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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


I Flunked Hitchhiking [podcast]:

Hey Team,

Yesterday was pretty rough. I spent almost twelve hours either on a bus or waiting for a bus and didn’t have my first bite of food until 10 o’clock…at night. I also had my first big Amtrekker failure. And lucky you, you get to watch! Hope you enjoy my misery.

As always if you have problems with the player or with Quicktime you can head to iTunes and download it there our click here and watch the youtube version.

I’m done.

Brett.

If you liked this video why not buy me a better sign?


Don’t let me stop you.


This entry was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 2:32 am.

9 Comments »

  1. Dude, so sad….

    Hitchiking is an art that must only be engaged in the right circumstances that favour a positive outcome. NJ at night, not favourable… even in good situations (like near Whistler, on Vancouver island in Australia near hippie towns I’ve waited for a couple of hours sometimes.

    What’s the plan now since you missed the rollercoaster? Does this mean that you are on the road til April for sure? It might take that long anyways to get through ths list, maybe it’ll just be the last thing you do? Heck, I just realized I’m asking you about making plans, that’s just stupid.

    big hugs to you, have a fun trek to Boston, I’m sure those douche bags will cheer you up a bunch!

    Comment by FluffyEvil — October 29, 2007 @ 9:28 am

  2. Aww I’m sorry Brett…thats really sad…I have a big problem with douchebags in Hummers too.

    Comment by Jess — October 29, 2007 @ 12:10 pm

  3. ah, yeah. It’s okay. You’ll get through this and you’ll feel really good when you do. For the Grand Canyon trip… you really want to plan for spring time anyway because you can freeze to death in winter and dehydrate in summer. Good luck Brett!!

    Comment by Inland Empress — October 29, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

  4. That sucks man, sorry to see that. Hitchiking ain’t what it used to be. The one great thing out of that podcast is your singing “Sweet Caroline” on the side of the road, probably as the Sox were playing. Nice.

    Comment by lizzz — October 29, 2007 @ 9:25 pm

  5. Thanks for all the support guys! Don’t worry about me…I’m a tough cookie. I mean…if I were a cookie, that is.

    Actually, if I WERE a cookie I think I would be something tastier than a tough cookie. Something more universally liked. Chocolate chip maybe. I’ll go ponder that…

    Comment by Brett — October 30, 2007 @ 1:09 am

  6. in with another suggestion: Maybe you can convince some other roller coaster operator to run their thing really fast for you once, making it temporarily the fastest

    Comment by alek — October 30, 2007 @ 7:46 am

  7. Dear Brett,

    You can give a fish a dollar, but don’t expect change. ENOUGH SAID!

    Comment by Mikey — October 30, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

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