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


New News:

Hey Team,

As if my life hasn’t been surreal enough for the last ten months things have just been getting progressively weirder. Here’s a fun fact: Since Friday in only four days four different Amtrekker interviews will be aired nationally a total of eleven times! How crazy is that?

Made crazier by the thought that nothing else has really changed. I still managed to find myself sitting up in a donut shop in New York because I was too dumb to arrange for a place to stay here before jumping on the bus in Boston at 11:30pm. So suddenly I found myself in Chinatown on Manhattan at 3:15 in the morning with no idea how I was supposed to fill the seven and a half hours before my next interview and no hope sleeping in that intervening time.

On the upside I’ve finally gotten around to reading all of the email I’ve received over the last week. AND, not only that but I even responded to at LEAST four pieces. That’s almost one WHOLE percent! Way to go me!

At 10:40 am today (Monday) all you Canadians will be able to see the Amtrekker interview happen live on CTV’s Canada AM. I can’t guarantee I will be coherent…but I will be there, so you should check it out too! I would have given everyone more warning but it was another spur of the moment thing where the time and place (I’ll be in one of CNN’s NY studios) wasn’t even set until earlier today. (Sunday, needless to say days kind of bleed together sometimes.)

After the interview I’ll either hope for a rideshare south so I can do some geocaching or I’ll just hop on a buddy pass provided flight to San Francisco to get thing moving over there.

I’m done.

Wish me luck.

Brett.

If you want to help out you know where to click!


Don’t let me stop you.

5 Comments »

  1. If you happen to fly back to SF, don’t hesitate to call me if you need a place to stay and/or a ride. :)

    Comment by Kristy — April 28, 2008 @ 9:53 am

  2. What the heck, I don’t know if I’m just having an off day or if it really is you but this whole post didn’t make any sense to me…

    Comment by Jess — April 28, 2008 @ 10:34 am

  3. Brett might not make sense, but I can! If you want to see how our exhaused friend fared talking with a Canadian this morning go to
    http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam
    and click on the link below the video player that says Brett Rounsaville-Amtrekker. Nothing got crossed off, but he doesn’t make an ass of himself either, which is always good.

    Comment by georgerocks — April 28, 2008 @ 12:03 pm

  4. I hear that French Canadians are demigods. They live in the woods, hunt for their food and smell of rich mohogany. They also feel like a turkey club sandwich.

    Comment by ilott the douchebag — April 28, 2008 @ 12:22 pm

  5. Hey Brett, We just finished watching the video that Georgerock directed all to, and as usual you were fantastic. We could tell by looking and watching you that you were so terribly washed out. Hope you get some rest soon. Grandma

    Comment by Grandma and Grandpa — April 28, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

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