Adventures from the Nomad

Category: Stupid human tricks

  • Exit stage left

    Well I’ve started my exit procedure for the Arab games… So far I’m a little freaked, not that I’m leaving, but that they’ve taken all forms of identification that I can use to be recognized as a US citizen… I have no ID card and no passport in hand; since rule #1 when traveling internationally…

  • An epic story

    There’s something about this season that feels a little more epic than last. I started snowboarding last season and after an epic first season of riding at Cypress, Grouse, and Whistler, I hung up the board at the end of the season thinking I wasn’t going to get the time this year. So far I’ve…

  • Happy Fourth of Something

    Celebrating our independence as a country by buying illegal fireworks from natives.  The natives buy them from the Chinese, which as of last check are still communists.  Way to go America!

  • The plank of wood

    After a thrilling day on the slopes, I made a game-changing decision: I was done with rental gear. The smell and the quality just didn’t cut it anymore. Imagine racing around a track in a semi-truck (that’s the rental) versus cruising up a mountain in a Subaru WRX STI (that’s my new gear). Trust me,…

  • Snowboarding round 2

    Not sure about this holiday… It’s feeling a little forced this year, as in I’m forcing myself to be happy, even though I’m not really feeling it. Oh well, I’ll make nice and go through the motions for everyone else, but it might be difficult. On the plus side, I went snowboarding for the second…

  • Protesters?

    In a move that doesn’t surprise me, protesters are going after the games. In all honesty there are some valid reasons to protest, and some not so valid reasons. For instance, the homeless have a good point. The games are going to displace them, but it’s common for a city to do something like that…

  • Halloween!

    In epic fashion I celebrated Halloween with a bunch of Aussies and a few Americans. The party was excellent; I went as Sir Drinks A Lot, a costume that H made for me last year. It’s a group costume and didn’t make a whole lot of sense to some people, but it worked and I…

  • I’ve been driving a forklift and doing bad things with it all week…

  • When rigging fails, sometimes it’s pretty funny

  • Day

    It’s one of the rare days that all I want is a hug when I get home…  I really dislike it when people are shitty for no reason, other then to be shitty.