There are a number of things that make me thankful that I live in New York City. For instance, I know all the best bands months, if not years, before you do. I also can get super drunk all night long and as long as I still possess the dexterity to hold my hand up and slur out the intersection my apartment is on, I can get home safe and sound. No DUI, no picking up cars the next morning, no bitter friends staying sober and, thus, wanting to leave way too early. And, since I live in New York, I get to let you know, at every opportunity, that everything in your city is “lesser than.”

There are also, rare as they may be, reasons I do NOT like living in NYC. Right now, the top reason is that it is so far from Eugene, Oregon. Read the rest of this entry »

So apparently there are kangaroos roaming about in Kansas.  And Kansasans apparently put them to work cleaning up their rest stops.  But only after dubbing them with the least-imaginative name possible:  Parky… the Park-Cleaning Kangaroo.

It’s no wonder Parky has been driven to drink on the job: Read the rest of this entry »

We begin this fine Thursday somewhere in Missouri. I’m not really sure where. Ben just shook me awake and said “we’re here.” And I discovered that we were, in fact, there.

So as we hit the road at an ungodly hour after little to no sleep, let’s recap:

Stops in Kent, OH; Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH; Indianapolis, IN.

Roughly 1000 miles covered. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 1/3 of our total distance covered in 1/2 of our total allotted time. Oh My!

It’s time for some giddy-up.

–Jeremy

Swung through Indianapolis and we figured we would check in on our friends at the USATF. Read the rest of this entry »