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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


Enough Wading Already:

Hey Team,

There’s been a whole lot of wading going on in the last couple days. Most importantly I went wading through a cranberry bog yesterday! Granted, it almost killed me and I’m more than a little surprised I didn’t lose any toes to frostbite but it’s done. And I have to admit it seemed like a much better idea six months ago when it made it on the list and the weather was nice and warm than it did yesterday when I was standing in front of an irrigation canal with my pants around my ankles.

I’ll even admit I may have lost my normally calm and cool composure when I started screaming things like, “NO NOO I CHANGED MY MIND!!!!” and “PLEASE GOD HELP ME GET OUT OF HERE I CAN’T FEEL MY FEET!!!” but all’s well that ends well, right? I can’t wait to get the video up so you guys can see how pathetic I’m capable of being. (Sometimes sarcasm just doesn’t sound right in type.)

Speaking of video, that’s where the rest of the wading comes in, I have a pile of tapes next to me as I type this and it amounts to about five podcasts that aren’t done yet. BUT, I’m going to start trying something new here in the exciting pages of Amtrekker and through iTunes. So here’s the first of the “new” to explain things and please leave plenty of feedback and let me know your thoughts. I’m super curious what you all think about the videos and how they and the site in general can be improved.

I’ll try to get at least two more videos up this week…maybe three if I’m awesome.

Thanks Team.

I’m done.

Brett.

Also…feel free to leave your feedback in the form of a donation to keep things rolling.


Don’t let me stop you.


This entry was posted on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 1:37 pm.

5 Comments »

  1. For your cowardice and procrastination, you so should’ve been doused with a bucket of frigid bog-water, in true Ocean Spray fashion!
    Question: Most people would roll their pant legs up to wade, but my real concern though is what you were doing with your “pants around your ankles.”
    A group of five guys with a living room style fort set up in the back of a budget truck, pants around your ankles, on the side of a massachusettes highway, huh? Hmmm. A lot of movies I don’t want to watch start like that…

    Comment by ilott the douchebag — November 19, 2007 @ 3:15 pm

  2. That’s cool Brett, keep us updated.

    Comment by Inland Empress — November 19, 2007 @ 4:45 pm

  3. Sounds like a plan, Brett. Since you’re not far from the home of LL Bean in Freeport, maybe someone could help you get them to donate some winter clothes to your effort, so that you don’t have some of your important parts freezing and falling off?

    Comment by spiritedge — November 19, 2007 @ 5:54 pm

  4. for your lack of being there sir ilott the douche, you certainly talk a big game…

    Comment by georgerocks — November 19, 2007 @ 7:58 pm

  5. I like it, I can get an (almost) daily Amtrekker dose. Can I donate green earmuffs or something? Cold ears suck.

    Comment by cdelacerda — November 20, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

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