Call It In The Air

I will always accept an opportunity to visit my hometown of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.

This was just a quick weekend trip. We went to a beautiful wedding on the beach, met with old friends, ate my favorite hot wings in the world from the Airport Inn Restaurant (Now known as Seto’s Wok & Grill), and saw some wildlife along the way (pics above). Though it’s hard to make the drive to Hardy without seeing at least one bear.

My next trip back there will hopefully be in the late spring. I would like to go for a week or so and do some hiking/camping along the west coast. If you’ve never been to a beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island I definitely recommend putting it on your to-do list right now…before it’s all under water.

Me and Christa made a quick trip to LA the last weekend of September to check out Epicenter 2010.

Epicenter’s lineup consisted of Blink 182, Eminem, KISS, Rise Against, Bush, 30 Seconds to Mars, Papa Roach, Bad Religion, Big Boi, Against Me!, Crash Kings, A Day To Remember, The Academy Is, House of Pain, DMX, and more more more……

Quite the lineup for someone who grew up in the 90’s like myself.

The pictures above are literally all the pictures I took. The crowds were too crazy and the music was too good to be busy taking pictures :)

This was also the weekend of SoCal’s heatwave. I have never experienced heat like that. The temperature got up to 107 F…I don’t know what that is in Celsius, but it was damn hot. The $12 I spent on a bottle mister may have been one of my wisest investments to date.

The trip back was fun as our flight got delayed 6 hours. Alaska Airlines brought in In & Out Burgers for everyone and Christa and I got in many furious rounds of Zombie Dice…rawr.

So back in September I won a ticket to PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) in Seattle from Jules @ www.knittedsteel.net (as well as a fantastic ‘knitted steel’ footbag and lanyard)

Turns out it’s an amazing, magical event. Thousands of gamers in one location equals a good time apparently…who knew.

Testing new games, attending amazing panels, gaming tournaments, sleeping in my car…it was such a good time that PAX 2011 will definitely be a planned “vacation”.