this last weekend was the 42nd annual Comic Con. if for some strange reason you escaped the media blitz surrounding this event, let me give you a quick explanation of it. imagine nerds. now imagine their mecca. now imagine that large media corporations figured out that...
the final blog about our New Orleans trip is pretty much just about two things: Music & Food. and maybe not in that order. on our 2nd day in New Orleans we took the street car up Canal St. it went almost all the way to the Fairgrounds....
howdy fellow travelers of the intertubez! hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend...
Howdy, Happy 2010 y'all. for the last several years I've been doing a "Top 10" list for the year...
So a while back I got an email from an account executive at dbdchile.com. Someone at their Japanese office had sent them the street mag that my Real Luke pics were in (check them out here). They wanted to chat with me...
It was another late lazy morning. Hey, give me a break. We were on a tight schedule for 6 days! Breakfast at 8am! I sat in our windowsill, read, and drank the complimentary coffee. It was peaceful and relaxing looking out at...
Even when I'm up until 5am I still feel a little guilty about sleeping in. Less so on vacation though...
July 10th. My birthday. It was the 2nd time I'd celebrated my birthday overseas. The first time was 10 years ago. My family was in Corsica in the mountain village that the Guidici's hail from. Poggio Di Nazza is hundreds...
For our last day of riding we decided to split it up between La Parva and Valle Nevado. The weather was totally bluebird and there were some jumps that we didn't get to hit our last trip to Valle. Plus we wanted to...
This was our "off day." A day to relax and rest up. We'd been riding pretty hard, at high altitudes, in the middle of summer and were pretty sore. We didn't really sleep in, since breakfast was at the same time...
Today we'd be going to ride at Valle Nevado, we go to El Colorado and get an Interconnection to the other ski area. Paulo gave us a ride to the ski area. It was an interesting ride. Half the time he was fiddling with...
Somehow even without an alarm we woke up on time. Maybe it was the people moving around on the floor above us, maybe it was our stomachs, maybe it was the excitement of being on a trip. Whatever the case was at 8am...
We suited up and walked the 5 or so minutes over to El Colorado. We bought tickets and headed up the lift. Not a "chair," mind you but a lift, a surface lift. In this case it was a "T-bar." Now these are...
Questions: a.) Why Chile? b.) Why in July? c.) Won't it be hot there? Answers: a.) Chile has mountains. Lots of mountains. b.) My birthday is in July. c.) In addition to having mountains, Chile is also in the Southern hemisphere...
Hello Faithful Interweb Friends! Oye. It's been a while. Too long really. Why haven't I posted? There must be a good reason, right? Well...
Ah, the final part of my Japan trip. I actually feel a little sad...
yo yo. dude. duuuuude. dude. it’s been a while, I don’t know how I got off track...
Hello interweb friends, This isn’t the complete list...
On the way to the airport my car overheated. Then the parking lot was 2x as expensive as I expected. Then my assistant Aria forgot her ID and missed the flight. Purevolume Ranch. A den of debauchery. Stolen free wine opened with a makeup brush after drinking...