I’m back! After more than 4,500 miles and 70+ hours in the car in less than 14 days, I’m back in Indianapolis. Here’s what the final itinerary looked like: Indianapolis --> Chicago --> Dallas --> Austin --> San Antonio --> South Padre Island --> San Antonio --> Austin --> Dino World --> Dallas --> South Bend --> Indianapolis --> Woodstock, Canada --> Indianapolis While it was a little colder throughout the trip than ...
Chicago Triathlon 2010 [The Race That Wasn’t Meant To Be Timed]
To those of you wondering - Yes, I'm alive and yes, I finished =). The biggest triathlon in the world. Done. One more thing off the Impossible List. Here's the story. The Night Before Saturday evening I headed downtown for the Triathlon Expo. An hour of chaos and a bag full free energy bars, I met up with Mark Lawrence, Nina Yau & Brandon James for our own mini-Chicago blogger meet-up. We had a nice pre-race dinner at a small Peruvian restaurant ...
Chicago Blogger Meetup
Chris Guillebeau of The Art of NonConformity & JD Roth of Get Rich Slowly organized a Chicago meet-up for bloggers/fans of the two sites at the Rockit Bar & Grill in Wrigleyville last night. Chris was coming back from some place exotic [like always] and was coming through Chicago, so JD flew out from Portland to take the Amtrak back west as Chris launches his newest product, The Empire Building Kit. It was a very cool opportunity. I got a chance ...
