8 Day trip

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Santa Rosa, CA - see my momma
San Francisco, CA for EO GLC San Francisco
Chicago, Illinois - Zimmy’s getting married and Cubs games

Dancing in the Himalayas

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Backstory: Our guide, Bishnu and and porter Drupa, loved this Nepali Musician (watch video to listen). As we started our trek in some small town, they bought a little tape player and the tape of this artist. Almost every town we came into, Bishnu and Drupa would break out into a dance and start jamming, Nepali style. Eventually Adam and I caught on and just didn’t care that we looked like wankers and just danced.

So, it was a great time. I am thinking of seriously going ... [read on]

Lea Elia Cub Rant

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via Money Players

Andrew Bogut High 5’s himself

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Lunchtime reading - a good sense of humor for this Aussie.

Lonely Planet Writer: Bad Seed

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I just saw this article on CNN about a LP writer that plagirized, didn’t goto the countries, and was a general arse.

Thomas Kohnstamm, who has written a book on his misadventures, also said he didn’t travel to Colombia to write the guidebook on the country because “they didn’t pay me enough,” The Daily Telegraph reported.

“I wrote the book in San Francisco [California],” he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph. “I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate.”

My questions for this arse hole are:

1) Why did you take the ... [read on]

BootsnAll Insiders and Portland Hipsters

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We have a new ad running on BnA for our updated Insiders section:

They guy on this images is awesome. Could totally pass for a Portland Hipster, which as I get older, is hard to be. But a lot of the BnA die hards over the years are bad arse experts on a part of travel in their own right. If you got some travel skillz, share it there with an intimate non-troll bait community.

Masturbating in Hostels: How to without disturbing your neighbors and

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not be a perve. This thread on masturbating in hostels absolutely cracked me up. I love the real answers, joke answers and puns on this topic.

Static replies:

Is this why they call us “Yanks”?

Hilarious stuff. I love that folks are not afraid to bring this sorta stuff up, and still keep it reasonable.

Sean Keener and friends, 1995

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An old friend sent this scanned photo to me the other day. Good memories and funny to see how young I looked. It was the spring of 1995 at a bar called Redmond’s in Chicago, Illinois

BootsnAll on CNN

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We’ve been mentioned and linked to many times over the years, from blogs, to websites, to the folks at CNN, WSJ and other MSM folks. It’s always a pleasure to be regarded as an expert in one area or another.

CNN featured some of our content last friday: Gadgets for the Road.

An interesting sidenote on it from a traffic perspective, even though our site is linked prominently in the flash display of the article/feature, it has driven only 22 visitors to Travel Gear Blog since the article almost 6 days ago. When I clicked the link, ... [read on]

Shaq Arse = Jack Arse

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You’ve won 4 NBA titles, you been paid in the 100’s of millions of dollars in salary and endorsements to play a game, and you still have to rip on the people that you worked with. Everywhere this guy goes, he rips on the people after he leaves.

Get ready Phoenix, when he’s done with you Steve Nash, he’ll tell the world how bad you treated him etc. History is the best indicator for the future.

Agreed with Pat Riley - it’s sad.