Affiliate Summit East - 10/10

August 13th, 2008 by Jon Waraas

Alright lets get right into this shiz, On Saturday I had a 2 1/2 hour drive from Idaho Falls, Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utard. I then left from SLC to Las Vegas where I had a connecting flight to Boston, Massachusetts. Let me remind you that I had to get caught up on a ton of shit before I left so I woke up at 3:00 am on Saturday morning. Anywho, the flight was 5 hours long, and I probably only got about 3 hours of sleep on that flight to Boston, and at this point I would like to add that I will be taking JetBlue from now on, they are awesome.

So I get to Boston at around 8 am on Sunday morning. With only 3 hours of sleep that night. I waited for my lazy fucking friends to wake up so we could go to the summit and the meet market thingy. At the meet marked I met a TON of people from the interwebs, it was really great putting all those faces behind the names. John Chow, seocracy, AoJon, Wes, and the list goes on and on.

Boston at dusk:

After the meet market Advaliant treated us to a great dinner at KO Prime, which I will be talking about later. After that and few buddies and me got smashed and played some poker.

Then, after 6 hours of sleep we get our Monday started off right with some sick ass shit food from Dunkin Donuts. After that we head over to the expo to talk to our favorite affiliate companies and meet some new people. At the summit I guess that I probably made about 5-10 NEW contacts at which I will be working with over the next little while. But I probably met at least 40 plus people all together at the conference.

Anyways, later that day we headed over to go fishing with our buddy Lazar. Our fucking fishing trip got canceled so we decided to do snagging off the bridge. For those of you that don’t know what snagging is, its where you cast into the water then jerk up and hope to snag a fish. I’m not sure if its legal or not. But anyways, none of us have licenses and we certainly don’t have a Massachusetts licenses. So we cast off the bridge a few times, then the cops show up and start asking for people’s licenses. Our buddy lazar starts walking over to his truck and the cops ask him to come over there, he takes off running down the street, gets into his truck, turns his highbeams on, and then gets out of there. We take off walking down the street and meet up with him later. Thats our running away from the cops story

Chinatown:

So after our awesome fishing trip we head over to the Bunker Hill monument. Its this monument they made on top of bunker hill that looks like the Washington monument. Its pretty big, but when we went up it we found out it was pretty huge. The thing has like 400 stairs. Thats a ton of stairs, all 3 of us that went up where out of breath by the time we got up. My calf’s are still sore, but it was worth it.

Bunker Hill:

Top Of Bunker Hill:

After that we headed back and just chilled in the hotel room. Then on Tuesday I headed home, leaving from Boston to NYC, then from there to Salt Lake City. Then drive 2 1/2 hours back home. It was a fun time. And I’m glad I got to go.

I also got a few more blog posts about the summit still coming, I will post those later.

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