t and a little shorter. If you have a problem with this take it up with the man who told me. Lets call him..... Homer......no wait.....Gomer....how about Jason. Yea Jason Burstein. Anyways..... I am currently in Nashville Tennessee in a Hilton Garden Inn flipping channels back and forth from The Man in the Iron Mask to Hitch. I love Hilton Garden Inns. mostly because when you check in, they have warm cookies waiting for you at the front desk that i mow through. Its awesome. Soo, when I last posted I was in St. Louis whining about the ghost piano above my meeting room. After that seminar, I flew to Phoenix right after that and had an amazing cab driver who used to be a New York Police detective. Every other word out of his mouth was either 'rat-bastard', shithead, pussyface, or motherfucker. He was hilarious and had th
e thickest New York accent I have ever heard. We had a quick 
seminar and drove to the airport where I arrived in Seattle around 8 on Thursday night. This next segment I will call a "shitstorm" of traveling down to San Antonio to see the WSU game and spend a night on the riverwalk for Halloween. After flying home from Phoenix, I had dinner with Steve, and repacked my luggage. After a pointless day in the office, a coworker and I headed to the airport, but en route got a call from our company saying we wont make it to San Antonio till the next day around 2 or 3. We said fuck that. Get us as close to San Antonio as ya can and we will drive the rest. So we flew into Houston, and drive to San Antonio, arriving at 130 in the morning. By this time, everybody was drunk and Hillary and I were tired as hell. We woke up in the morning went to the football game (miserable) and later that night went to the riverwalk to party it up. It was great. I really enjoyed the riverwalk. I could have stayed a couple more days down there and felt like it was worth my time. After a total of 30 hours in San Antonio, I bounced to Singh-Singh-nasty, Ohio. (Cincinnati)...yea, Im an idiot. In Cincinnati, I began a week of having 2 speakers for a week. Its a new deal that BER is doing so they can save money. Both my speakers were great. Super nice and fun to talk to and easy to get along with. It makes the process 10X easier if they are like that. I have been to Cincinnati before, and like every other time, it was uneventful. I thought maybe this time I would show up and maybe Singh-Singh-Nasty didnt suck ass. Oh well. Anyways, from there we made our way to Columbus, Oh where we went to a Man vs Food restaurant called Schmidts Sausage House. It was good. They had MASSIVE eclairs and I got one. (pictured above)
****Quick Side Note: I dont remember the ending to The Man in the Iron Mask being so shitty. My opinion of this movie has changed completely. What a bum out.
.....So this Schmidts place had awesome German food. Great sausages and killer potatoes. After Columbus, Oh, We went to Toledo, Oh. Now, I have been to some pretty depressed towns around America, but this place was pretty bad. It was a big town, but NOBODY was there. All these high rise building, absolutely vacant. It was ridiculous. Kirsten Varg, a BER coworker and friend was in town and we decided to walk out into "town" to get lunch. We didnt walk far before somebody was smoking weed in a bus stop and we got nagged for change. It seems the town was inhabited..... by homeless people. I was wrong. This town had been hit by the failing auto industry. Its only 30 miles from Detroit. Alright alright, enough depression talk. After depression town, we headed to Grand Rapids, MI which I love. Its an awesome city and BER always puts me up in a nice hotel. There is also a restaurant called The Pita House that has the best gyros and kabobs outside of Santorinis in Kirkland. There is a picture of it above. Grand Rapids has an amazing downtown with a river running through it, and clean streets. I have blogged about how much I like this place, but will go ahead and gush some more. After Grand Rapids, we made our way to Detroit and stayed in a remodeled Raddison. It was nice.
After the seminar in Detroit, I made my way to the airport to catch a flight to Washington DC where I would meet up with My friend Omer/Jason and Eric Bleeker. I flew into Baltimore around 730 and we were staying in the Intercontinental right downtown. We had some food at Chicago restaurant Uno, and had some beers. We went out in an area called Power plant that was filled with ho and d-bags and proceeded to p-tay down. We woke up in the morning feeling feeling and looking like bags of shit and drove down to Washington DC. We hung out at Erics place for a bit but then made our way into the city to see some sights. We passed by the Arlington National Cemetery, went to the National cathedral, and drove through a street where most of the embassies were. The different tastes and stylings these embassies had were interesting. Some of them were just townhomes, but others were like mansions and victorian estates. We later went out to an area called Adams Morgan, which I guess is typically know for being the place where everyone only comes out of the bars to puke there brains out and then go back in to have another brew. There are also a couple pizza restaurants around that area, that compete to have the biggest pizza slices. There are some picture of how big they are. Not only were these pizza slices stupid big, but they were good. Well after a second night of redonk a donkey punch antics, we woke up and went to a place called Old Emmets for brunch. It was delicious. Great food, great atmosphere, and HUGE restaurant. After that I boarded a plane and have headed here to Nashville, TN. The next few days will be easy and I look forward to it. I will be blogging shorter entries and more frequently hopefully, and will keep ya updated on everything, Well Im tired people and need to go to bed. Hope all of you are livin the dream. Deuces from Nashville homies....
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