I stared down into the shot glass I emptied in my mouth. I was in a neon blue bomb shelter club surrounded by assholes with terrible haircuts and way too much moisturizer on their faces. I could feel the vomit creeping up my esophagus. Sambuca, although delicious, had just put […]
Tag: Aspen
Ending the Vision Quest and Approaching the New Year
I’m on a bus in Aspen, Colorado and it’s about 28 hours until 2013 starts. If you’re just joining the story, you should click here and here to get some background on why I’m on the bus and the remarkable journey I took to get to this point. Like a […]
Hot Tubs, Gummy Bears and Fireballs in Aspen – Part Two
Last week’s post ended with me in the middle of Aspen, Colorado making the most of a New Year’s Eve vacation in a city I’m unfamiliar with and may be prejudice against. We already spent one evening at a fine restaurant, overslept for snowboarding, and were now digging into some […]
Aspen: Not just for the Hollywood elite – Part One
I posted once about my distaste for high-end clubs and rubbing elbows with the social elite. I’ll re-emphasize: I would rather sit in a dive bar talking to a guy speaking indecipherable gibberish, fearing for my life than go to a club and fist pump with a bunch of goofy-haired, […]