James Richard Lane blog

Hello readers!!! I have had a crazy month, seriously wow. It's been nuts. I managed to lose my new job, girlfriend, and apartment within a week and yet make a killer come back and get two out of the three back which is nice. This doesn't need to be detailed really. I'm just happy to have some of the normal(ness) back in my life. The great news section is I have officially made it to two new states in America making my goal come closer to all 50. I've now been to 36 states! Wooo, and here is the story... I took a last minute trip to Boston, Kittery (Maine), Exeter (New Hampshire), Plymouth (MA), and Providence (Rhode Island). It was awesome! My friend Mike just bought a car and he wanted to visit some LA friends so we left Baltimore Thursday (11/13/14) as soon as I got out of class and hit the road. We drove through NYC. We stopped in Providence, RI for fast food Arby's dinner. We finally made it up to Plymouth and hung out with Mike's friend Bobby. We ...

Da News: Transmodern Festival Transmodern is one of the most incredible/amazing art and visual movement you can attend in Maryland. It's a week long full of art and different varieties of expression through galleries, warehouses, etc. It was a 7 day long event. My girlfriend and I attended it the first night which was a workshop on parade making, and music then we all dressed as the weirdest things imaginable with anywhere from 50-100 people walking down the streets of Baltimore. We made it to a gallery and watched some performance art. We attended the last day which was under a Rite Aid, in a rented out Police Department garage and it was the most insane shit ever. You get on an elevator and go down as soon as you get off there is a boy naked and sweating repeating himself that "You haven't lived till you experience life after the sun". Followed by that you walk in and the walls are made of see through curtains and you see a girl singing about Hell...

(In this blog. I make my goal come a little bit closer by stepping foot into 2 new states I have never been to which were New Hampshire, and Vermont. This now has brought me up to 34 states in America . My goal is to step foot in all 50 states by the age of 30 . I am currently 24 ) I took a huge last minute road trip recently from Baltimore to Burlington, Vermont. This trip would have my girlfriend and I visit many other places during this trip including Montreal, Que'bec, Canada. The meaning of this trip was to visit and stay with a friends who just moved up to VT. We stopped in so many states on our way up such as PA, DE, NJ, NY, we stayed in Bridgeport, CT for the night with one Kim's Peace Corp friends. We passed the WWE head quarters on our way up which unleashed the nerd inside of me! We continued and made it to her friends house K. She literally just moved into her new house that day. It was huge with nothing in it except her amazing golde...

The Price Is Right did a rerun of my episode today August 18th, 2014 I am back from San Francisco! It was an incredible trip. My trip took place August 7th and I came back August 13th. I took it with one of my best friends I've known since second grade, Adam Booz. We did so much in less then a week, and I have HUGE story to tell down below about it all. Starting off I should say the travel adviser for this trip screwed a few things up. The dates got confused. I was booked for the wrong day and had a lot of things I had to do myself to make sure my flight dates were the same as my hotel dates because trust me they weren't before I called and checked. I choose the dates of my trip to be August 7th-13th .  I choose these dates because this is when Outside Lands Music Festival was happening, unfortunately by the time the travel adviser confirmed he could give me these dates the tickets to the festival were already sold out, but it was completely fine! I got to watch and li...

This year I won some prizes on The Price Is  Right . One of the major things I won was a trip to Lake Tahoe Nevada/California boarder line. My hotel was literally on the state line! I also won $400 worth of golf, and a rental car which is a big part of this story. This is also the first time I have ever been on a plane. We woke up at 6 am, and got on the plane at 7:54 am. I have never been on a plane, and this was a really incredible experience for me as for I want to do world traveling my whole life but have never wanted to really do it by plane, but now I see plane's aren't bad at all and I actually really enjoyed the ride. We had a layover in Salt Lake City, Utah. That was my first time ever in UT . I got to walk around the airport a bit and see all the mountains outside. It was gorgeous. We finally arrived in Reno, Nevada which was also my first time ever in NV . We took a 1 hour shuttle to our hotel in South Lake Tahoe... I stayed at the Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel, with o...