Travels
2008-08-06: The Rochester Subway
Location: Rochester, New York
With: Dziamaarsky
Highlights: Dzimaarsky and I fight against time as we head into New York State in search of Coney Dogs, Genesee and old subways.
2008-01-28: NEOPEX 07
Location: Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Highlights: It's down to the Bay State for some urban networking.
2008-01-02: Coming Home for the Holidays
Location: Fredericton & Edmunston, New Brunswick, Thetford Mines & Montreal & Hudson, Quebec, Dansville New York.
Highlights: I laboured and fought my way up to Maine's highest point. I was shocked to later learn that it was only a 5/10 on the highpoint difficulty scale.
2007-10-16: Mt. Katahdin
Location: Mt.Katahdin, Maine
Highlights: I laboured and fought my way up to Maine's highest point. I was shocked to later learn that it was only a 5/10 on the highpoint difficulty scale.
2007-10-10: I visit Big Tancook Island!
Location: Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia
Highlights: Having beautiful weather for a day on an island in the Atlantic, seeing my first bald eagle and also my first lifted Z28 Camaro.
2007-09-30: Prince Edward Island
Location: Charlottetown & Tignish & Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Highlights: Lighthouses & red sand.
2007-09-23: McNabb's Island
Location: McNabb's Island, Nova Scotia
Highlights: A great day spent on an island in the Halifax harbour wandering about some historical ruins.
2007-07-1st to 22nd: Epic 21 Day Road Trip
Location: Manistique & Marquette & Fayette & Houghton Michigan, Fargo & Minot North Dakota, Orkney Saskatchewan, Edmonton & Calgary & Dorothy & Rowley & Jasper Alberta, Kamloops & Squamish & Whistler, British Columbia, Seattle & Ellensburg & Spokane Washington, Couer d'Alene Idaho, Bozeman Montana & Perham Minnesota.
With: Kayla (partially) & Dylan (partially)
Highlights: Boats, orphanages and iron towns in Northern Michigan, Fargo skatepark, endless plains of Montana & North Dakota, ghost towns, stunning Jasper, stunning Central British Columbia, fjords, Whistler, Squamish skatepark, seeing the Mariners at Safeco and cruising around Spokane.
2007-06-17: Dziamaarsky & I head to the home of the Penguins.
Locations: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania & Youngstown, Ohio
With: Dziamaarsky
Highlights:The sub-par riding spots, but beautiful cityscape of Pittsburgh, drinking Yuengling for the first time, going to West Virginia for the first time, checking out Youngstown and a building that has since been demo 'ed, drinking Evil Eyes all the way back to Canada.
2007-06-05: Off to Chicagoland!
Locations: Chicago Illinois, Milwaukee Wisconsin & Gary Indiana
With: Roachie & Clarkson
Highlights: Roachie passing out at Wrigley, tail-gating at Brewer Park, seeing Milwaukee & Gary.
2007-02-7th to 9th: Warriner Says Goodbye in T-Dot.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
With: Warriner, Little Warriner, Whitfield, Monaghan & Ingram
Highlights: There's not multiple highlights, there was a single, great highlight - going to a dive strip club and having some Israeli-Russian stripper approach us and we question if she was challenged.
2007-01-13: Chi-Town for Playoff Football.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
With: Roachie, Clarkson, Ion & Warriner
Highlights: 5 o'clock vodka, one of our friends has a rough night at Barleycorn's and we have to deposit him at the hotel before we can get $1 all-night Coney Dogs.
2006-09-4th to 6th: Kayla & I head to Indiana for her birthday.
Locations: Indianapolis & Highest Point, Indiana
With: Kayla
Highlights: We walk around Indianapolis looking at the beautiful architecture, visit the war memorial museum and get our first state highpoints.
2006-08-22: To Colorado!
Locations: Ankeny Iowa, Omaha & North Platte & Ogallala Nebraska, Keota & Denver & Estes Park Colorado, Bosler & Cheyenne Wyoming, Shawnee Kansas & St.Louis Missouri.
With: Kayla & Dziamaarsky
Highlights: Driving through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas & Missouri for the first time, falling in love with Wyoming, seeing the Mets versus the Rockies at Coors Field, shopping at a grocery store in small town western Nebraska, Dziamaarsky rocking a leather vest in a western wear store, garbage Iowa skateparks and rad Kansas one. Oh yeah, AND GOING TO THE LOU!
2006-07-08: Nine Day Filming Trip
Locations: Milton & Penetanguishene & Kitchener, Ontario
With: Evan, Kevin Jones, Dylan & Bart
Highlights: I fall off a pool house on the first day of the trip and then only get about 11 clips in a total of nine days. At least the Penetanguishene park was cool.
2006-03-4th to 6th: Metro Jam '06
Location: Toronto, Ontario
With: Don, Steve, Dziamaarsky, Dylan, Quiz, Evan & Jason
Highlights: The first Metro Jam in the van. The boys get plenty drunk and feisty to the 3 6 mafia; we harass Dave Mirra, Steve gets a ticket on Yonge street when 3 of us have open 40's, we drink at the Metro Jam itself.
2006-01-14: The Start of our Chicago Bears Playoff Weekend Trips
Location: Chicago, Illinois
With: Roachie, Monaghan, Clarkson & Russell
Highlights: Clarkson & Roachie finishing a 24 of High Life before Michigan ended; Hardee's, 5 drunks singing Good News for People Who Like Bad News, the start of our John Barleycorn's tradition, Clarkson being mistaken for a vagrant, Monaghan impersonating Mystikal, drinking High Lifes in a van on the DePaul campus while listening to the Colts game.
2005-12-02: Going, Going, Back, Back, to Cincy, Cincy
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
With: Kayla
Highlights: After falling in love with Cincy on the road trip to Kentucky, Kayla treats me to a road trip there for my birthday.
2005-10-15: Squeezing in One More Road Trip
Location: Chicago, Illinois
With: Dziamaarsky & Donnie
Highlights: A day trip to Chicago since Don & Dziamaarsky hadn't been there yet. We hit some ledges, the seawall and didn't end up leaving Chicago until 1a.m..
2005-09-5th & 6th: Spur of the Moment Trip to Kentucky
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
With: Dziamaarsky, Don, Jason & Seth
Highlights: Riding Louisville skatepark until 4a.m. and then getting up the next day to ride street. We also got a kick out of the southern 'drawl' accents.
2005-07-6th to 10th: Biking in Barrie
Location: Barrie & Orillia & Collingwood, Ontario
With: Dziamaarsky & Bartek
Highlights: Biking and drinking in the Barrie area.
2005-06-14th to 25th: 2nd Time in Alberta
Locations: St.Paul Minnesota, Fargo North Dakota, Montana, Chauvin & Vermillion Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba & Madison, Wisconsin.
With: Kayla
Highlights: Riding the Fargo Skatepark, homesteads in middle of nowhere Alberta, hitting deer in Saskatchewan, the world's largest softball & buffalo; as well as shrink wrapped pickles.
2005-03-05: Metro Jam '05
Location: Toronto, Ontario
With: Dylan, Don, Quiz, Evan, Seth & Dziamaarsky
Highlights: Dylan being smashed in Ridgetown, Navi throwing up in Milton, Club Toronto gay steam baths, Zipper's, Pat Sajak is in the cock mob.
31 states & 9 provinces.