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
    Profile for Amtrekker
  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


Give The Little Guy A Chance:

Hey Team,

Here’s what I like about the little guy. (Provided he has the guts to step up.) He tries harder.

What does that mean? Never travel by Greyhound.

As I was trying to find an acceptable way to escape Portland, Maine today I ran across the Greyhound website. Luckily, I learned my lesson after the whole “pedophile debacle” and spent a little more time searching the web before making a decision. That’s when I ran across Concorde Bus Lines, which isn’t necessarily the end all, be all when it comes to mass transit but it turned out to be a considerable step up from the Pedo-wagon.

Not only was it cheaper than Greyhound, it was cleaner and smelled like Pledge furniture cleaner. Greyhound smells like puke after taco night mixed with the feces of an aquatic animal. You know why aquatic animals never bother to properly digest their food? They live in a toilet. Next Question!

Concorde Bus Lines actually staffs a full kitchen staff at their corporate headquarters and ships fresh continental breakfast to every bus, every day. Bananas and yogurt for every one. Well, that’s a lie, but I will consider bus travel from now on every time I travel from Maine to Massachusetts. No Ilotts on that bus. No siree.

Now for some Amtrekker life lessons/advice/quotes…

When life hands you lemons, you kick those lemons in the shins!

Never get locked out of your pants.

I like George.

Blog like they’ll read today, read like I’ll blog tomorrow.

NOON?! LIKE IN THE MORNING??

Feed a goat on Sunday in Maryland, it will change your life.

People who aren’t Amtrekker fans (or future fans) why are you reading this?

Life lesson #5 Don’t make fun of people. They might explode and take you with them.

Graffiti with chalk.

I can’t wait to saunter on to the next fraction of the list, the next one-fiftieth portion of my journey if you will. I’m out. Donate if today is a day that ends in y!

**Fair warning, in the spirit of giving the little guy the chance, I may or may not have had anything to do with the text between the third mention of the word Greyhound and the first two asterisks (asteriski?)

I’m done.

Brett.**

But…He/She was right about the donate thing.


Don’t let him/her stop you.


3 Comments »

  1. He/She that wrote today’s update may or may not get woken up by having ice water poured on his lap at an ungodly hour in the morning for his/her previous comments. Also life lesson #5 may or may not be written on his pink lunch pail, you big girl’s blouse.

    Here’s 2 life lessons for those in the know:
    - don’t buy crimson colored towels
    - scaring goats is more fun than feeding them. YouTube that.

    Comment by ilott the douchebag — November 17, 2007 @ 7:39 am

  2. He/She that posts under the obvious pseudonym of “ilott the douchebag” should know that when georgerocks gets woken up by others, they in turn will be woken up in a manner two-fold worse until nobody in our house sleeps at all! Google your full name there Ilott and see how I rectified your internet image, although I’m not sure why I did…douche…

    Comment by georgerocks — November 19, 2007 @ 8:35 am

  3. ah-ha! I knew I’d read life lesson #5 before. Seriously, someone should write an ode to that little pink lunchbox …. y’know, that sounds way dirtier than I intended it to.

    Comment by Chelz — November 20, 2007 @ 8:16 am

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