Pay Up!!!

Soundtrack: Junior MAFIA-Get Money



Brent has put in a substantial amount of money to make this trip happen. He has already had to pay for the boat in full ($2000.88) and it's time to help him out and pay for our respective shares.

Instead of everyone sending him a check or trying to collect all the money at Lake Powell and risk all of it being sent to Davey Jones Locker I figured it'd be best to do things the 2010 way and setup a Paypal account for the trip.

Here is how it will work. You click Paul Rohr's picture below. It'll take you to a place where you can pay with an existing paypal account OR with a credit card. It doesn't matter which you pick. We are all in our mid twenties. I know We are all we are all broke. BUT we all have credit cards. Nothing like financing fun.

Anyway Once you get to the payment page you'll note that the amount is for $257.00. This is based off 8 people coming. I hope (and expect) more will want to come and if this is the case the first $2000 dollars goes to Brent for the boat with an additional money to be put on an official "Mancation 2010 Debit Card" (thanks to Paypal) and used to buy communal food, booze, fuel and pay a stripper to come with us.

So... CLICK PAUL ROHR'S HEAD! PAY UP!!

Soundtrack: Steve Winwood-Call on me (Eric Prydz remix)

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Fourty-eight days or about 1152 hours until the opening of Mancation 2010. Although it may be rapidly approaching there is still time for everyone to start GTL-ing so they are ready. Confused as to what GTL is? Check out these guys for the result.

Since we are all recovering from a long, cold winter full of sweatpants, whiskey and hoodies I figured we could all use some gym advice. Take a look:



Am I the only one who feels it’s okay to watch these videos while drinking beer on the couch? This girl is unreal. I for one have watched at least 23 of her fitness videos...and I’m feeling exhausted.

I spoke to the manager at liquor Barn here in GJ. He said he could offer us a volume discount on beer if we buy in enough volume...around a 1/2 pallet of beer. Sounds like a great fucking idea to me. (and they load it into a pickup truck with a fork lift. Awesome.)

On to more important things, Brent has put a lien on his car so we can go on this trip. Seriously. He’s into this thing for somewhere over 2k so it’s time for everyone to book their flights and get this show on the road. Within the next two weeks we need a firm count of people. Just come. (that’s what she said) It’ll be fun.


Finally, I leave you with a (real) quote from our NFL buddy Ben Rothlisberger-


“I’m not down to fuck (DTF) but I like to fuck girls” (click for the whole story...seriously, it's pretty fucking funny...)

The Boat...

Soundtrack:



It's time we book a boat. Seems easy enough...just call up a marina in Powell and rent something we can afford. Surely there will be enough boats to rent. Wrong. ARAMARK is the only company that rents boats at Powell. They are flat booked. Don't fret. I semi-planned on this happening.

What we'll do instead (and what most do) is buy a share of a houseboat via craigslist or some other classifieds. The cost will be the same, we get the boat for an entire week (not that that matters) and in the following years, if anybody wants to revisit Powell, we'll have our week already purchased (plus more in the fall/spring).

The downside is I'll have to cover the maintenance costs in the following years (1500ish/year) or sell the share. Selling the share is harder than it sounds but eating 1500/year I'm willing to do for this trip.

With all that said, it's time to start scouring craigslist and KSL.com for a share. A couple of options.

Boat 1
This seems like a real winner. We all love writing on cardboard (show us your tits!) and I'm sure one of us will get a tatoo of some sort to be a part of this "gang". Not to mention Paul loves gay shit so I'm pretty sure this is a great fit.

Boat 2




This is an ad for FULL ownership of a boat. That's right, we'd own the whole thing for 10k. I say we offer 5k for this boat and see what happens. How can this possibly be a bad idea? Sure the boat is tiny as shit and was built before most of us were born but hell, it's got a slide and we can always burn it to the ground (water?) as we leave. Epic. I vote we do this.

So...which one? Neither? Really? I thought I'd have you all at "gay shit". Bummer.

As temps go up and people start to plan their summers more of these weeks start to pop up so I'll keep my eyes on craigslist and KSL.com. Feel free to make any suggestions and if I find something (unless you all want to try to buy the tiny boat...seriously!!!) I'll post it up.

We'll lock something up soon.

Thoughts?

Costco and Balls

Soundtrack: Jimmy Buffet Marg-ville


So I must have been high. 1000 dollars for 4 days of food amongst 10 people is pretty asinine...I blame Kestrel.

Just to be clear, here is what 1000 dollars will buy us at the local Costco.

1)30lbs of Kobe Style Beef

2)400lbs of ground beef

3)1200 bags of cornuts

4)350lbs of flour

5)2000 bagels

Anyway, even though my budget was way high, I'm still not sure the best way to go about the food situation. Trying to buy all the food for 10+ (more like 14) people all at once is going to end poorly. I think the best option is for Loren and myself go pick up all food for the 3 dinnersahead of time (we'll decide what later) in addition to all the other shit everyone is going to need (mustard, salt/pepper, paper towel etc)

From there, it'd probably make sense if everyone shopped in smaller teams to cover lunch, breakfast and snacks before we take off for the lake on Thursday. This way everyone has shit they like and we aren't over/under buying a shit ton.

750/10 is 75 beers each. Divide that by 3 nights and that is 25 beers a person per night/day. Seriously, I'm half way worried about getting 750+ (if more people come) beers down there.

Finally, the main purpose of this post was because golf season is RIGHT around the corner. I want to make sure everyone starts stealing range balls at a furious pace. If we play "Lake Powell Golf" we'll go through a shit ton of range balls. I am guessing I'll go through 200 just myself. Start stocking up now...seriously.

2010 Details

Welcome to the 2010 Mancation update Blog. I created this because Facebook sucks...(and because Facebook is blocked at work.)

Place: Lake Powell

Soundtrack: Anything with T-Pain and/or Maino

Here are some early details regarding where to fly into, where we are launching from, what time you should try and get to Powell and all sorts of other details.

First off, I'm pretty stoked to see everyone jump on board the change in location. I think everyone will agree that as much fun as Vegas is, you feel so "played" when you leave (amongst other things)....Not to mention we have all done Vegas (or Vegas has done us...either way) enough times that it has lost it's newness, it's adventure...its lust.

(This has nothing to do with my "3000 dollar fadora" from last time. I swear.)

Location

Lake Powell is huge at over 180 miles long. There are multiple launch points on the lake. To minimize driving, we are launching out of BULLFROG BAY. It is the furthest launch point to the East. Our launch point is on this map as "point A"

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***Important*** Everyone NEEDS to be to Bullfrog within 2 hours of sunset on Thursday (at the latest). We cannot be driving around on the lake after dark.

Flight Information:

You can fly into Salt Lake City (6-7 hours away), Denver (7 hours) or Grand Junction (3 hours). I think most people are going to fly into Denver and then carpool with Paul, Kyle etc out to Junction on Weds night or Thursday morning. It is about 4 hours from Denver to Grand Junction. If you like, you are more than welcome to fly into Grand Junction early and stay with me. However, it is often more expensive and when you account for layovers and whatnot, faster to just fly into Denver and drive. If you have your pilots license, there is an airstrip close by to where we launch...but I believe this only applies to one of us (BRENT!) There will be additional vehicles leaving out of GJ on Thursday (myself, Loren and others)

Boat Details

The boat will be around 3000 dollars for all 3 nights/4 days. I'm still working out the details of this. If we have 10 people, that'll boil down to 300 dollars a person plus fuel. We will not be driving this boat all that much (drive to a cove and park it) so fuel should be pretty cheap. I wont know for sure this figure until I find a boat.

Loren Williams is a buddy of mine from the GJ area. He will be joining us and has a ton of knowledge of the Powell area. He is bringing his own boat (new!) which we will be using to party/ski/wakeboard/fish and generally have fun with. Due to this, Loren will not be included in paying for the houseboat (if you drop 40k+ on a boat we are using, you are exempt). In addition to this, I am trying to convince my buddies Kestrel and Bob to accompany us on this trip who also have VERY nice boats. They too will not be paying for the houseboat (if they come...which I'm thinking they will). I hope everyone is okay with this but I feel it is only right that if we are using their boats, they do not pay for the houseboat portion of this trip.

Food/Drink

There are no bars at Powell. We are essentially throwing a giant lake party for a few days. This means we've got to bring the bar to the lake...the good part about this is buying booze at an l-store is much cheaper than a bar, the bad is we've got to buy it all ahead of time. I think a budget of 600 dollars should buy us all the booze we need for 4 days/3 nights. this comes down to about 60 bucks a person...which wouldn't even buy a round of drinks for you and 4 buddies in Vegas...We will put together a list and everyone can help decide what/how much to buy. The details of this list will be put together at a much later date. In any case, guess how much you'll drink...then double it...or in Brent, Steve and Pat's case, triple it.

We are going to keep food pretty simple. If anybody has any requests or ideas throw them out there ahead of time. The boat will have a full kitchen and grill. We will probably divide into 3 different groups...each group is required to cook something each night...but we will worry about a menu later. Overall, I'm thinking a total of 1000 dollars in food is going to be more than enough. (100 bucks each) but I'm still not sure the best way to do this since everyone eats different amounts. Ideas? I'd like to keep dinner as something we all cook/eat together but maybe it'd be easier some other way.

Actvities

There is a ton to do in Lake Powell during the day. Quote Point Break, wakeboard, wakesurf, water ski, cliff dive/jump, party and act like a rapper on a boat. There are cool hikes to go on and canyons to check out...if anybody has any requests, now would be a good time to throw them out.

Hopefully we'll find other boats and team up for some bigger parties...but at the end of the day it'll be fun no matter what so long as all you people are coming.

Oh...and one Point Break clip...just for Kyle and myself!!