The City of New York

Since my trip all around the country fell through I decided to head east for a few days. I kinda dropped in on my sister who lives in New York, giving her about a 24 hour notice.

Overrated eateries

You know those microwave White Castle sliders at the grocery store? They taste as good as fresh ones. Lets face it, White Castle sucks.

Katz's Deli is world famous. Its where Harry met Sally! Its also overrated. I'm not saying it was bad, far from it. But $25 for an ok beer and a pretty good Reuben? I've had better.

Chopping down trees

As you probably know by now our trip ended prematurely in Boise, Idaho. Since I couldn't be out on the road, the next best thing to do was go to Eugene for the game against then #9 Stanford. ESPN's College Gameday was in town but I decided against going. Its a surprising amount of work waking up at 4 AM and getting drunk. Plus I needed to save some energy for the game which didn't kick off until 5 PM.

Somebody joked that we had the brownest tailgate at the stadium which I think was actually true. We had 2 Micronesians, 1 Italian, 2 black guys and a lot of Mexicans.


Tailgating.


They played Ducktales!


The view from here is nice.

Heading back home... notes on Boise

After an extra week of hanging out on friends couches and in affordable hotel rooms it was time to go home.

The RV had a lot of shit in it so we rented a 2010 GMC Yukon, filled it with said shit and headed out of Idaho very disappointed to be ending the trip but very excited to be heading out of Idaho.

Some notes on Boise:
- Days in Idaho: 14
- Nights with RV in Wal Mart lot: Pendleton, 1 Boise, 4
- Nights in hotels: 6
- Nights on couches: 3
- Incidents involving the Police: 3
- Average number of alcoholic drinks consumed daily: 10.5
- Days without drinking at all: 2
- Hotel rooms trashed: all of them
- Boise is a (small) city but there are drink specials every night.
- Dollar beers! Quarter beers!
- Boise has the dumbest waitresses in the WHOLE world.
- The speed limit is too slow so I broke it whenever possible.
- Everyone loves BSU, theres nothing else though.
- Boise has one of the largest Basque populations in the world.
- You can smoke in some bars. Some of these bars have no ventilation. Gross.

RV is dead...College Gameday in Boise

After going to a mechanic it was determined that fixing the RV was going to take a lot more money than we hoped. New engines are expensive. Instead of going home we stuck around Boise because ESPN's College Gameday was coming in for the Boise State vs Oregon State game.

Some friends from Portland were coming to in town for the game and they arrived at all hours of the night. We went by the stadium at about 5:30 AM and there were 13,000 people in line for CGD so we went back to sleep. Eventually we hit up the game (which I watched on tv, no tickets) and tailgated in the hot ass parking lot until I felt sick. The Beavers ended up losing, which was too bad since I was actually pulling for them a little bit.

Free Budweiser

Tuesday night we were sitting at some restaurant downtown when Matt got a phone call about some event with free beer. Curiosity piqued, we wandered over to the Knitting Factory which is a small concert hall that I can only assume used to be an actual knitting factory.



Turns out there was a Budweiser event being hosted there called Battle of the Buds. It is a contest pitting teams of "buds" against each other, all vying for a trip to Vegas and the ultimate grand prize of $100,000. I didn't really give a shit about it but there was more free beer than we knew what to do with. Afterwards we stumbled over to Bad Irish and got down on some beer pong.

Stuck in Boise... party in Boise!

We had already been out drinking a few nights in Boise but since we've been stuck here we've been out pretty much every night. Good thing this is one of the cheapest towns to drink in. Every night seems to be dollar beers or 2 for 1 specials. We've been out with my cousins Ryan, Anthony, and Shane a few times and also with Matt's TKE brother Shawn.

So far we've been to:
The Endzone (x2)
Suds (x2)
Hannah's
Mack and Charlies
The Office
Cafe Ole'
The Red Room


This Mexican chick was harassing bar patrons and handing out free condoms.