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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


#42 Ride an Ostrich! [podcast]:

Hey Team,

If you like watching me do stupid things (and I know you do) then you’re going to like this one…

“Amtrekker travels to Virginia City, NV to take part in the 49th Annual International Camel Races (Specifically the ostrich racing portion of the weekend)!

Watch as a terrified Brett mans up and falls down.”

AND, as usual…here’s the external video link.

Thanks!

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 Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 9:43 pm.

7 Comments »

  1. We laughed our asses off! Thanks to Brushwood and Jonny Zavant for turning me on to Amtrekker. If you’re ever in Austin and need anything give me a shout.

    Comment by Hypnotic1 — September 10, 2008 @ 6:33 am

  2. Wow. I’m insanely jealous. If I had mad ostrich-riding skills I would dress like a bandito of old and ride my feathered dinosaur-like animal around the american southwest pillaging swag from various farming communities as an homage to dr. mcninja…

    Comment by georgerocks — September 11, 2008 @ 10:27 am

  3. Oh man! That was hilarious. I don’t remember the last time I laughed that hard. I feel like my first instinct to make sure I didn’t fall of the giant dino-bird would’ve been to grab onto that skinny neck and use it as a steering wheel of sorts… I’m guessing they told you that was a bad idea.

    Nice work though! The crash was definitely better than any finish line would’ve been. You planned it that way the whole time, didn’t you? Sly dog.

    Comment by Angie — September 11, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

  4. @Hypnotic1: Thanks for the offer, man! I’m glad BB and JZ sent you here too! I love those guys!

    @georgerocks: Or you could pull into a cantina and get you and your ostrich raging drunk before riding off to fight pegleg Pete a la Mickey Mouse in The Galloping Gaucho. Gotta love the classics!

    @Angie: I think being on the ostrich in the first place is probably a bad idea so I’m not sure it really matters past that…

    Glad you liked it!

    Comment by Brett — September 11, 2008 @ 12:44 pm

  5. Did you know Ostriches can smell fear?
    Oh my god Brett…that Ostrich totally stomped on you.

    Comment by jenninva — September 13, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

  6. I’m just saying… a couple of cracked ribs makes for excellent story tellin’! For halloween I am going to fill a moat full of rabid ostriches, make them really angry and then wait for unsuspecting little peckers in clown makeup to try and cross the Strategically Weakened Rope Bridge of Doom! Mwahahahahah!
    Survive, and be rewarded aplenty in delicious bite sized almond joys!

    Comment by just ilott — September 15, 2008 @ 4:50 pm

  7. I finally watched this episode and I love that I’m just as freaky as gluten free mormons. ka kow! take that world!

    hope you are having a blast today with the family :)

    Comment by FluffyEvil — October 25, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

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