| 2008 Drive to Wellsboro |
The Pre-Trip Liver Prime was held at a secret location this year. |
Vince "Don Vito" Margera supports his nephew Bam Margera for President in 2008. |
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The owner/bartender will turn 100 in May of 2008! He is the oldest owner/bartender on the planet! |
Craig "Unibomber" Hobdell is plotting his next move... |
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Chuck "Nipples" Carter, Paul "Sheep Shagger" Hegarty, John "Short Truck" Bielicki, Bob "Papa Duke" Robinson, Craig "Unibomber" Hobdell and Scott "Gator Boy" Zehner lead the trip northward and stopped at the Drunken Monkey Tavern in Ashland, PA to check on our dollar (Taped to the wall 2 years ago) and lubricate our livers before heading to the coal mines. Yeeehaaaa! |
Scott "Gator Boy" Zehner's office at the Drunken Monkey Tavern in Ashland, PA. All of the essentials are here!
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Is there a line that Bob "Papa Duke" Robinson will not cross? Doubt it! |
Scott "Gator Boy" Zehner and Paul "Sheep Shagger" Hegarty put on jackets prior to entering the Frontier Coal Mine in Ashland, PA. It is 52 degrees in there year round! Since they were rookies on the 2008 trip, I wonder if they were having thoughts that they were about to be punked somehow? Didn't happen, but it is the ONLY time either one of them had on a "Serious Face" for the entire trip!
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Seriously, do you think we would try to stand up on this ride? We went 1700 feet into Mahoney Mountain. Claustrophobics need not apply. This must be exactly the way Oprah's proctologist feels? YIKES!
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Scott's "Serious Face" is completely gone once the Yuenglings start lubing his bloodstream. Ahhh.....
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What the heck did Oprah eat yesterday? GADZOOKS! |
Our tour guide was a major miner! |
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The box on the left is a payphone in case you survive both a cave in and the doofy Operator that won't let you call for help until you've deposit 25 cents. |
This area is about 3 x 1 feet in size. It is where the coal was mined from between two rock layers that lay at a 45 degree angle. Our guide said being a miner is the "Best job in the world". He doesn't get enough oxygen, I don't think. |
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Oprah WILL eat ANYTHING, won't she? |
ASS.MAN? |
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Talking about Shaft! He's a bad mother fu..... |
The angle of dangle when factored with the coal in the hole will fill a car.... We need a bar! |
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Somebody needs to seriously consider what they wish for here! This hole goes down several hundred feet to another series of tunnels below. During normal mining this hole in the floor would not be covered with a grate. I'll bet many miners wished they hadn't fallen into it on their way down!
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John "Short Truck" Bielicki actually delivered a package from Craig "Unibomber" Hobdell to one of the miners in this shaft. Later that day.... the shaft was 400 feet longer and wider. |
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We take our beer/lunch break at Al Visintainer's in Mt. Carmel, PA
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Al "P-nits" Visintainer is the owner/bartender of our favorite stop on the way north, Visintainer's in Mt. Carmel. How lucky was he to find a bar with his name on it? His cousin just became a Saint. Al will always be our "Saint of Yuengling" and keeper of many jokes. |
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Al said this thing used to fart when you walked past it. When it stopped working, Al picked up the pace. He let go two air biscuits while we were there that sounded AWFUL! Houston, we have a problem. I'll bet he had to hose off after we left! NOYCE!
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Holy Ice Bucket, reportedly blessed by the Pope himself!
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Craig "Unibomber" Hobdell sharpen's his skunk-eye.
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Paul "Sheep Shagger" Hegarty and John "Short Truck" Bielicki are in a beer trance.
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Scott "Gator Boy" Zehner found Silly String in the checkout line at the Dollar Store. Yup, he bought 3 cans. Yup, I had one of them and the rest was history. Yeeehaaaa!
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Craig "Unibomber" Hobdell was my next victim. Heh heh heh...
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Sally cups go with Silly string, right?
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Designated Driver's Seat? Steer to beer! |
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Do we have fun or what? Sign our friggen guest book! |