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		<title>Buffalo, NY &#8211; We made it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were met at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport by three local news reporters. We felt like we had been caught in some dirty-love-pentagon and now we had to answer for our carnal sins to our media mistresses. Here is  Andrew Pierrotti&#8217;s version of our story:

NBC Affiliate &#8211; WGRZ&#8217;s Coverage
WIBV Ch. 4&#8217;s Coverage
ABC Affiliate &#8211; WKBW&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We were met at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport by three local news reporters. We felt like we had been caught in some dirty-love-pentagon and now we had to answer for our carnal sins to our media mistresses.<br/> Here is  Andrew Pierrotti&#8217;s version of our story:</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70899&#038;catid=37" target="_blank">NBC Affiliate &#8211; WGRZ&#8217;s Coverage</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/offbeat/WNYers_travel_to_30_cities_in_30_days_20091009" target="_blank">WIBV Ch. 4&#8217;s Coverage</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wkbw.com/news/63844267.html" target="_blank">ABC Affiliate &#8211; WKBW&#8217;s Coverage</a>
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<p>Our trip may be over, but the story continues.  We finally have time to deliver all our content to you our loyal fans!</p>
<p>Stay tuned over the next few days and weeks as we update the blog with the detailed accounts of our travels in each city.  We have TONS of Pictures and HOURS of Video to edit down and deliver to you!</p>
<p>We are thankful for all the support that you have shown us during our Journey, we appreciate the comments, the donations, and those of you who hosted us as we crisscrossed the United States!</p>
<p>If you are just joining us for the first time, please check out our posts from the beginning of the journey until now.  Also, you can <a target="_blank" href="http://facebook.com/12hrs" target="_blank">become a fan on our facebook page</a> and read through our status updates to get an insiders perspective on the trip.</p>
<p>If you are a publisher, please contact us.  We would love to produce a book about our travels, we have detailed notes and beautiful imagery to support our stories!</p>
<p><strong>Stay Tuned!  The BEST is yet to come!</strong></P></p>
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		<title>San Diego</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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We arrived in San Diego around 7pm and were greeted at the airport by our driver for the night. We packed into the Suburban provided to us by La Costa Limousine and headed over to our friend Savi&#8217;s house, where we planned on staying.

By the time we got there and started planning out the night [...]]]></description>
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<p>We arrived in San Diego around 7pm and were greeted at the airport by our driver for the night. We packed into the Suburban provided to us by La Costa Limousine and headed over to our friend Savi&#8217;s house, where we planned on staying.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/3961414604_ff8919d032.jpg"></img></p>
<p>By the time we got there and started planning out the night it was clear to us that a Suburban was just not going to cut it. What happens next is why I love my life. Walk out to the limo driver ask him if we can get a bigger car, now mind you we&#8217;re not paying for anything, he tells me &#8220;Not a problem, I&#8217;ll be back in an hour.&#8221; This is customer service. Amazing.</p>
<p>So when the new limo arrives we pack in and head to a place called Side Bar. This is probably the most bumping club in San Diego this night, line is around the block, idiots at the door paying $100 just to cut the line and get it.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re having none of this nonsense. We walk up to the bouncer tell them who we are and that we&#8217;d love to tell everyone how great the place is. The rope is opened and we walk right in. That&#8217;s just how this whole trip has been. One awesome experience after another. So Side Bar is packed to the gills but it&#8217;s actually surprisingly reasonable to drink in (beers were $5).</p>
<p>After being classy we decided it was time to skeez it up a little and headed to a place called &#8220;The Tavern at the Beach.&#8221; Talk about an interesting group of people. Every girl in there looked like a stripper in training. Literally. It was like shooting fish in a barrel with a fucking MOAB. Really wonderful stuff. Of course the staff at the bar loved us and took care of our tab for the night. We headed back to Savi&#8217;s house to catch some sleep.</p>
<p><img src=""></img></p>
<p>We woke up at 8am to our driver arriving for the day. La Costa decided to send us off in style and provided us with a STRETCH ESCALADE for the day. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2505/3961414718_13273ec779.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Upon discovery of this massive ride we decided it was time to partake in some cliff diving. We roll up to the cliffs, get out and eye up the situation. Only Savi, Clark and Joe were man enough to leap the 30 feet into the Pacific. Talk about a great way to wake up, caffeine can&#8217;t touch cliff diving. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2505/3960638285_333c3b9d1c.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Once we were sufficiently amped up we took a ride into Old Town to get some AUTHENTIC Mexican food. This restaurant was literally on the Mexican border and you could taste it in the food. To make things better there was a 80 year old Mariachi walking around the place playing music. Real Huevos Rancheros rule. Check out the pics:</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2510/3961414194_d7c5707cf5.jpg"></img></p>
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<p>San Diego is an absolute beautiful city and Old Town is a really remarkable little place. It&#8217;s definitely on our list of places to come back to.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/3961414162_6d84d95061.jpg"></img></p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2591/3960639425_792c1d6d0d.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Now it was time to head to Salt Lake City to hang out with some JetBlue staffers. See ya there!</p>
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		<title>Tampa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon landing in Tampa, FL we stumbled into an opportunity to capture a genuine moment that perfectly describes the generational shift from our parents generation to ours. Joe was sporting his &#8220;narcissist&#8221; t-shirt (black with white letters) and we happen to run into an old hippie wearing a shirt that said &#8220;Imagine&#8221; (white with black [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Upon landing in Tampa, FL we stumbled into an opportunity to capture a genuine moment that perfectly describes the generational shift from our parents generation to ours. Joe was sporting his &#8220;narcissist&#8221; t-shirt (black with white letters) and we happen to run into an old hippie wearing a shirt that said &#8220;Imagine&#8221; (white with black letters) a more perfect picture couldn&#8217;t have been planned.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/3960546603_081722e8e3.jpg"></img></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been having such a wild time on this journey we were super excited to have a what we expected to be a pretty chill night in Tampa, FL. We met up with our host for the night, Sam, at the airport and took a quick ride over to his place to shower and charge up our phones.</p>
<p>Sam, a friend of our friend Marty from home, fit in with the crew perfectly. Young, wild and ready to party from the word &#8220;go&#8221;.</p>
<p>Our first stop was a cool hockey pub called Hattrick&#8217;s (Get it?). We went there for the $1.50 drafts and 25 cent wings, but we ended up getting so much more. Sitting at the bar enjoying what were actually pretty good Buffalo Wings there suddenly appeared a mildly intoxicated Cougar next to us. Since it&#8217;s our job to be social and talkative we immediately started a conversation with her.  Well one thing led to another (doesn&#8217;t it always) and she ends up telling us that her hot daughter is a WWE Diva. Of course our ears perked up right away, we had to meet up.</p>
<p>Normally when talking to a girl&#8217;s mom you have to be respectful and at least pretend like you&#8217;re not totally interested in hooking up with her daughter. Then maybe, just maybe she&#8217;ll ask for your number and with any luck the daughter will call you and you take it from there. NOT THIS TIME. Mother dearest just gives us her daughters number sends her a text saying &#8220;You have to meet up with these guys&#8221; and boom! We&#8217;re gonna chill with a WWE Diva in a couple hours.</p>
<p>Obviously excited to be body slammed by a hot chick we head back to Sam&#8217;s to get ready for what hopefully doesn&#8217;t end up being rest night. After getting pretty we headed out to meet up with this Diva. </p>
<p>She didn&#8217;t disappoint. I&#8217;m pretty sure she fell in love with Clark, which is nice for him. You know a chick is serious when she orders Tequila straight up. It&#8217;s always exciting to learn about other people&#8217;s crazy occupations, like professional wrestling. She had some pretty wild stories and loved telling them, great personality to make it in the WWE. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/3960546767_93dd27ea0b.jpg"></img></p>
<p>We decided it was time to head to a bar with some AC so we went to &#8220;The Rack.&#8221; Now this is an interesting place, 1 level but 5 different rooms each with their own bar and each getting incrementally more &#8220;classy&#8221;, starting with a room filled with pool tables and ultimately culminating in a sushi bar room. Very cool. The other interesting thing about this bar is it was PACKED with 10&#8217;s. Like 4 deep at every bar, just tons of hot babes. It was wonderful.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3961320450_4d7c32286d.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Tampa, unlike a place like South Beach, is actually really reasonable to hang out in. While it&#8217;s just as douchey as Miami the fact that you can get sub $4 drinks and 25 cent wings really makes it a nice place to visit. The downside is it&#8217;s not a central city at all. Everything is a 10 minute cab ride away so if you don&#8217;t have transport the cost savings drinking could get offset pretty easy if you move around a lot.</p>
<p>After a reasonable amount of time out we headed home to get classy for San Diego. See ya there!</p>
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		<title>Sacramento</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was one of the most fun days we&#8217;ve had yet. We arrived in Sacramento greeted by car service provided by Corporate Transport Solutions, our new official transportation coordinator (www.ctslimo.com).
After a short ride from the Airport into Old Sacramento, we pulled up to the Delta King hotel. Now this is no normal hotel, it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was one of the most fun days we&#8217;ve had yet. We arrived in Sacramento greeted by car service provided by Corporate Transport Solutions, our new official transportation coordinator (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ctslimo.com">www.ctslimo.com</a>).</p>
<p>After a short ride from the Airport into Old Sacramento, we pulled up to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deltaking.com/" target="_blank">Delta King</a> hotel. Now this is no normal hotel, it&#8217;s a retired steam paddle boat. Upon arrival I had the strong urge to find a lounge, light up a cigar and start playing poker with Maverick and the gang.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/3961304876_e54f4667e8.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Clark just got himself a Blackberry and hasn&#8217;t quite mastered changing timezones with it yet. What does this mean? It means he starts kicking me violently at 2:30 am trying to convince me it&#8217;s 5:30 in the morning and the TV crew is waiting for us. Oh, it also means he called the producer at 2:30 in the morning to see where she was. Turns out she was in bed sleeping. Neither her nor I were amused.</p>
<p>Eventually 5:30 am did in fact roll around and it was actually time to get up. We wandered down to the front of the hotel and the phrase &#8220;blown away&#8221; doesn&#8217;t begin to describe our reaction to what we walked into: Full TV crew, live feed van, and a massive limo bus. For three dudes. That&#8217;s right, three guys, one limo party bus. That&#8217;s how we roll.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3473/3960534461_af5535885e.jpg"></img></p>
<p>After a quick meet and greet with Mark S. Allen from CW31 in Sacramento, and Chris Quinn, the owner of Corporate Transport Solutions, it was time to do our first live shot. I nailed it like the natural I am. No nerves, I looked beautiful and I pronounced my own name correctly. Clearly, a star is born.</p>
<p>During our live teaser spot, as we call it in the industry, we were informed that the CW set up a little adventure for us. Clark and I were going to go on something called &#8220;the Screamer,&#8221; which is basically this long post with two seats at the end that spins around and tries to scare the crap out of you. Sounds like a blast. So off we went.</p>
<p>Now, when you&#8217;re about to experience some crazy g-forces in all sorts of directions, it&#8217;s always a good idea to stop by Denny&#8217;s for a quick breakfast. So that&#8217;s exactly what we did. If you&#8217;ve never had a Grand Slam Wrap (yeah, wrap)—don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s one of the most awful things I&#8217;ve ever eaten. Take a grand slam (eggs, sausage, pancakes, syrup, biscuit) and put it in a tortilla. Yeah there was syrup in the tortilla. Gross.</p>
<p>At this point, my stomach was already not loving me for downing what had to be a minimum of 2,000 calories of the most processed, unhealthy food on the planet. Whenever my body decides I&#8217;m doing something bad to it, I just have to up the punishment level so it knows not to act up in the future. Obviously in this scenario it meant strapping into the Screamer and seeing if the ride operators could assist me in refunding the Grand Slam Wrap that was slowly digesting. Check the video, it really shouldn&#8217;t be called the &#8220;Screamer&#8221; as much as it should be called the &#8220;Giggle Machine&#8221; because that&#8217;s really all that happened. It was a good time. (Video on its way.)</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2510/3961308658_41c35b1fda.jpg"></img></p>
<p>After Clark and I regained our balance and stopped sounding like 13 year old girls meeting John Mayer, we got in the party bus and headed to do our first Live studio segment (watch it <a target="_blank" href="http://gooddaysacramento.com/?articleID=60562">here</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://gooddaysacramento.com/?articleID=60567">here</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://gooddaysacramento.com/?articleID=60570">here</a>).</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3960533085_36f921ae5c.jpg"></img></p>
<p>This was totally a trip. It was our first time in a green room, our first time on a studio set (that was really, really impressive), and my first time dealing with multiple cameras to look into.</p>
<p>The best part about being us right now (aside from limo rides everywhere, free hotel rooms and being showered in free drinks) is meeting people who have careers we&#8217;d kill for and all they do is tell us how awesome we are and how much they want to be us. Today we heard this from about half a dozen news anchors and reporters, so that ruled.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/3961306982_19f2e38126.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Mark told us to head to Mecca Club after Good Day Sacramento and have a couple pitchers on him. This sounded like a fantastic idea and that&#8217;s precisely what we did. Upon arrival at Mecca it was clear that this was our kind of place. I mean, it was 11:30 in the morning and the bar was packed and the majority of patrons had clearly been drinking for awhile. The beer at Mecca was probably the coldest I&#8217;ve ever drank, and after a hard day being on television there&#8217;s nothing better than a cold, cold beer.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/3960531739_71d05e7a59.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Since there&#8217;s not a ton of stuff to do in Sacramento during the day, we figured now would be a good chance to hit up a college campus and check out the local chapter of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tke.org/" target="_blank">TKE</a> (Clark&#8217;s Fraternity). On our way to UC Davis we stopped by Vince&#8217;s for what we were told are the best steak sandwiches anywhere. TOTALLY FALSE INFORMATION. These things aren&#8217;t even in the same class as the Pink&#8217;s steak sandwich. I mean, I hesitate to call it a steak sandwich, that&#8217;s how insulting it is to compare the culinary masterpiece from the Pink to this impostor.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/3960531215_908fff12e1.jpg"></img></p>
<p>After meeting up with some of Clark&#8217;s brothers and teaching college kids some lessons we&#8217;ve learned in life, we all felt it was time for a nice relaxing swim. We took a quick trip over to a brother&#8217;s apartment and relaxed for a few hours before heading to the airport for yet another flight.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2594/3960530911_230612c63f.jpg"></img></p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3520/3960530779_a0be66ef18.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Sacramento was a fun city and being on Good Day Sacramento was an amazing experience.</p>
<p>See ya in Tampa, kids!</p>
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		<title>New Orleans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in New Orleans in the afternoon, after a half-day stay at our &#8220;apartment&#8221; in New York (JFK:T5). We were picked up at the airport by our host, Renso Amariz, a feature-length film director whose current project is called: &#8220;The Local 504&#8243;. It&#8217;s a story about a United States resistance group that continues to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We arrived in New Orleans in the afternoon, after a half-day stay at our &#8220;apartment&#8221; in New York (JFK:T5). We were picked up at the airport by our host, Renso Amariz, a feature-length film director whose current project is called: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thelocal504.com/" target="_blank">&#8220;The Local 504&#8243;</a>. It&#8217;s a story about a United States resistance group that continues to fight after the Soviet Union captured and occupied the United States in an alternative historical time line. We were put in contact with Renso through Clark&#8217;s friend, and Renso&#8217;s Navy buddy, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aaroningrao.com" target="_blank">Aaron Ingrao</a>.</p>
<p>First stop was the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.neworleanscvb.com/" target="_blank">New Orleans CVB</a> to pick up our VIP passes and to collect a list of places of interest. There was a lot of interesting information, but most of the attractions listed were too touristy for the #12hrs crew.  At that point we told Renso, &#8220;show us the local version of uptown!&#8221; —and off we went on another Twelve Hour demolition derby.</p>
<p>It was around this point that Joe broke the news that he&#8217;d be leaving the trip—but only temporarily—he had to return to Buffalo <em>to quit his job</em>! He had taken all his available vacation time in order to go on this journey, but the-powers-that-be were unhappy that he was taking it all at once—so they gave him an ultimatum, and he responded. The only catch with this was that Joe&#8217;s flight was at 6 am, and since Clark (AKA Mom, AKA The Tour Manager) wasn&#8217;t going on it, he wouldn&#8217;t be waking everyone up. The crew was going to have to party straight through to wheels-up, or Joe risked losing a ton of money.</p>
<p>We headed to Renso&#8217;s house, took some quick showers and charged all our gear—we knew this night was going to run long so we needed to have full power. While at the house, Renso&#8217;s roommate introduced us to an incredibly niche genre of Hip Hop called &#8220;Sissy-Bounce,&#8221; which only exists in New Orleans at this point. He also made us aware that one of the forerunners of the genre, Sissy Nobby, would be performing live at the Dragon&#8217;s Den that night!</p>
<p><strong>So what is &#8220;Sissy Bounce&#8221;?</strong> Some things are best described using video:<br />
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<p>Needless to say, after witnessing the video we had no choice but to go to this show and experience this fascinating microcosm of the hip hop universe. Ultra-Pride, Dirty South, Hip Hop?! In a musical genre that is known for its homophobia and misogyny? We had to meet these trend setters and witness this social upheaval that started in the dance hall.</p>
<p>It was time to head out and start seeing the sights and tasting the flavors of the creole country. Our first stop was the &#8220;Ernie K-Doe: Mother-In-Law Lounge,&#8221; this colorful establishment is family run and was established after the death of <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_K-Doe" target="_blank">Ernie K-Doe</a> in 2001. It is a vibrantly colorful establishment, full of live music, life, and the history of &#8220;The Emperor of the Universe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Upon Renso&#8217;s recommendation, we headed to Parasol&#8217;s to get &#8220;the best Po&#8217; Boys in town.&#8221; To be honest, neither Joe nor Steve were overly impressed with the food, but it was filling and gave us enough fuel to drink through the night. Carrie, the bartender at Parasol&#8217;s, was a Buffalo native and informed us that Drew Love, one of our favorite bartenders from the Pink, had bought us several shots, long distance. It&#8217;s always great meeting people from Buffalo on this trip. </p>
<p>After the Po&#8217; Boys, it was off to Dragon&#8217;s Den to check out the <strong>Sissy Nobby</strong> show. This club was was probably what dudes were looking at when they came up with the word &#8220;sweatbox,&#8221; it was about 115 degrees in the place and so humid that water droplets glowed around light sources.</p>
<p>Clark went up to the band after the first set, and challenged one of the MCs to an ass shake-off. This was a foolish endeavor since Clark had never tried to &#8220;drop it like it&#8217;s hot&#8221; before. However, over the course of the competition, we were able to capture some hilarious video.</p>
<p>After the <strong>Sissy Nobby</strong> show, Steve and Jeremy traveled to Harrah&#8217;s to participate in some games of chance, while Clark, Renso, and Joe headed to Bourbon<br />
Street for a tour of what the city had to offer. The bar crawl continued for quite awhile, and eventually the boys decided that they needed to head back to Parasol&#8217;s to be closer to Renso&#8217;s house.</p>
<p>After celebrating the fact that the restaurant was open &#8220;after-hours,&#8221; Joe headed home to Buffalo, NY to quit his day job. The next morning, Clark and Steve ran into their first logistical screw up and almost missed their flight out to LA. Running through an airport last-minute was inevitable at some point in this trip, but they made the flight.</p>
<p>See ya in LA!</p>
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		<title>San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://www.twelvehoursinacity.com/2009/09/25/san-francisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Austin in the very early morning hours and headed to the Bay area. We were greeted by KPIX &#8211; CBS Channel 5 and a limo from Bauer&#8217;s Limo.
We headed downtown to film our segment for the news. We were &#8220;surprised&#8221; with a &#8220;special&#8221; guest, Dave from CBS 5&#8217;s travel show. The whole crew [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We left Austin in the very early morning hours and headed to the Bay area. We were greeted by <a target="_blank" href="cbs5.com" target="_blank">KPIX &#8211; CBS Channel 5</a> and a limo from <a target="_blank" href="www.bauerslimo.com" target="_blank">Bauer&#8217;s Limo</a>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="KPIX Van" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/3942516833_9daf9eb5c3.jpg" alt="KPIX Van" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">KPIX Van</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="#12hrs and KPIX Crew Shot" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/3942517083_1521baa30b.jpg" alt="#12hrs and KPIX Crew Shot" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">#12hrs and KPIX Crew Shot</p></div>
<p>We headed downtown to film our segment for the news. We were &#8220;surprised&#8221; with a &#8220;special&#8221; guest, Dave from CBS 5&#8217;s travel show. The whole crew was very excited to meet Dave. You can see our antics on KPIX here: <a target="_blank" href="http://cbs5.com/video/?id=55446@kpix.dayport.com" target="_blank">Video</a></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Special Guest - Dave" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/3943295072_c2ce81f1e8.jpg" alt="Special Guest - Dave" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Special Guest&quot; - Dave</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Dave gives Joe Crabs" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/3943294908_a9641bbc80.jpg" alt="Dave gives Joe Crabs and Joe tweets about it." width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dave gives Joe Crabs and Joe tweets about it.</p></div>
<p>Dave walked us down to Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf and treated us to some delicious crab. Fresh seafood is always so much better than the stuff we get in Buffalo.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Crabs!" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3942517731_14735b8cca.jpg" alt="Crabs!" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Crabs!</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Stunning by our whips" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3509/3942515059_413f8980b4.jpg" alt="Stunning by our whips" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stunning by our whips</p></div>
<p>After this it was time for the real fun to start. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gocartours.com/sanfrancisco.html" target="_blank">GO CARS</a>!  These things are absolutely wild, albeit a little lacking on the torque side (<strong>Read:</strong> We had to push them up some hills).  They also contained a GPS &#8220;tour guide&#8221; that told us interesting facts about the things we were seeing and constantly reminded us that we weren&#8217;t on an officially sanctioned tour and that we should immediately make a U-Turn.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Taking the outside line on the corner" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/3943293102_9658c3ddd9.jpg" alt="Taking the outside line on the corner" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Taking the outside line on the corner</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 344px"><img title="Fishermans Wharf" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3942515853_1c737daa06.jpg" alt="Fishermans Wharf" width="334" height="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Fisherman&#39;s Wharf</p></div>
<p>We spent the afternoon dashing around the city, seeing the sights, hearing the sounds, chatting up strippers on the corners, and repeatedly disobeying traffic laws.  However, the afternoon soon waned and as with most of our tour stops, it all came to an end just a bit too soon.  We had to catch our flight to NOLA and so we dropped off our straight-pimpin-whips to the fine people at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gocartours.com/sanfrancisco.html" target="_blank">Go Car Tours</a> and started to beat feet towards the BART.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Golden Gate Bridge" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3942514747_a9b6b7c9d9.jpg" alt="Golden Gate Bridge" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Golden Gate Bridge</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="China Town" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/3942516465_a0b7ed622d.jpg" alt="China Town" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">China Town</p></div>
<p>On our way, we stumbled into a very happening district of the city and grabbed some excellent food at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.giordanobros.com/" target="_blank">Giordano Bros</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.taqueriazorro.com/" target="_blank">Taqueria Zorro</a>.  After our meal, we caught the BART to SFO and we were soon on our way to New Orleans!</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="The Original BART" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2424/3942515615_fffa5bff87.jpg" alt="The Original BART" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Original BART</p></div>
<p>Additional San Francisco images available on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarkdever/sets/72157622304247765/" target="_blank">Clark&#8217;s Flickr</a>.</p>
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		<title>Austin B-Roll Video</title>
		<link>http://www.twelvehoursinacity.com/2009/09/23/austin-b-roll-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s the B-Roll footage from Austin, the full episode is gonna be wild.
           Click Here To Share!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JtxfwXhT9NM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JtxfwXhT9NM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the B-Roll footage from Austin, the full episode is gonna be wild.</p>
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		<title>Austin, TX</title>
		<link>http://www.twelvehoursinacity.com/2009/09/22/day-8-austin-tx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our one week anniversary of the start of our most epic journey began with what some might call torture. Clark woke Joe &#038; Steve with death metal. Not Cool. Vengeance will be had.
When we arrived in Austin we were greeted by Evan from Delaware North (the company that pretty much runs all the retail and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our one week anniversary of the start of our most epic journey began with what some might call torture. Clark woke Joe &#038; Steve with death metal. Not Cool. Vengeance will be had.</p>
<p>When we arrived in Austin we were greeted by Evan from Delaware North (the company that pretty much runs all the retail and food in airports nationwide) he was kind enough to take us out to lunch at The Salt Lick in the Austin airport. Food was AMAZING, try the brisket..no seriously try it, but make sure you leave room for the most loaded baked potatoe I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life because you&#8217;re going to want to sample that, trust me.</p>
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<p>After a welcome but extended stay at the Austin airport we were scheduled to meet up with our host for the night Mr. Dan Northcutt (goes by Northcutt, because he&#8217;s rad like that). Now when we first met Northcutt he emailed us telling us of his hot-dog restaurant suggesting we hit it up to grab some hot dogs and cold beers (interestingly enough that&#8217;s both their slogan and website (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hotdogscoldbeers.com">www.hotdogscoldbeers.com</a>) now when someone tells you that they own a hot dog joint you&#8217;re not really expecting much. To be honest I thought we were getting picked up by a Texas hick in a pickup with a rocking mullet. I&#8217;VE SINCE LEARNED NOT TO JUDGE A BOOK BY IT&#8217;S INTRO EMAIL.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2650/3942537769_fcbd9038c7.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Northcutt couldn&#8217;t have been more awesome if I invented him for the purpose of this project. Dude was on point. Just amazing. Picked us up took us to one of many business ventures of his, Frank. Frank isn&#8217;t just a hotdog shop. OH NO. It&#8217;s a GOURMET hog dog shop, a bar, a chill lounge (located on the 2nd floor for the nights when you just wanna sit back sip some whiskey and relax) and bodega. YEAH THAT&#8217;S RIGHT A NEW YORK CITY STYLE BOGEDA. IN A BAR. That&#8217;s how cool this guy is, he can put a bodega in his bar and get away with it and still pack the place every night.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3943314860_01287dbb75.jpg"></img></p>
<p>So we&#8217;re at Frank, chilling, trying to plan out the evening, couple beers  mixed with a couple shots of Jameson just figuring out where we can shower when in walks Taylor the man behind Austin&#8217;s Restaurant Week and coolest new mag Rare Austin (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.rareaustin.com">www.rareaustin.com</a>). Taylor tells us he has this membership to a Men&#8217;s Club called the Metropolitan Club and he&#8217;s set us up with some showers and a bar tab (people just love taking care of us it&#8217;s mind blowing). Of course we take him up on his offer and head over there immediately as a shower and beer is exactly what we were looking for at that moment.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2612/3943315504_776c0d4e1c.jpg"></img></p>
<p>When I say that Austin continually surprised me is a gross understatement of what that city actually gave back to me on a consistent basis. We walk into the &#8220;Member&#8217;s Only&#8221; room and WOW. Steam room, showers with 7 plus shower heads, just about every men&#8217;s grooming product you could imagine and oh yeah waiter service bringing us cold beers in the biggest goblets you&#8217;ve ever seen.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/3942538769_0987b28bb3.jpg"></img></p>
<p>I had to indulge in a quick (1 hour is quick right?) steam before I moved into the shower to allow the 7 different shower heads to further indulge me in extreme luxury. After the showers everyone moved on to the grooming stage of extravagance. Gold Bond, hair products, hot shave cream, the works. We were truly living the life of trust-fund playboys, just without the douchiness of being raised complete pricks..it&#8217;s what we call a true win-win.</p>
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<p>Post most-amazing-shower-in-the-world we headed into the Lounge area to charge up our gear and sip on some goblets of beer. After getting sufficiently distracted by the amazing situation we found ourselves in, Northcutt calls to tell us to get our asses back to Frank so we can get this night started (by night I mean 5 in the afternoon). So off we went.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3509/3942538099_f887815462.jpg"></img></p>
<p>When we got back to Frank, Northcutt had his whole crew waiting for us. Among them was Stuart who gave us a quick rundown on the huge growth that Austin has been experiencing. He also happens to have a SUPER hot girl friend who owns a high end cupcake shop down the street from Frank called Delish (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.delish-cupcakes.com">www.delish-cupcakes.com</a>). Yeah, we went and got our cupcake on.</p>
<p>We all walked down to La Condesa which served up some really unique and delightful apps. We had sushi on a tortilla, some mini brisket burritos and REALLY REALLY good margaritas. The tab? Just shy of $300 and covered, because we&#8217;re apparently really fun to hang out with (thanks again guys!). Apparently people in Texas eat a lot more than us folks from New York because after that we went back to Frank for some platters of their amazing hot dogs. When I say amazing I really mean knock your socks off good hot-dogs. These ain&#8217;t your run of the mill street meat dogs. I&#8217;m talking Chicago style with the greenest relish you&#8217;ve ever seen and onions so sweet you swear they were made of sugar. I mean NY Style Sausage that is so authentic you&#8217;d swear you heard a cabbie cursing in the background.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2543/3943314442_f35f513e81.jpg"></img></p>
<p>So now it was officially time to &#8220;Keep Austin Weird&#8221; (the city slogan, really could a more perfect city exist?). Our first stop was the Dizzy Rooster where they had a candle light tribute to Patrick Swazye (apparently when you bounce here you have to watch Roadhouse as a training video). After that we headed over to St. Cecilia&#8217;s to class it up a bit. While enjoying martinis and margaritas we met up with the guys from English Teeth (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.myspace.com/englishteethmusic">www.myspace.com/englishteethmusic</a>) who gave us a track to use for the Austin b-roll video. </p>
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<p>We&#8217;ll talk again in San Francisco! </p>
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		<title>Kissimmee &amp; Burlington</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 7 &#8211; Kissimmee/Burlington
We&#8217;ve been looking forward to our Orlando trip for a little while now but all of our expectations proved to be way too low. The people of the Kissimmee visitors center took such good care of us it&#8217;s literally raised the bar to a whole new level.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Day 7 &#8211; Kissimmee/Burlington</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been looking forward to our Orlando trip for a little while now but all of our expectations proved to be way too low. The people of the Kissimmee visitors center took such good care of us it&#8217;s literally raised the bar to a whole new level.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/3929487815_a03ccd5fff.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Orlando is one of our shortest stays at only 7 hours so we had to pack a lot of action into a shorter day than usual. Chris, our host, picked us up from the airport and we headed out to the Boggy Creek Airboat Ride center. Loaded the crew on to what I was calling, incorrectly as it turns out, a fan boat and took off in search of gators and cool fan controlled maneuvers on open water. Unfortunately we weren&#8217;t able to see any crocodiles but we did do some pretty cool slides and 360&#8217;s. Overall a very satisfying little adventure. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3930269686_b55791e708.jpg"></img></p>
<p>In combination with the airboat ride is a small gator after show. Normally just another tourist trap kinda event, but not today. Today they let Steve wear the gator as a hat. The problem with this is that if you push on a Gator&#8217;s stomach, they have a tendency to urinate.. This particular gator released its&#8217; bladder ALL OVER STEVE&#8217;S HEAD &#038; NECK. It was absolutely hilarious!</p>
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<p>Once Steve cleaned off as much natural Gatorade as he could, the crew headed out to the city of Kissimmee to grab some eats at the Broadway Pizza Bar. Steve, Joe &#038; Clark dug into Calzones (pretty good, don&#8217;t hold a candle to Pizza Plant Pods though) while Jeremy mowed down a sandwich and some italian wedding soup. </p>
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<p>In order to make our 6:40 pm flight to Burlington we had to be at the airport around 5. Finishing lunch at 2:00 you&#8217;d think we wouldn&#8217;t have enough time to do anything too awesome. If you thought that, <em><strong>YOU WOULD BE HORRIBLY MISTAKEN</strong></em>. This is the beginning of what might be the most epic 2 and a half hours of the trip yet. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/3929487815_a03ccd5fff.jpg"></img></p>
<p>Now we head to GATORLAND. We met up with our park guide, Mike Hileman, and the hardcore shenanigans began. First up on the VIP tour, feeding the gators. Now when someone tells you that you&#8217;re going to be feeding some alligators you assume you&#8217;ll be throwing food over a fence or something safe like that. Not here kids. Here you walk right up to them (I&#8217;m talking 3 feet max distance) and toss them some raw chicken.  <strong>AWESOME</strong>. What&#8217;s not awesome is when you&#8217;re taking a group shot 3 feet in front of about 12 huge gators and your guide screams &#8220;<em>RUN!</em>&#8221; followed by extreme laughter as you&#8217;re darting to safety. </p>
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<p>The fun is just beginning at this point. It was time to head to check out <strong>WHITE ALLIGATORS</strong>. Yeah, white ones (Don&#8217;t call them Albino, they have blue eyes) and we got to take their picture.  There are only 14 of them in the world and we had the rare change to photograph them up close and personal.  Our guide really wanted to show us his favorite gator Chester so we obliged him. You remember Chester from the news a few years ago, he ate 3 dogs in his neighborhood.  He&#8217;s about 13 feet long, 1,000 lbs. and 3,000 lbs/sq inch of dog eating, jaw crushing ability. It was super intense.</p>
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<p>When someone turns to you and asks &#8220;Hey, would you like to wrestle an alligator?&#8221; The only answer that comes to mind is &#8220;Yes!&#8221;. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gatorland.com/" target="_blank" title="Gatorland Website">Gatorland</a> has a twice daily gator wrestling show (that&#8217;s very funny, exciting and an overall great time) where real professionals handle these million year old killing machines. When the show was over and the spectators left <u>our</u> show began. We went into the sandy cage and approached our beast. I was first up. &#8220;Just climb on his back and put your hands on his neck&#8221; our guide explained. I complied. Then he spoke words that I&#8217;ll never really forget. &#8220;Ok now don&#8217;t lose&#8221; at that point he yells at the gator and starts hitting him in the tail, you know&#8211; to get him good and pissed off. I&#8217;m struggling trying to contain the beast as it&#8217;s slowly dragging me to the killing waters where 10 of his friends waited to dine on my Jameson marinated flesh. The order came out &#8220;Alright, jump off and pull him back by the tail.&#8221; I tried and after really setting my footing was able to drag the animal back several feet. This story repeated itself for Jeremy, Steve, and  Clark. It was definitely a once in a lifetime experience.</p>
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<p>Just when we thought we were about to leave, they pulled us back in for the Gator Jump show. During this show they dangle meat above the gator pool and the gators jump out several feet to grab their grub. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2514/3929473103_1b25172f03.jpg"></img></p>
<p>As 4:45 rolled around we decided it was time to head to the airport as we had a 5:00pm TV interview to record. </p>
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		<title>Washington DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe and Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 6 &#8211; Washington DC
After a great saturday night in South Beach it was time to visit our nation&#8217;s capitol; Washington DC. We had a nice cushion in our flight schedule so we were able to get some additional sleep at the Ft. Lauderdale airport.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Day 6 &#8211; Washington DC</p>
<p>After a great saturday night in South Beach it was time to visit our nation&#8217;s capitol; Washington DC. We had a nice cushion in our flight schedule so we were able to get some additional sleep at the Ft. Lauderdale airport.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Our Flight Crew - Ronalee I., Jim M., and Lauren H." src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3442/3929205860_a1d2b332ce.jpg" alt="Our Flight Crew - Ronalee I., Jim M., and Lauren H." width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Our Flight Crew - Ronalee I., Jim M., and Lauren H.</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Jawa Transport at Dulles" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/3928422049_9ffcbecfd8.jpg" alt="Jawa Transport at Dulles" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Jawa Transport at Dulles</p></div>
<p>Once we landed in DC it was time to ride in the <strong>Jawa Transports</strong> at Dulles and meet up with our host for the day; Tyler, who is one of Clark&#8217;s friends from High School.   He&#8217;s an active member in Virginia&#8217;s Democratic party&#8211; When in Rome do as the Romans; we arrived at Blue Ridge Arsenal around 5pm and rented a glock and a couple hundred rounds of ammo. This was Joe &amp; Steve&#8217;s first time ever firing a handgun. Steve had a good time, Joe claims to have been unimpressed (So we omitted pictures of him so as not to hinder his future political career).</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 343px"><img title="Tyler provides Range Safety Instruction" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2573/3929205724_f0f2e40a05.jpg" alt="Tyler provides Range Safety Instruction" width="333" height="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tyler provides Range Safety Instruction</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 344px"><img title="Steve loads his clip" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3929205328_c32f14be1e.jpg" alt="Steve loads his clip" width="334" height="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Steve loads his clip</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 344px"><img title="Lock and Load" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2629/3929205256_fed3880795.jpg" alt="Lock and Load" width="334" height="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lock and Load</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Clark empties 10 rounds into a 3 grouping (note the ejecting shell)." src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/3929205640_d27a469dd0.jpg" alt="Clark empties 10 rounds into a 3 grouping." width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Clark empties 10 rounds into a 3&quot; grouping.</p></div>
<p>It was about time to head into DC proper and get an up-close look at some of our country&#8217;s historic buildings. By the time we got into the city we realized we were starving so we stopped at the Capitol Lounge for some great food. Joe had a pizza, Clark grabbed some fish &amp; chips while both Jeremy and Steve picked up a couple of steak sandwiches.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Capitol Building with protestors in foreground" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/3928420949_8f659b3b6d.jpg" alt="Capitol Building with protestors in foreground" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Capitol Building with protestors in foreground</p></div>
<p>During our post-food stroll around the capitol building area we got a real treat, a free comedy show. It all started when we found a deposit of protest signs in a refuse bin (from the Tea Baggers&#8230; err Partiers).  We hold a bit of a grudge, we were supposed to have a Special tour of the Capitol Building, but it was canceled due to the Demonstrations going on during our visit.   It only got better from that point when we stumbled upon some live entertainment. It was an unnamed band with a preaching front man. Now I&#8217;m all for some good free speech and everyone&#8217;s right to protest but this was too inaccurate and funny to respect. You know the drill &#8220;death panels&#8221;, &#8220;tax payer funded abortion&#8221; it was a top 40 version of right wing nut job lies. Really good stuff and we enjoyed doing a little Heckling until the Capitol Police asked us to move along.</p>
<p>After laughing at the crazies our group split up, Clark and Adia toured Washington on foot, while everyone else went to Georgetown for a bit of a bar crawl. We wondered in and out of several fine establishments eventually ending up at<em><strong> Rhino&#8217;s Bar</strong></em> for $8 pitchers and Sunday night football.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="The Washington Monument as viewed from the Capitol" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2672/3929204682_d8d9b6ba9d.jpg" alt="The Washington Monument as viewed from the Capitol" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Washington Monument as viewed from the Capitol</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Capitol Building" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2646/3928420901_83c67734f1.jpg" alt="Capitol Building" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Capitol Building</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 344px"><img title="Washington Monument (Closer Up)" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/3929204196_c459d6ac5a.jpg" alt="Washington Monument (Closer Up)" width="334" height="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Washington Monument (Closer Up)</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="The White House" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2424/3929203916_ba3b7c527d.jpg" alt="The White House" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The White House</p></div>
<p>A couple pitchers later we headed back into Fairfax, VA to <em><strong>Bridges</strong></em>. Now this was truly a one of a kind bar. Bridges really packs a punch on multiple levels. There were frat boys, sorority girls, pool tables, poker tournaments, lawn games, couches, lay-z-boys and a dance floor. It was mindblowingly lame and incredibly awesome simultaneously.</p>
<p>Last call is 1:30 in VA and that&#8217;s when we headed home. A great night in DC/Georgetown &amp; Fairfax.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re heading to Orlando tomorrow to<em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> WRESTLE ALLIGATORS</strong></span></em>!  Stay tuned for some great behind the scene&#8217;s footage from that adventure.</p>
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