Several weeks back I attended my second Comic-Con. Last year I didn’t spend any time in Hall H, so I never got an appreciation for how big it is or how early one needs to get in line to ensure a seat inside. This year I found myself waking up at 4:30 one morning and […]
Two weeks ago I got to meet Conan O’Brien and wander around Warner Bros. Studio 15, where he tapes his show. A little backstory first: Chrystie’s mom, Gloria, is a ghost hunter. She has been doing it for over 20 years, long before it was popularized by Ghost Adventures and other TV shows. Around Halloween
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At the risk of sounding repetitive, Saturday we got up early again to get in line to the convention hall where we again hustled to the Ballroom 20 line to wait an hour or two to see panels. The first panel we saw was for Chuck, a show I’ve never really been interested in so
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Day two began just like day one, waking up before dawn. We hopped in the convention line super early, where we got herded into the hall and quickly walked to get in the Ballroom 20 line. From there we sat on our butts for an hour and watched the line stretch over half a mile…literally.
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A few weeks ago the king of conventions, Comic-Con, was held in San Diego. The 5-day experience that engulfs downtown San Diego has something for everyone: exclusive premieres and first-looks for the “I saw it before anyone else” braggarts star-studded panels for those want to hear their favorite stars banter, and ask questions professional panels
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Two weekends ago Chrystie and I flew into Boston to visit my cousin and attend PAX East, our third Penny Arcade Expo and first one on the east coast. Visiting my cousin was great, the gaming convention, unfortunately, was another story. Upon arriving to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, the lobby was absolute chaos
(Continued from Part 1.) The next morning I woke up sore and hot with what I was sure was a cold from another sub-freezing night. With as much excitement as we could muster, Chrystie and I initially wanted to take the very scenic 39-mile drive to Tuolumne Meadows and do some hiking. To our utter
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Last Saturday, Chrystie and I drove to Yosemite for a 4-day camping trip. Reservations for camping spots in Yosemite start in January and go quickly with it being the third most visited national park, surprisingly beating out Yellowstone. We stayed in the Hodgdon Meadow campground, less than a mile from the Highway-120 entrance to Yosemite,
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Last weekend, Chrystie and I went to Napa for one day of wine tasting and one day of volunteering at the Tour de Cure in Yountville. The Tour is a benefit race held by the American Diabetes Association and raises money for diabetes research. We went last year and enjoyed ourselves so much, we decided