Matt's Nationwide Drive Thread

[buzzsaw13]

If you're in SF, if you like Japanese food definitely head over to West lake in Daly City. Theres this hole in the wall named Tani's Kitchen. I'd love to go with you but I'm going to be leaving for vegas soon

 

[manlymatt83]

I can't believe no one wants to go hang out in San Francisco tonight!!

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
I can't believe no one wants to go hang out in San Francisco tonight!!

I'd meet you but I have to be at work at 7am tommorow and I live in the south bay.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
I can't believe no one wants to go hang out in San Francisco tonight!!

I'd meet you but I have to be at work at 7am tommorow and I live in the south bay.

Oh, live life! I'll come pick you up if you want. I'm @ SFSU right now.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
I can't believe no one wants to go hang out in San Francisco tonight!!

I'd meet you but I have to be at work at 7am tommorow and I live in the south bay.

Oh, live life! I'll come pick you up if you want. I'm @ SFSU right now.

Heh, I'd never be able to make it to work if I did. I hope that someone takes you up on your offer though.

 

[BoomerD]

San Fran is too far, but I wish I'd known you were going to Yosemite. We're right in between SF and Yosemite...we make the trip up to the park once a year or more. I actually like Sequoia/Kings Canyon more, but it's quite a bit farther.
Enjoy your stay in Norcal, make the drive up to the French Laundry and enjoy some exquisite food...

Everytime you drive over a bridge, just remember, BoomerD helped build or retrofit this thing...is it safe?

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
San Fran is too far, but I wish I'd known you were going to Yosemite. We're right in between SF and Yosemite...we make the trip up to the park once a year or more. I actually like Sequoia/Kings Canyon more, but it's quite a bit farther.
Enjoy your stay in Norcal, make the drive up to the French Laundry and enjoy some exquisite food...

Everytime you drive over a bridge, just remember, BoomerD helped build or retrofit this thing...is it safe?

haha

I actually LOVED Kings Canyon MUCH MORE than Yosemite. Kings Canyon knocked the sox off Yosemite in my opinion. Did a nice long hike and I really enjoyed it.

 

[Nik]

When you're in Portland, gimme a jingle. I'll get a few ATers together and we'll all go do ... something. I dunno. Probably involve alcohol if I'm there!

 

[manlymatt83]

Nik: Cool!!! I'll be in Portland this Thursday actually. Can we plan something for this weekend?

 

[Nik]

That works for me. Gimme a call when you're free. I think I'm off at 1pm this Friday.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: Nik
That works for me. Gimme a call when you're free. I think I'm off at 1pm this Friday.

Cool! So do we want to do something Friday night or Saturday night?

Also, who else wants to join? Can we start an official meet up thread like we did for the Phoenix meet up?

 

[manlymatt83]

Last night in San Francisco and it's 11:30. Not sure what to do. Ideas?

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Last night in San Francisco and it's 11:30. Not sure what to do. Ideas?

Get in the car, hit the road and beat the commute traffic?

Sorry, no better suggestions. For a big city, SF sure is dead after-hours...unless you're into some..."alternative lifestyles."
Is the Power Exchange still going on there? (if you go, pay careful attention!!)

http://powerexchange.com/

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Last night in San Francisco and it's 11:30. Not sure what to do. Ideas?

Get in the car, hit the road and beat the commute traffic?

Sorry, no better suggestions. For a big city, SF sure is dead after-hours...unless you're into some..."alternative lifestyles."
Is the Power Exchange still going on there? (if you go, pay careful attention!!)

http://powerexchange.com/

Uh..... well.... I'm not TOO much into the strip clubs but I was thinking of driving down to Broadway and perhaps walking around. People say it's an interesting place to walk around at night. Or perhaps heading back to Union Square and getting a beeah.

 

[manlymatt83]

So I ended up at a strip club. No idea how the hell that happened.

Anyway, onto the next city tomorrow: Portland

 

[manlymatt83]

Portland was fun!!

 

[manlymatt83]

From Nik:

My plan for a 2 hour drinking party turned into a 1.5 event and is still going

Mjewsack is awesome.

I had printed directions to get there from Googlemaps, but Markfw900 ended up being my saving grace when googlemaps FAILED me and sent me out past the freakin airport. I was surprised at google. Anyway, met markfw900 when I walked in the door and we stood around drinking a beer waiting for the rest of the people to show up. A few minutes later, I got a call from ViperGTS and Mjewsack who'd beaten us there, were seated, and making fun of us or something while we stood around like idiots waiting for them to walk in the front door. Put back a couple, talked about nerdy things that are way over my head, then decided to hit a strip club. Markfw900 considered it before deciding to head back home which is actually like 2 blocks from my house. Thanks for comin out Mark

We went to Cabaret which was great. My visa went into the bartender's skimpy top to be held for my tab. I'm not even there 5 minutes and my visa card is getting more play than I am. We stayed there a bit, I spent more money than I wanted to but had naughty bits in my face and had 2 strippers pull my face in and mash their boobs into my cheeks so I'd say overall it was megawin. I bet Jewsack $20 that he couldn't fold a dollar into a paper airplane and nail one of the strippers with it. After many failed design attempts, he nailed the biggest busted chick right in the nipple. Entertaining, but I was out a 20. That's okay, I tipped a stripper from his pile of 1's when he hit up the bathroom.

We were goign to check out the Pearl district but the cab driver we found literally took us around the block and said here you go and acted insulted when we told him it wasn't. We ended up getting a cab ride from an "independant" cab driver (read: some neo-hippy stoner musician driving around with all of his belongings in his station wagon, but knew where *everything* was) who gave us his cell and ended up coming to pick us up a couple times throughout the night and take us elsewhere. He rocks. Voodoo Doughnuts was PACKED but I need to go back because I want to find out just how disgusting a bacon-avocado doughnut really is.

ViperGTS decided to go home but Jewsack and I went back to Cabaret for a short period before cabbing back to the hilton and crashing for the night.

In the morning, we headed out for a walk and hit up the waterfront which was almost completely empty of tents and activities and people except a few at the water fountain. From there we took this designed-to-be-romantic petty cab (decidedly uncomfortable and awkward but hilarious now looking back on what other people must have thought watching us go by) ride to the max station where we rode up to the zoo and took a quick walk around washington park. From there we headed back downtown to Todai before dying of starvation and thirst. Damn weather was annoyingly humid.

From there, we headed out to ViperGTS's dad's place to pick up a fixed violin, about 5pm and continued to Seaside. Much jailbait watching was had by all before deciding to hit up Pudgy's for some seafood and beer at the bar. Met some cool people, hit on the bartender who had the biggest tits I've ever seen in real life, and headed back to Beaverton to crash at my place. We just got here about an hour ago. Tomorrow (later today?) we're gonna hit up Mio Sushi on 185th and tour around Beaverton for a bit before he leaves for Seattle.

During the mini road trip I somehow ended up talking on a cell to several of Jewsack's friends back home and am now apparently dating a busty hottie named Sandy who lives in Boston and who's already cheating on me

I originally intended to get back home about 9pm Saturday night.

Oh, and if you're going to go on a road trip, check your damn halogen fluid before you leave!

Was a fun weekend! I'm off to Seattle tomorrow!!

 

[skyking]

Did you get to Seattle?

 

[manlymatt83]

Well, Seattle was really fun! I didn't get to see too much because it was rainy, but the people were nice and the sights were good to see.

Drove from Seattle to Colorado in 3 days. Sort of regret it as I feel like I missed out on a lot of stuff in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. I may backtrack a bit into Wyoming. Stayed in a small town in ID that was really neat - a mining town where Dante's peak was filmed. The drive through Wyoming was really boring but it was pretty cool to go fast!

I'm interviewing along the way and found a job I think I really like. It would be all remote work. I have more talking to do tomorrow with them, we'll see how that works! Perhaps it will keep me on the road forever.

I'm in Colorado right now. Hung out with Odin and Lummex last night - we ate dinner and walked around downtown Denver and saw the baseball game! It was a neat time.

Off to camp with Odin now, be back tomorrow unless he's psycho.

 

[OdiN]

Damnit you shouldn't have logged in since the 24th....I could have had fun with that.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Damnit you shouldn't have logged in since the 24th....I could have had fun with that.

Why?

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: OdiN
Damnit you shouldn't have logged in since the 24th....I could have had fun with that.

Why?

Off to camp with Odin now, be back tomorrow unless he's psycho.

:evil:


Oh and yeah you seriously need to update this thread.

 

[uli2000]

Cool thread. Wish I had seen it earlier. Anyways, if your travles take you across the section of US50 known as the lonliest road, Im on the east end in Ely, NV, and though I dont have a couch to let you crash on, Id buy you dinner. Plus, it's about a hour from here to Great Basin National Park, home to Lehman caves. Its one of the smallest and also least visited national parks.

 

[manlymatt83]

Well, I'm heading home and arriving early next week. My two favorite states on the drive were Colorado and Oregon.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: uli2000
Cool thread. Wish I had seen it earlier. Anyways, if your travles take you across the section of US50 known as the lonliest road, Im on the east end in Ely, NV, and though I dont have a couch to let you crash on, Id buy you dinner. Plus, it's about a hour from here to Great Basin National Park, home to Lehman caves. Its one of the smallest and also least visited national parks.

Thanks for the info, but I was already well past Nevada.