The Gist List #1

18 Oct

Alright, here is the thing; we have been so active on the road it has become quite the challenge to choose what I will write about from day to day. So I’m going to make a deal with myself right here and right now. Instead of writing about a dozen things that happened in the last week or so, I’m going to create something I like to call a “gist list”. A gist list is something I just made up that will give a one line summary of the happenings that I have either experienced or learned about this week. Then I will go a little more into depth with the item on the list.

You ready? I am. Ok let’s go!

Amon’s Get the Gist List Number One

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  • I got to sit in a functional replica of a NASCAR at Richard Petty’s Driving Experience out in Daytona.

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  • Took a funny picture with Sunshine, Paco, The Skipper, and Wipe Out with some old-school wax lips at a Cracker Barrel.
  • Worked out for a half hour (or twenty-two minutes, if you want to be all truthful about it).
  • Filmed a nature tour at The Amelia Island Plantation and got to eat a plant that tasted like a grasshopper had spit in my mouth.

    • Mr. Focus Golf Lesson

  • Also at The Amelia Island Plantation, I filmed their golf courses and I got a lesson on how to correctly swing a golf club.

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  • Sunshine and I found a remarkable candy shop called The Snack Shack.
  • It’s a week later and I am still eating the candy I bought from the Snack Shack as I write this; it’s a pretty heavy bag.

    • Delicious dessert

  • Ate some killer cheesecake at Marché Burette on the Amelia Island Plantation.

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  • Filmed St. Augustine up high from a helicopter and down low from a horse carriage.

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  • Co-created a band called The Toefros, leaked our music to the i-net, and created our band site in less than 2 hours total over the course a few days.
  • Thought I won $10,000 with a fake scratch-off lottery ticket (thanks Paco, ya shmuck).

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  • Learned that banana spiders or golden silk spider (technically called Nephila clavipes) are pretty much harmless, yet they still give me the hee-bee-jee-bees.
  • Filmed the Sebring International Raceway standing in the front seat of drop-top Audi TT Quattro pace car doing speeds faster than I can mention without getting someone into hot water.
  • Entered a photography contest competing with Sunshine, Paco, and the Skipper.

    • I know it’s a short list but I could have easily written about 4 or 5 katrillion characters about each one. Since I know that you are not in the running to read that many characters, I will continue in the manner in which I agreed with myself earlier and just cover the latter of the one line summaries.

    The Photograph Contest

    Not too long ago, it dawned on me that the crew has access to a pretty nifty camera. The camera is Canon EOS 5D and it takes some rather incredible pictures. I thought it would simply just be a shame not to pick up my photography skills before, during, and after the shoots.

    While I was taking a picture of a pretty pink flower, someone mentioned that we should have a competition. Immediately, Paco, Sunshine and I began brainstorming about the rules and prizes. Within a matter of minutes we had it all laid out: we were going to submit three of our best photos to Ben and the winner got an extra two-hundred calories added to their diet. We took so many pictures between the four of us that I decided to set up a Flickr account. You can check that out here: The Crew’s Pro Flickr Account

    Till Next Time

    Amon Focus

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