How to: Be Interviewed on Good Morning America (11)
- 26: Good Morning Amtrekker (12)
- 28: New News (5)
- 29: Mid-flight Rescues (2)
- 30: Podcast Heads Up (4)
- May 2008 (16)
- 02: Internet Superstar (0)
- 03: #7 See a Live Taping of The Colbert Report! [podcast] (11)
- 06: Cause of Death: Hanging Out (6)
- 07: Viewer Mail Podcast (5)
- 09: Mega-Bust (2)
- 12: The Secret (2)
- 13: Passenger Diversity (1)
- 14: Beards, Blunders and BBQs (16)
- 16: In Transit (1)
- 19: Reenacting War = Enacting Discomfort (6)
- 20: Freezing My Musket Balls Off (8)
- 24: #12 Take Part in a Civil War Reenactment! [podcast] (7)
- 25: My Deliverance from #31 (7)
- 27: Spontaneous Raleigh Likin’ (4)
- 28: Pig Tails…Seriously (5)
- 30: #31 River Kayaking! [podcast] (*video problems fixed*) (1)
- June 2008 (17)
- 01: Less Than Helpful (5)
- 03: Wait…What Month Is It? (1)
- 04: Stuff to Gawk At (3)
- 06: #19 Help Out on a Plantation! [podcast] (6)
- 07: Boring Ol’ News, Exciting New Fun (0)
- 09: I Sailed. I’m a Sailor. I Can Sail Things. (No Big Deal) (6)
- 10: Metal Underpants and Nostalgia (2)
- 11: Bucket List?! (7)
- 13: Go Time (2)
- 13: I’ve Made a Huge Mistake? (2)
- 16: Kiteboarding! (4)
- 18: #16 Learn to Sail! [podcast] (6)
- 21: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine (7)
- 23: Pseudo-sport Olympics (13)
- 25: Toxic Stupidity Spill (0)
- 27: Greenie Green?! (4)
- 29: #29 Drive a Race Car! (6)
- July 2008 (15)
- 01: “Food” Stops (5)
- 02: #17 Kiteboarding! [podcast] (6)
- 03: Thank You (8)
- 04: Anniversary Sonnet (4)
- 09: The Grandest of Holes in the Ground (6)
- 11: The Wonderful World of Greyhound (3)
- 14: Assault on Miners (5)
- 16: #29 Drive a race car! [podcast] (5)
- 18: #25 Be in a Movie! (3)
- 21: The Day the Universe Decided to Punish Me (1)
- 22: Geocaching Attack! (0)
- 24: Frank’s Fort (1)
- 27: #3 Sleep in a Lighthouse! (10)
- 30: Charley Update (1)
- 31: La Dreamer and Stone Face: A Love Story (5)
- August 2008 (14)
- 01: #50 Hike to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon! [podcast] (3)
- 03: Get Well Charley (2)
- 08: Lake Shasta Shenanigans (2)
- 10: Hugfest 2008 (1)
- 11: Welcome to Crazytown. Population: Me (4)
- 12: Charley’s Malaise (3)
- 16: Ore-GONE! (0)
- 19: Where Oh Where Has My Amtrekker Gone… (0)
- 20: New Occupation: Used Car Salesman? (8)
- 22: Wholesale Slaughter (3)
- 25: #3 Sleep in a Lighthouse! [podcast] (2)
- 28: Nightmares (6)
- 29: Is Horse Feed Really a Good Idea Anyway? (5)
- 30: Disaster Looms (0)
- September 2008 (13)
- 01: What a Tangled Web We’ve Woven (2)
- 03: Baby Changes (0)
- 04: Disneylanding (3)
- 06: “Moonshinery 2008″ Update (0)
- 07: I Crashed an Ostrich (6)
- 09: #42 Ride an Ostrich! [podcast] (8)
- 11: American Rail Passes…FOR AMERICANS! (1)
- 14: Back on the Train (3)
- 16: Set Your Calendars! (3)
- 21: Pinko Commie Crops (4)
- 24: Crop Circling (4)
- 28: Stylish Dead Folks (0)
- 30: #13 Race Dirtbikes! [*updated with pictures!*] (2)
- October 2008 (14)
- 04: Uncertain Times (2)
- 06: #14 Make Moonshine Pt. 1 (4)
- 08: Dirty Minds (4)
- 11: Life of Brian (0)
- 13: #28 SCUBA Diving in the Atlantic! [*updated with pictures!*] (4)
- 14: Not Safe For PETA (6)
- 17: The Daily Buzz (1)
- 20: Death of the Dog? (1)
- 22: Instructions (0)
- 22: Auditions for Icabod Crane (2)
- 24: Bad News is Good? (0)
- 26: The End. (kinda) [pictures later] (7)
- 28: Party People (0)
- 31: Hey, Amtrekker! WTF (2)
- November 2008 (5)
- 03: Halloween Raid (0)
- 09: #2 Ride a Horse Through a Covered Bridge [podcast] (1)
- 12: Wolfe Manor (0)
- 24: A Night in Wolfe Manor [photos by CJ Johnson!] (1)
- 29: Iron Katy (0)
- December 2008 (4)
- 04: Stories Behind Stories (3)
- 14: #14 Make Moonshine Pt. 2 (4)
- 20: The First Four (3)
- 31: The Next Four (5)
- January 2009 (2)
- 02: A NEW List?! (10)
- 21: My Life as a Vegan (4)
- February 2009 (1)
- 25: 2009 Travel Blogger Awards (3)
- March 2009 (2)
- 06: Ghost Hunting at Wolfe Manor! [video] (3)
- 30: The Streamys! (5)
- May 2009 (4)
- 04: New Intro! (3)
- 07: Amtrekker: TALES FROM THE VAULT Premiere! (1)
- 18: A Popsicle is Better Than a Kick in the Ribs (3)
- 19: Latest Episode (1)
- July 2009 (1)
- 14: Geek Cred (2)
- August 2009 (3)
- 13: Road Trippin’ (3)
- 14: Road Trippin’ Day 2 (2)
- 25: Weird Things and Bigfeet (0)
- September 2009 (3)
- 02: Past Brett vs. Future Brett (6)
- 03: Northern Northern California (1)
- 05: Rubber Bands, Crustaceans and a Guest (0)
- October 2009 (1)
- 01: Arrestable Offense (2)
- November 2009 (4)
- 10: Meeting the Amazing Randi (3)
- 11: I hate Best Buy (1)
- 16: Cruise Overview (in haiku) (0)
- 22: A Few Rambling Thoughts on Cruising (3)
- December 2009 (1)
- March 2010 (1)
- 09: Amtrekker’s Newest Adventure! (0)
Hey Team,
Enjoy the New Year’s Eve shenanigans! Here’s my gift to you (inspired by a desire to vindicate myself in the face of that crazy SOB William Shatner).
“Amtrekker travels to Beulah, MI to create a crop circle!
Failures and ethnically insensitive impressions ensue.”
I’m done.
Brett.
Amtrekker: TALES FROM THE VAULT Premiere!
- July 2007 (17)
- 02: The Update (1)
- 04: Security Resistant Terrorists (0)
- 06: Philadelphia – The Good (2)
- 08: Philadelphia – The Bad (1)
- 08: Philadelphia – The Ugly (0)
- 09: Boston Uncommons (0)
- 10: Lancaster…no! Superfuncaster! (1)
- 11: Been There Milked That (0)
- 12: Spare Change (0)
- 13: A Californian in a Connecticut Yankee’s Court (2)
- 16: Which way? Fenway (1)
- 17: Pre-sliced American Cheese (3)
- 23: 66% Hitched (5)
- 25: California Screamin’ (1)
- 26: Comics are for Kids…and Amtrekkers (0)
- 29: Comic Comic Con (10)
- 31: I’m Not a Dad but I Play One on TV (10)
- August 2007 (14)
- 02: One’s Company (3)
- 05: The Podcast Cometh (2)
- 06: Less Than Amazing Race (3)
- 08: Gardening and Entering (8)
- 13: I Got Screwed…The Other Guy Got Nailed (4)
- 16: Niagara Falls…on my head (1)
- 19: Trojan Kayaks (8)
- 20: I Don’t Scream, But I Do Cry. (3)
- 21: Amtrak Mathamagicians (6)
- 22: Ins-N-Outs of Providence (7)
- 27: Boston T Parties (2)
- 28: Beercast?! (5)
- 29: I Love Couch…Not Lamp (3)
- 31: Male PMS (9)
- September 2007 (17)
- 02: I Think The Needle’s Stuck (2)
- 04: God Bless Hamerica (9)
- 05: Flying Fire and Fireflies (4)
- 07: Bee Careful What You Wish For (10)
- 08: Huckleberry Amtrekker (4)
- 11: Train-ed to Destroy (1)
- 13: Mmm…rBGH (3)
- 15: Glidin’ Seek (0)
- 17: No Air Time (6)
- 19: Click it and Ticket (10)
- 20: I hang glid (…hang glided…hang glode?) (9)
- 21: On The Way Down Yonder (4)
- 25: Chatta…who what now? (4)
- 26: #23 Hang gliding! [Podcast] (1)
- 27: Rambling and Ranting (1)
- 28: A Day in the Life (1)
- 29: Click…beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (2)
- October 2007 (24)
- 01: The Other Orange County (4)
- 02: Tubing down the Chattahoochee! [Podcast] (5)
- 04: Go Fly Zone (8)
- 05: Quick Miami U Update (2)
- 06: Slo-Mo (9)
- 08: If you knock me on my butt, do I not bleed? (3)
- 09: #18 Pet a sloth [podcast] (6)
- 11: I Don’t Stand for Pedophiles (6)
- 13: How long?! (7)
- 14: Power Rangers Can’t Putt (5)
- 16: Train Travel FTW (3)
- 17: TASTHIB – Urban Golf [podcast] (8)
- 18: Whose life is it anyway? (1)
- 20: I Swung Danced [video] (5)
- 21: Fish out of water(…and into retaw?) (4)
- 21: #9 – Tales from the Wayback Machine. [podcast] (8)
- 23: The Green Kid (4)
- 25: Broken News (3)
- 25: #39 Motorcycle rally [podcast] (5)
- 27: I Think I Stepped in Knowledge (2)
- 28: Should’ve Listened to Detective Thorn (0)
- 29: I Flunked Hitchhiking [podcast] (7)
- 30: I Will Survive. Hey, Hey. (1)
- 31: Last Minute Costume Idea (3)
- November 2007 (24)
- 01: Which Town? [updated with pictures!] (8)
- 02: All That Jazz (3)
- 03: The Past Colors Memories of the Future (3)
- 03: Color Me Excited (0)
- 04: Mister Rogers Would Be Proud (6)
- 05: Salem, Massachusetts Halloween [podcast!] (3)
- 07: Salute Your Shorts (3)
- 08: Now What? (5)
- 09: Ode to Amtrekker (10)
- 10: You digg it? (2)
- 12: Update (1)
- 13: #47 Tour the Crayola Factory [podcast] (10)
- 15: Lobster Bucket (9)
- 16: Not The Most Beautiful Thing (3)
- 17: Give The Little Guy A Chance (3)
- 19: Enough Wading Already (5)
- 20: #27 Go on a lobster boat [podcast] (8)
- 22: Thanks for Giving (7)
- 23: Aggietrekker (0)
- 24: Fiamingo Family Thanksgiving (1)
- 26: Cranberries and Pennsylvanians [video] (12)
- 28: Just One of Those Days (10)
- 29: Don’t Forget to Smile (3)
- 30: Opposites Attract (8)
- December 2007 (23)
- 01: Impulse vs. Intelligence: Round 1 (2)
- 02: Stupid Grenade (1)
- 03: Beware Rampant Optimism (8)
- 04: Virginia Geocaching [podcast] (1)
- 05: “No, it’s not O.KKK.” (4)
- 07: Rhinestone Cowboys (featuring the anthropomorphic personification of exploding Bedazzlers) (3)
- 08: Quitters Never Prosper (5)
- 09: Bald Knob (for realsies) (6)
- 11: Crater of Mud State Park (4)
- 13: Escape from Arkadelphia (updated with pictures!) (10)
- 13: #15 Hitchhiking! [podcast (finally!)] (4)
- 16: Out of Texas -N- In to a Burger. (3)
- 18: Y’all Come Back Now… (6)
- 19: The Totally Rad Experience (3)
- 20: Show Me…Good People (2)
- 21: #15 Arkansas Crater of Diamonds [podcast] (2)
- 23: California Bum (3)
- 24: Home Is Where the Headache Is (3)
- 25: #46 See a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse [podcast] (1)
- 26: Udderly Strange Christmas (1)
- 28: Ka-COW! (7)
- 29: More Christmas Jeer (3)
- 31: Paging Butt (2)
- January 2008 (25)
- 01: NYE in NYC (2)
- 02: Extra-Happy Hour (0)
- 02: Talk Show Eating Contest (wait…that sounds wrong) (9)
- 04: Hotdog Television Live (6)
- 06: Little Miss Update (1)
- 07: How-to: Travel on a Dime (1)
- 08: Not Even a Lump (1)
- 10: #22 Be a guest on a talk show BONUS #5 Enter a hotdog eating contest! [podcast] (6)
- 11: Other People’s Adventures (1)
- 12: Where’s Charles Atlas When You Need Him? (8)
- 14: Charley’s Going to Pee Himself (3)
- 15: Macworld Photos (0)
- 16: Stranger in a Same Land (7)
- 17: The Genuine Birthday Blog (2)
- 18: Surprise!!! (4)
- 19: #40 Ride a cow [podcast] (2)
- 20: 200?! (7)
- 22: Paging Mr. Copperfield (1)
- 23: No Cab Fare (7)
- 25: Everybody’s Creepy…Sometimes (1)
- 26: A New Day’s Resolution (9)
- 28: #41 Sandboarding! [podcast] (9)
- 30: Nature’s Plot to Make Me Look Stupid (5)
- 30: Day in the Life – Traveling to SLC [podcast] (8)
- 31: Salt Lake Pretty [updated with pictures] (4)
- February 2008 (22)
- 02: I’m Write (4)
- 04: Fire! (5)
- 04: Vote. (4)
- 06: Sweeping the Empire [updated with pictures!] (7)
- 06: The Land of Infinite Stairs [podcast] (4)
- 07: Hometown Highlights (3)
- 10: Go West Young Man (5)
- 11: The Brain Treadmill (6)
- 13: Amtrekker vs. Fire [podcast] (3)
- 15: Be Wary of VD (2)
- 17: What the?! (3)
- 18: Facing Jail Time (12)
- 19: Yoga and Booboo (2)
- 20: How to: Splash! [TASTHIB - podcast] (6)
- 21: I HATE (5)
- 22: Walk It Off (2)
- 24: “Hey Kettle You’re Looking Kinda…Black” (0)
- 25: The Plan (2)
- 26: Anti-Excitement (1)
- 27: TASTHIB – City Museum – St. Louis, MO [podcast] (3)
- 28: GSU Sampling (7)
- 29: Awesome Delays (2)
- March 2008 (21)
- 02: Super-secret Secret Squirrel (7)
- 03: What’s He Talking About? (7)
- 04: News To Me (1)
- 05: News to Me Inteview [podcast] (6)
- 07: Hashing (6)
- 08: Magic is About to Happen (9)
- 10: Magically Ambitious (4)
- 11: Quarry On (1)
- 12: #24 Be Part of a Stage Illusion [podcast] (4)
- 14: Lowest Highest Point. (3)
- 17: Swamptrekker (4)
- 19: Delayed Gratification (0)
- 20: #34 Scale the Lowest Highest Point in a State [podcast] (4)
- 21: A Beach By Any Other Name…Sucks (2)
- 24: Fishing for Donations (3)
- 25: Those Missing Days (2)
- 26: #45 Swamp Boat Ride With Gators! (6)
- 27: Angel’s Landing (1)
- 28: Where This Man Has Never Gone Before (2)
- 30: Microwave Potatoes (2)
- 31: Amtrekker Spirituality (5)
- April 2008 (24)
- 01: YOU’RE an April Fool! Jerk. (6)
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Hey Team,
Okay! No more of that silly waiting for Brett to do his thing. Here it is! Let me know what you think!
“Amtrekker travels to Caruthers, CA for the Caruthers Nationals flattrack dirtbike races where he manages to (of course) crash multiply times and show the crowd why people should never get on a bike for the first time for a race.”
The chat is for tonight and the comments are for posterity. (You can sign on using Facebook Connect AND you can leave VIDEO comments now! How cool is that, right?)
Thanks Team!
I’m excited.
Brett.
If you like the site, it’s still your help that keeps things going! Thanks a ton, everyone!
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Obviously I let a couple of guest articles and some other writing projects distract me this week but to get now I’m ready. Let’s get back to those whys so you guys can stop emailing me about why I haven’t written the rest of the whys.
5. Enter a hot dog eating contest: The truth is this one was a long standing desire and I’d kill to be in just about any “eating” contest it’s just that hot dogs are kind of the end all, be all of eating contests and I’ve always believed that the more specific your goals are the more likely you’ll be to step up to the plate and make it happen.
Once upon a time I though that I would finally get my chance to out-eat anyone with less dedication to the task during an after-school program sponsored caramel apple eating contest. I got off to a great start and was at least a half apple ahead of everyone else by the time I reached for the fourth and final caramel coated confection…
Which turned out to be an onion instead of an apple. At the risk of tossing out an absurdly bad pun…that always left a bad taste in my mouth and I wanted another opportunity to strut my stuff.
Enter Paul Parowski, Cody Willard and the crew over at Happy Hour on Fox Business News. Thanks, guys!
6. Walk to the top of the Empire State Building: This was one of those things that, upon writing the list, I always thought of as a slightly lame tourist trap that would take zero effort and maybe a ten dollar bill to make happen. Little did I know that two years later whenever anyone asks me what the toughest thing I had to do on the trip was I would, without hesitation, tell the story of trying to find a way into a stairwell that is mandated closed by the NYC fire marshals 364 days a year.
7. See a live taping of the Colbert Report: I’m not sure this one requires any explanation at all. Who wouldn’t want to see a live taping of the Colbert Report? And since the story of how I got snubbed and had my camera taken away is already on the site there’s nothing left to say but, “Thanks, Ace!”
8. See a game at Fenway Park: I’m not nearly as big a baseball fan now as I once was but I still remember that feeling of walking into a major league ballpark (the Oakland Coliseum) for the first time and being blown away by the enormity of what I was about to experience.
I guess what I was hoping for with Fenway was to relive that experience but in a different time. A prouder time, maybe? It’s hard to describe because for some reason baseball and America are inextricably linked in my brain and I think I’m continually searching for those little nuggets of life that I can point to and say things have been great and they CAN get better. Too much cheese?
Regardless, I was blown away by Fenway and if you ever want to see baseball played in a place that just FEELS like that’s where baseball SHOULD be played…go there. Thanks, Jill!
P.S. Since it’s kind of apropos, here’s another article I wrote this week for Amateur Traveler
I’m done.
Brett.
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- 12: Spare Change (0)
- 13: A Californian in a Connecticut Yankee’s Court (2)
- 16: Which way? Fenway (1)
- 17: Pre-sliced American Cheese (3)
- 23: 66% Hitched (5)
- 25: California Screamin’ (1)
- 26: Comics are for Kids…and Amtrekkers (0)
- 29: Comic Comic Con (10)
- 31: I’m Not a Dad but I Play One on TV (10)
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- 02: One’s Company (3)
- 05: The Podcast Cometh (2)
- 06: Less Than Amazing Race (3)
- 08: Gardening and Entering (8)
- 13: I Got Screwed…The Other Guy Got Nailed (4)
- 16: Niagara Falls…on my head (1)
- 19: Trojan Kayaks (8)
- 20: I Don’t Scream, But I Do Cry. (3)
- 21: Amtrak Mathamagicians (6)
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- 27: Boston T Parties (2)
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- 29: I Love Couch…Not Lamp (3)
- 31: Male PMS (9)
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- 26: #23 Hang gliding! [Podcast] (1)
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- 28: A Day in the Life (1)
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- 02: Tubing down the Chattahoochee! [Podcast] (5)
- 04: Go Fly Zone (8)
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- 25: Broken News (3)
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- 03: The Past Colors Memories of the Future (3)
- 03: Color Me Excited (0)
- 04: Mister Rogers Would Be Proud (6)
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- 12: Update (1)
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- 15: Lobster Bucket (9)
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- 17: Give The Little Guy A Chance (3)
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- 28: Just One of Those Days (10)
- 29: Don’t Forget to Smile (3)
- 30: Opposites Attract (8)
- December 2007 (23)
- 01: Impulse vs. Intelligence: Round 1 (2)
- 02: Stupid Grenade (1)
- 03: Beware Rampant Optimism (8)
- 04: Virginia Geocaching [podcast] (1)
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- 07: Rhinestone Cowboys (featuring the anthropomorphic personification of exploding Bedazzlers) (3)
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- 16: Out of Texas -N- In to a Burger. (3)
- 18: Y’all Come Back Now… (6)
- 19: The Totally Rad Experience (3)
- 20: Show Me…Good People (2)
- 21: #15 Arkansas Crater of Diamonds [podcast] (2)
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- 25: #46 See a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse [podcast] (1)
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- 08: Not Even a Lump (1)
- 10: #22 Be a guest on a talk show BONUS #5 Enter a hotdog eating contest! [podcast] (6)
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- 04: Vote. (4)
- 06: Sweeping the Empire [updated with pictures!] (7)
- 06: The Land of Infinite Stairs [podcast] (4)
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- 29: Awesome Delays (2)
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- 03: What’s He Talking About? (7)
- 04: News To Me (1)
- 05: News to Me Inteview [podcast] (6)
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- 25: Those Missing Days (2)
- 26: #45 Swamp Boat Ride With Gators! (6)
- 27: Angel’s Landing (1)
- 28: Where This Man Has Never Gone Before (2)
- 30: Microwave Potatoes (2)
- 31: Amtrekker Spirituality (5)
- April 2008 (24)
- 01: YOU’RE an April Fool! Jerk. (6)
- 03: #44 Fly-Fishing! [podcast] (1)
- 04: Party People (0)
- 05: What’s the Co-Motion? (3)
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- 15: Days You’re Going to Need Time Off! (5)
- 16: #36 Ride the Fastest Roller Coaster in the Country! [podcast] (8)
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- 20: Silly Hat Bachelor Party! [updated with pictures!] (4)
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- 24: #12 Take Part in a Civil War Reenactment! [podcast] (7)
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- 28: Pig Tails…Seriously (5)
- 30: #31 River Kayaking! [podcast] (*video problems fixed*) (1)
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- 06: #19 Help Out on a Plantation! [podcast] (6)
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- 09: I Sailed. I’m a Sailor. I Can Sail Things. (No Big Deal) (6)
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- 13: Go Time (2)
- 13: I’ve Made a Huge Mistake? (2)
- 16: Kiteboarding! (4)
- 18: #16 Learn to Sail! [podcast] (6)
- 21: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine (7)
- 23: Pseudo-sport Olympics (13)
- 25: Toxic Stupidity Spill (0)
- 27: Greenie Green?! (4)
- 29: #29 Drive a Race Car! (6)
- July 2008 (15)
- 01: “Food” Stops (5)
- 02: #17 Kiteboarding! [podcast] (6)
- 03: Thank You (8)
- 04: Anniversary Sonnet (4)
- 09: The Grandest of Holes in the Ground (6)
- 11: The Wonderful World of Greyhound (3)
- 14: Assault on Miners (5)
- 16: #29 Drive a race car! [podcast] (5)
- 18: #25 Be in a Movie! (3)
- 21: The Day the Universe Decided to Punish Me (1)
- 22: Geocaching Attack! (0)
- 24: Frank’s Fort (1)
- 27: #3 Sleep in a Lighthouse! (10)
- 30: Charley Update (1)
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- 01: #50 Hike to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon! [podcast] (3)
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- 21: Pinko Commie Crops (4)
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- 30: #13 Race Dirtbikes! [*updated with pictures!*] (2)
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- 06: #14 Make Moonshine Pt. 1 (4)
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- 31: Hey, Amtrekker! WTF (2)
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- 09: #2 Ride a Horse Through a Covered Bridge [podcast] (1)
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- 24: A Night in Wolfe Manor [photos by CJ Johnson!] (1)
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- 14: #14 Make Moonshine Pt. 2 (4)
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Hey Team,
Here’s the fun stuff!
“Amtrekker and Dr. Tiki travel into international waters under cover of night to show you how to distill moonshine.
Mistakes are made…not the least of which are actually tasting the booze.
(Part two of a two part series! Part one is right here.)”
Follow Amtrekker, Dr. Tiki and TikiTosca on twitter.
Subscribe to Amtrekker on iTunes!
And here’s the YouTube link.
Thanks Team!
I’m done.
Brett.
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#2 Ride a Horse Through a Covered Bridge [podcast]
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- 10: Lancaster…no! Superfuncaster! (1)
- 11: Been There Milked That (0)
- 12: Spare Change (0)
- 13: A Californian in a Connecticut Yankee’s Court (2)
- 16: Which way? Fenway (1)
- 17: Pre-sliced American Cheese (3)
- 23: 66% Hitched (5)
- 25: California Screamin’ (1)
- 26: Comics are for Kids…and Amtrekkers (0)
- 29: Comic Comic Con (10)
- 31: I’m Not a Dad but I Play One on TV (10)
- August 2007 (14)
- 02: One’s Company (3)
- 05: The Podcast Cometh (2)
- 06: Less Than Amazing Race (3)
- 08: Gardening and Entering (8)
- 13: I Got Screwed…The Other Guy Got Nailed (4)
- 16: Niagara Falls…on my head (1)
- 19: Trojan Kayaks (8)
- 20: I Don’t Scream, But I Do Cry. (3)
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- 22: Ins-N-Outs of Providence (7)
- 27: Boston T Parties (2)
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- 04: God Bless Hamerica (9)
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- 13: Mmm…rBGH (3)
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- 19: Click it and Ticket (10)
- 20: I hang glid (…hang glided…hang glode?) (9)
- 21: On The Way Down Yonder (4)
- 25: Chatta…who what now? (4)
- 26: #23 Hang gliding! [Podcast] (1)
- 27: Rambling and Ranting (1)
- 28: A Day in the Life (1)
- 29: Click…beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (2)
- October 2007 (24)
- 01: The Other Orange County (4)
- 02: Tubing down the Chattahoochee! [Podcast] (5)
- 04: Go Fly Zone (8)
- 05: Quick Miami U Update (2)
- 06: Slo-Mo (9)
- 08: If you knock me on my butt, do I not bleed? (3)
- 09: #18 Pet a sloth [podcast] (6)
- 11: I Don’t Stand for Pedophiles (6)
- 13: How long?! (7)
- 14: Power Rangers Can’t Putt (5)
- 16: Train Travel FTW (3)
- 17: TASTHIB – Urban Golf [podcast] (8)
- 18: Whose life is it anyway? (1)
- 20: I Swung Danced [video] (5)
- 21: Fish out of water(…and into retaw?) (4)
- 21: #9 – Tales from the Wayback Machine. [podcast] (8)
- 23: The Green Kid (4)
- 25: Broken News (3)
- 25: #39 Motorcycle rally [podcast] (5)
- 27: I Think I Stepped in Knowledge (2)
- 28: Should’ve Listened to Detective Thorn (0)
- 29: I Flunked Hitchhiking [podcast] (7)
- 30: I Will Survive. Hey, Hey. (1)
- 31: Last Minute Costume Idea (3)
- November 2007 (24)
- 01: Which Town? [updated with pictures!] (8)
- 02: All That Jazz (3)
- 03: The Past Colors Memories of the Future (3)
- 03: Color Me Excited (0)
- 04: Mister Rogers Would Be Proud (6)
- 05: Salem, Massachusetts Halloween [podcast!] (3)
- 07: Salute Your Shorts (3)
- 08: Now What? (5)
- 09: Ode to Amtrekker (10)
- 10: You digg it? (2)
- 12: Update (1)
- 13: #47 Tour the Crayola Factory [podcast] (10)
- 15: Lobster Bucket (9)
- 16: Not The Most Beautiful Thing (3)
- 17: Give The Little Guy A Chance (3)
- 19: Enough Wading Already (5)
- 20: #27 Go on a lobster boat [podcast] (8)
- 22: Thanks for Giving (7)
- 23: Aggietrekker (0)
- 24: Fiamingo Family Thanksgiving (1)
- 26: Cranberries and Pennsylvanians [video] (12)
- 28: Just One of Those Days (10)
- 29: Don’t Forget to Smile (3)
- 30: Opposites Attract (8)
- December 2007 (23)
- 01: Impulse vs. Intelligence: Round 1 (2)
- 02: Stupid Grenade (1)
- 03: Beware Rampant Optimism (8)
- 04: Virginia Geocaching [podcast] (1)
- 05: “No, it’s not O.KKK.” (4)
- 07: Rhinestone Cowboys (featuring the anthropomorphic personification of exploding Bedazzlers) (3)
- 08: Quitters Never Prosper (5)
- 09: Bald Knob (for realsies) (6)
- 11: Crater of Mud State Park (4)
- 13: Escape from Arkadelphia (updated with pictures!) (10)
- 13: #15 Hitchhiking! [podcast (finally!)] (4)
- 16: Out of Texas -N- In to a Burger. (3)
- 18: Y’all Come Back Now… (6)
- 19: The Totally Rad Experience (3)
- 20: Show Me…Good People (2)
- 21: #15 Arkansas Crater of Diamonds [podcast] (2)
- 23: California Bum (3)
- 24: Home Is Where the Headache Is (3)
- 25: #46 See a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse [podcast] (1)
- 26: Udderly Strange Christmas (1)
- 28: Ka-COW! (7)
- 29: More Christmas Jeer (3)
- 31: Paging Butt (2)
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- 02: Extra-Happy Hour (0)
- 02: Talk Show Eating Contest (wait…that sounds wrong) (9)
- 04: Hotdog Television Live (6)
- 06: Little Miss Update (1)
- 07: How-to: Travel on a Dime (1)
- 08: Not Even a Lump (1)
- 10: #22 Be a guest on a talk show BONUS #5 Enter a hotdog eating contest! [podcast] (6)
- 11: Other People’s Adventures (1)
- 12: Where’s Charles Atlas When You Need Him? (8)
- 14: Charley’s Going to Pee Himself (3)
- 15: Macworld Photos (0)
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- 19: #40 Ride a cow [podcast] (2)
- 20: 200?! (7)
- 22: Paging Mr. Copperfield (1)
- 23: No Cab Fare (7)
- 25: Everybody’s Creepy…Sometimes (1)
- 26: A New Day’s Resolution (9)
- 28: #41 Sandboarding! [podcast] (9)
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Hey Team,
Lots of stuff going on. Plenty of adventures around the corner. A new literary agent. A book proposal to write. But MOST importantly…everyone’s favorite videos are BACK! Today it’s the horse through through the covered bridge, the video of the party will be out in a few days and then it will be back to the old Wednesday at 6pm Pacific schedule! Ah, the good old days.
There are literally a TON (okay, not literally…it’s all digital so it really doesn’t take up much space) of videos still to come! Things will take on a slightly different format now that I’m back but there are still a lot of “Tales From the Wayback Machine” I’ve yet to show you guys! I’m pretty excited to be able to sit somewhere for an extended period of time without being kicked out so I can ramp up the production quality as much as I can.
Okay, less talk more action. Here it is:
“Amtrekker travels to Atlanta, GA where with the help of Grayson from CNN’s News To Me team, Betty Ann, Ginger, Chase and a horse named Danket he finally gets to live out a cartoon!
Flaming pumpkins ensue.”
And here’s the YouTube link.
Thanks Team!
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!
The End. (kinda) [pictures later]
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Hey Team,
I’m done.
That’s the first time I’ve ever had the chance to START a post with that line. Yesterday was completely surreal. Driving up to my house my stomach was filled with butterflies and I was even shaking with anticipation. As we pulled up to the gate of the two acre parcel my folks live on in Middle-Of-Nowhere, CA Ron Fairbanks walked up and blocked my entry.
Apparently, in my absence a vote was taken and I wasn’t even going to be allowed on the property where the homecoming party was being held until I found the final geocache. Eventually a horde of people gathered around and suddenly I was practically onstage wandering around in circles following a GPS I had never used before…poorly. I thought, “Geez, all these people are here just to watch me find a geocache…this is pretty intimidating. I guess I should at least make a show of it.”
Near ground zero according to the GPS was a small DSL box with the wiring running down a post. I figured I might as well look in a few places it was OBVIOUSLY never going to be hidden just to keep things interesting. I opened the DSL box and…Ka-KOW! The cache fell out onto my foot!
Everyone cheered. I continued to shake and my heart continued to pound. Hugs all around. I walk toward the house hugging my mom and smiling too big for my head not to come unhinged.
The rest of the day was a blur of telling stories and faces from the “past.” And more importantly, trying to come up with an answer to the question, “Now what?”
I know you guys are all wondering the same thing so here’s the best answer I’ve been able to come up with so far:
I have enough footage of awesome adventures and I’m far enough behind on the editing that Amtrekker.com will continue to post new episodes for a few more months as “Tales From the Wayback Machine!” It’s going to be exciting to be able to sit down and put a little more effort into the production of these so keep a weathered eye out. The party podcast will be up in a couple days then we’ll start traveling backwards.
There’s a book proposal to be written and I have to choose between a handful of excited literary agents so things are looking good on that front.
There may be an opportunity to start producing some segments for a syndicated television show that hopefully I can say more about after next week.
AND…I’ll be shooting the “pilot” for a new web series similar to Amtrekker but with the focus on YOU GUYS instead of this old dog (of course by “old” I mean “young” and by “dog” I mean “super cool dude”). I think it could be really special and a LOT of fun. It may not appear for several months and it’s also going to be a very low budget independent undertaking but I’m super stoked about it. So send in your fifty lists and maybe we can make some magic happen!
I’m done! (kinda)
Brett.
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Hey Team,
Wow! It finally happened. For the last week and a half the awesome team over at CNN’s News To Me has been scrambling to try to put me, a horse and a covered bridge together at the same point in time and space. I can’t tell you how many calls I got from the Associate Producer, Grayson, that went something like this:
“Brett, that horse contact fell through but I think we might have another one…maybe.”
“Brett, there’s no way that bridge is going to work. It looks like we’re back to square one.”
“Brett, the other bridge I wanted to use is under construction right now…”
Meanwhile I was trying to get in touch with everyone I know in the Atlanta area in the hopes that someone could help out while watching the days on the calendar tick away. And yet, after almost a year and a half of similar situations working out time and again, even with the deadline of the Amtrekker party looming, I kind of felt like Geoffrey Rush’s character in Shakespeare in Love.
“Brett, I’m so sorry this isn’t working out. I feel terrible for getting you all the way out here and not being able to get you on a horse. How worried should I be? What happens if we can’t make this work?”
“Don’t worry about it, man. It will all work out. I trust you.”
How? I don’t know. It’s a mystery.

Final, yesterday, I found myself standing next to a creek down the road from a BEAUTIFUL covered bridge. It was only five minutes before Betty Ann was supposed to meet us with her horse and things were STILL up in the air. Would she be able to get the horse trailer to the location? Would the horse tolerate all the traffic? Would it walk through a covered bridge? (Something I never considered but have been told repeatedly in the last year is that horses strongly dislike walking through low covered spaces.)
Then Betty Ann showed up with her daughter, Ginger, and Ginger’s Appaloosa, Danket a.k.a. the sweetest horse ever (and possibly most disproportionate).
Grayson and Betty Ann blocked traffic on either side of the one lane bridge while I hopped up on Danket and Ginger helped lead him through the bridge while Chase (another member of Team Amtrekker that I met almost a year ago when I hitchhiked to his house) filmed the goings on.

I opted out of wearing the flaming pumpkin on my head and threatening passersby a la The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the inspiration behind this item making the list in the first place) figuring the last thing I need to do at this point was complicate matters further and scare Danket.
Betty Ann, Ginger, Grayson and Chase were all awesome out there and I love seeing people come together to make something like this happen. Especially when it’s so clear that everyone is enjoying the adventure. It’s really the backbone of why this trip was possible (and I never really knew for sure that it was) but it’s an important lesson to learn and I’ll toss out a few theories after this adventure officially closes.
I’ve learned a LOT about people in the last 476 days and I can’t wait to share it with everyone.
Thanks SO MUCH everyone. See you Saturday!!!
I’m done.
Brett.
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Hey Team,
I was on a morning show called The Daily Buzz this morning! They gave me a call a couple days ago from a San Diego number but I didn’t have my phone on me. When they called again yesterday I couldn’t answer because I was in an attraction at EPCOT. Eventually I called back, apologizing for remaining in “O’Canada!,” when they called…
“What?! You’re in town!”
“No, I’m in Orlando. Wait…what do you mean?”
Turns out The Daily Buzz tapes right her in “The Sunshine State!”
I even got to help host the weather!
Here’s the link: http://www.amtrekker.com/wp-content/uploads/amtrekker.mov
In other news: I won’t be riding the horse through the covered bridge in Atlanta until Tuesday so it’s going to be a mad dash across the country to get to Amtrekkapalooza in time!
AND, there are a few people that were a big part of this adventure that would love to make it to the big finish on October 25th but have limited funds so if anyone has any connections with airlines that can maybe get a few of these folks some cheap standby tickets let me know!
Thanks, Team!
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 websites 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!
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