Brooke Geery

General

State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
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State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
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State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
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State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
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Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
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States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
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The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
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State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
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State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
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State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
Read More

States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
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State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
Read More

State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
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State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
Read More

States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
Read More

State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
Read More

State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
Read More

State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
Read More

States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
Read More

State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
Read More

State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
Read More

State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
Read More

States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
Read More

State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
Read More

State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
Read More

State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
Read More

States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
Read More

State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
Read More

State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
Read More

State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
Read More

States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
Read More

States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
Read More

State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
Read More

State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
Read More

State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
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State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
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Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
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States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
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States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
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The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
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State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
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State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
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State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
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State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
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Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
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States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
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States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
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The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
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State #13: New Jersey

Circa 1998 (please note, we were there for snowboarding) Oh dirty jerz. I once went to a Stimilon big air contest at Mountain Creek and we stayed at a hotel that was in some way connected to Hugh Heffner and Playboy. I do remember an awesome 70s theme that really made me feel like I was in New Jersey. I also made two separate trips to different parts of Jerz with various ex boyfriends, but my MC experience will always be tops on the Jersey list
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State #14: California

Circa 1999. Laguna Beach When I arrived in California at age 18 for my internship at Snowboarder, it was the first time I’d seen a palm tree in real life. “It’s like 90210,” I told my friend who picked me up. Since then I’ve spent plenty of time in California, lived in Dana Point and Huntington Beach for a summer, driven almost the entire length of the 101, and considered moving to both So Cal and SF. I don’t mind an occasional visit, and I’ll eat the shit out of some In and Out, but man, I am glad I never officially settled there. [gallery=35]
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State # 15: Nevada

Circa 1999 (Photo circa 2008) I once decided Reno was my curse. I think it was around the 4th trip in a row I took there for some dumb event that I realized I might never get to travel anywhere else. The good news is, I would WAY rather be in Reno than Vegas -- a place I’ve also been a few too many times. [gallery=34]
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State # 16: Florida

Circa 1999 (This picture taken in the late 2000's but the face I make about going to Florida is the same) The first time I ever made it to Florida was freshman year of college, and I’ve since been back more times than I can count. I know the best Thai, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants in Orlando, have spent at least one night in every major city, and am a regular at the Panera Bread in Clermont. However, I have still never been to Disneyworld. [gallery=33]
Read More

Top Chef Part 3

After losing the soup off, and the Totino's Party Pizza challenge, I figured it was time to let some other people do the cooking. I brushed up on my hosting skills by studying Padma for weeks (not really) before we headed to Seattle for this latest Top Chef installment. This time it was legendary pro snowboarder Peter Line competing against my former challenger, Party Time Nate, and the theme was hot dogs! Peter was kind enough to host in his insane Seattle pent house that sort of made me feel bad about my own home. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on being a pro snowboarder after all... It was…
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States #17-20: PA, Delaware, Maryland and VA

I was sitting in my Macro Economics class at Plymouth State College when Matt Ruby and I decided we were bored with New Hampshire and would drive to Virginia to skate the new Vans park the next day. So we did, and I crossed the remaining states on the I-95 corridor off my list, circa 1999. 17.    Pennsylvania I hadn’t really spent much time in PA until Sarah decided she was moving there. I drove with her to Philly and we sat in her newly rented, empty apartment drinking the few Yuengling’s we’d picked up at a bar somewhere in the middle of the state (since you can’t just go…
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States #21-23: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Circa 2000 (no pay at the pump!) Ahh the Midwest. It's really a hard place to avoid if you want to get to one coast from another by car, so it's fitting I would hit all these states on my first cross-country trip in 2000, and have been back many times since. 21. Ohio Cleveland rocks! For a long time Ohio was a drive thru state, but during my two-month stint in Chicago, I ended up in Kent for a video premiere. I ended up making friends there, and subsequently spending a decent amount of time in Akron and Ravenna. Random. 22.    Indiana Definitely a drive-thru state, in fact, it’s…
Read More

The Inaugural Shred Blog Summit

This was the moment in the party where I thought, no one is going to come and I am going to have to drink 60 beers by myself. Photo: Jared Souney In 1997 it wasn't OK to meet people on the Internet, especially not as a 15-year-old girl. But despite all the creepy pedophiles surely lurking in AOL chat rooms, I managed to meet several people who I am still in touch with to this day. One of them was Lee Crane, who at that time was working at an early online media source essentially doomed to fail (at that point mostly because other than pedophiles, no one had computers.)…
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