Nerdy Adventures in Halifax: Day 1 Nerding it up in Sydney is always good fun, but why do that when you can couple it with the adventure of a road trip? That was the very question we asked ourselves in the plotting of this, our greatest adventure to date! We would go to the big city - Halifax - all crammed into one car, and nerd that town to death. Cuz we are F’n metal. The trip began on Friday, August 5th at 2pm, and the participants were ready to get to it!

And there we all are, in order of appearance, and from left to right: Handsome Dan (Clayton), Guttenberg (James F.W.), Selleck (Matty), Harrison Ford (Andrew), and the newest member to the excursion, Cabumbo (Jonjon). Why did we have those names at all, let alone written on our shirts? Long, pointless story. If ya really wanna know, see Clayton’s forum. The important thing is, that I got Guttenberg’d. Frig.

And this is the vehicle of our mayhem! Clayton’s dad’s VolksWagon. Ready for trouble at any point, etc. Unless yer a big pointy rock in the middle of the friggin’ highway. It’s not ready for that trouble at all.

Very early on, our trip was almost ruined by this guy. See, our plan was to get to Halifax in about 25 minutes, cuz Handsome Dan would be driving at a million. However, this guy totally threw that plan out his dilapidated window by going way less than that. He’s not metal at all.

Our first stop of the day was just past the causeway, as snacks/beverages were required. It’s not much of a story, but this picture does show off our fancy matching shirts that Selleck made with our trip-names on them. He’s quite the little craft... weasel. Yes.

It was then straight on to Halifax. Well, actually the general area, as we first stopped at the MicMac Mall for a bit. Mostly for the Chapters I believe. Chapters is now one of my new favorite places. Unfortunately, though it took up the bulk of the trip, I have little to no shopping/searching for neat/lame stuff pics. Weird, eh?

After the stop in Dartmouth, we headed for Bayer’s Lake - home of the awesome Montana’s restaurant (which is apparently a ‘must stop’ for the trip... I was unaware until we got there, but apparently I had never really lived before). Selleck struck a pose in front of the place, just to add that overall sense of adventure to the whole thing.

Seeing the chance for glory/posing escaping them, everyone decided to join in on the posing outside the restaurant. Good work boys. Also, it lets you all know exactly how adventuresome we were at this point. We coulda totally wrassled a lion or two. Each! Bam!

Montana’s lobby is either a place of very powerful magic, or very unpowerful gravity.

In Montana's, after we waited a bit for our table, the guy that brought us to it (I think he was the Manager, but I could be wrong) asked us if we were on a pub-crawl, based on our poorly-made, yet amusing shirts with our names on them. Selleck, jumping to answer quickly said no, but that we were members of a gang. The guy said we were pretty intimidating, and while he sounded sarcastic, I know he was pretty scared.

It’s DAVE! The original Dave! No nerdy trip could be had without involving Halifax’s favorite resident nerd (being Dave, if you didn’t guess). Selleck also made him a shirt, though I’m pretty sure that he has several shirts of his own that look pretty much identical. Also, Dave’s apartment building is pure white inside... creepy.

The nerding got pumped way the frig up at this point, as it was time to make/finish our characters for the epic-level D&D game that we were planning to play. I pretty much had mine done before we left, so it mostly involved a lot of sitting/reading for me. We also got a weird email from some person at CBC looking for Jedi Mind Trick music. Apparently we were recommended. Weird.

Despite the fact that Handsome Dan had driven for about 6+ hours or so that day, it seems that he just didnt’ have enough. He just had to play GT4, which was pretty much just a driving- simulator with the first car he picked. I think his top speed was 45mph. Not too bad on the turns though.

We went to our motel, simple to book-in earlier, so we didn’t actually go in. We got a room with 2 beds, and the rest would be sleeping on the floor. Not too bad a deal, really. Only having to pay for 2 people while splitting it 5 ways is fairly cheap. However, when we got back, it turns out that they only gave us one double bed. Those bastards who we were trying to pull a fast one on totally pulled a fast one on us. As you can see above, everyone was kinda sad about the whole thing. Except Cabumbo, who had just watched the “Cabumbo” bit on Black Books and was therefore finally happy with his trip-name.

As you can see, this only added to our uncomfortable sleeping conditions. Having no pillows, I had to use a shoe and my own tears to sleep on. Cabumbo, who fought tooth and nail - and won - for his blanket was still happy despite the fact that he had to sleep in a drawer. Oddly, none of that actually happened, and the sleeping conditions weren’t too bad... cept I had to share the bed with Harrison. Sigh.

And that’s about it for day 1. Wow! That was just Day 1?! I bet you can’t wait til something actually interesting happens, huh? Well, yer gonna be waiting a long time, chump. Sorry. Perhaps I’ll make up some more interesting lies to keep you reading. Stay tuned for Days 2 and 3 at some point in the future. Maybe there will be jet-packs by then! Sweet.