{"id":293,"date":"2008-08-22T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-08-22T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T03:48:11","slug":"worst-trip-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Worst Trip Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/balzer.jpg\" title=\"balzer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/balzer.jpg\" alt=\"balzer.jpg\" height=\"678\" width=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on a few <a href=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=92\" target=\"_blank\">bad trips<\/a>. They all have some things in common, such as limited\/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I&#8217;ve been sitting in the hotel bar (there&#8217;s no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. E<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancewakeskate.com\" target=\"_blank\">diting, writing, video, photo, etc.<\/a> All I&#8217;ve got to show for it so far is one &#8220;dude&#8221; who didn&#8217;t get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancewakeskate.com\/photos.php?id=492\">hilarious and amazing frontside boardslide gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be so negative. More of the people here are awesome. I sort of feel important. And when I finish a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancewakeskate.com\/videos.php\" target=\"_blank\">web video<\/a> I get a little bit excited. Of course then it&#8217;s 3 hours of compression &#8217;til I can put it online and get hated on by kids, but what can you do?<\/p>\n<p>So I was positive for a second. Now I am going to vent. Here&#8217;s the list.<\/p>\n<p>-I got here a day early to go ride\/shoot. Things took an early turn for the worse when I missed my flight, thereby getting in too late to pick up my rental car. The result was an entire wasted day. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>-The hotel we are staying at is ghetto. I am a hotel snob and this non-shutting doors, gnarly carpet, and not even free bar soap does not cut it. I mean, it could be worse. I have my own bed and even my own room, but the &#8220;cabin&#8221; is just sort of gross and really expensive (not that I am paying) and there is other general weirdness here.<\/p>\n<p>-Oh my rental car! For $370 I don&#8217;t even get power locks or windows!<\/p>\n<p>-Yesterday I rode on the boat to shoot lazy photos. I got forced into rope duty and they were playing Sublime the whole time. It was basically the worst thing ever.<\/p>\n<p>-Our money is worth less than Canada&#8217;s now. What is this world coming to?<\/p>\n<p>Two more days. Then I&#8217;m going home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited\/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I&#8217;ve been sitting in the hotel bar (there&#8217;s no internet in our rooms) for at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}