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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
See where
Amtrekker's been for the last 505 days.
See where Amtrekker's been for the last 505 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
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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


I Swung Danced [video]:

Hey Team,

I had an unexpectedly entertaining night jam packed with me making a fool of myself. You may not all know this, but as it turns out, the music portion of my brain is either missing or broken. As a result, my ability to listen to music is almost non-existent. This makes some relatively simple tasks much more difficult than they should be. Dancing would be one of those tasks.

And now, thanks to the wonder and magic (not a Disney Cruise Line joke) of the internet, I get to share my deficiencies with the whole world! Wow…this may have been a bad idea. But here it is anyway. A quick and dirty (and short) video of my night of swing dancing. Quick corollary: 1. My partner, Lenka, was an INCREDIBLE teacher and a billion times better than I make her look and 2. I had a REALLY good time and it made me want to not suck. I’ll be looking into swing dancing when I get back home…whenever that might be.

This video wont get posted to iTunes or the podcast RSS feed. So here on Amtrekker and YouTube are the only options this time around. It might start being a little more commonplace to see shoddily produced short clips appear here every now and again without them getting the full blown podcast treatment. Basically that means more videos. Do you kids have an opinion? Would these sketchy videos detract from the slighter better made podcasts or do they add to the overall experience? Let me know.

Okay, I’m done.

Brett.

If you liked this video, why not buy me a right foot to exchange with one of my lefts?


Don’t let me stop you.


5 Comments »

  1. Nice! Those people that don’t suck (not you) make that look really fun! Now i’ve got to learn to tango, salsa, AND swing. Apparently dry-humping girls on a dancefloor to latin music just doesn’t count like it used to…

    Comment by ilott the douchebag — October 20, 2007 @ 9:18 am

  2. love the short videos. That one was like a TV spot by mMstercard.

    P.S.
    nice footwork

    Comment by TheKendall — October 20, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

  3. Hey Brett! More videos please :)

    Comment by TheSaadia — October 20, 2007 @ 1:59 pm

  4. At least you’re good at the twirling part!

    Comment by Danielle — October 22, 2007 @ 9:12 am

  5. Did you get sticky palms cuz you were so nervous being so close to a girl! I bet you did you motor-boatin-son-a-gun!

    Comment by Mikey — October 25, 2007 @ 3:44 pm

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