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David Gilbarte

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2014 is gonna be my year!

Here are some accomplishments from this year in no particular order:
✅Finished college
✅Snowboarded 27 days
✅Had car trouble in 10 degree cold
✅Slept with raw chicken breasts in my bed
✅Had a bowling injury
✅Blew up a couch
✅Read the owners manual for a dryer
✅Saw a manatee in the wild
✅Learned some West African dance
✅Bowled a 208 without eating any oats
✅Found human remains in the LA wildfires
✅Had a campfire conversation about psychedelics with a man named Skynard
✅Skipped my own graduation to go cliff jumping
✅Got DOT certified to be a trucker
✅Went 2,160 miles in a 26 foot box truck
✅Forced subordinates to water slide into crawfish
✅Lived in Alabama for a month
✅Attended several jazz events
✅Camped in a pasture of wild ponies
✅Profited after a 10 day trip to Vegas
✅Drove 5,000+ miles over 4 months to hang out with emmi
✅Corned beef hash
✅Held a baby goat
✅Saw 4 @winyahband concerts
✅Drank a raw quail egg
✅Guided a crane operator
✅Saw a whale shark
✅Spent an entire day driving the blue ridge parkway
✅Read the Bible to a wild bear
✅Lead a team of 6 hooligans in charge of entertaining 8,347 people
✅Spent other people’s money on a gong (again)
✅Saw another one of the blimps on earth
✅Mountain biked down a ski slope

Real fans know the stats were better last year. Worry not beloved, next year has funny business like never before. taken in Long John Silver's by @davidgilbarte

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Chronologically compiled multimedia that I captured between today and the last time I posted taken in Gary, Indiana by @davidgilbarte

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a year ago

When I’m the strange uncle I will tell my nephews about 2024

36 States
9 Countries
3 Continents
40,000+ miles traveled
17 flights

In the US drove so far north they spoke French, so far south I saw a blimp, and so far west they believe in Joseph Smith

✅Completed a marathon
✅Quad biked in the African desert
✅Swam in the Mediterranean Sea
✅Public urination in London
✅Learned 30% of Spanish
✅Held a monkey
✅Climbed a couple alps
✅Woke up outside to the sound of wolves howling
✅Painted myself blue
✅Watched hockey in Canada
✅Snowboarded 24 days
✅Searched for a missing person in a cave
✅Competed in a snowboarding competition
✅Completed 407 doordash deliveries
✅Woke up in a puddle
✅Befriended a salamander
✅Spray painted on a car
✅Saw a moose
✅Had a snowball fight in June
✅Borrowed a hippie’s didgeridoo
✅Wore hats that I found on the ground in 4 countries
✅Saw a chicken cross the road
✅Summited angel’s landing without a permit
✅Made ravioli in a bank parking lot
✅Bought at least 3 pots
✅Went 10 days straight without showering
✅Sprinted through an airport
✅Walked past the Mona Lisa without taking a picture
✅Drove to key west and back for no good reason
✅Showered in a waterfall a mile underground
✅Class 4 mountaineering, K3 via Ferrata, 5+ sport climbing
✅Ate a baguette at the Eiffel Tower
✅Chanted insults at the Irish
✅Skinny dipped in Italy
✅Attended a wine tasting
✅Wake surfed
✅Ate grilled iguana
✅Solo traveled to the capital of Morocco
✅Saw a bear
✅Had a pint of guiness with a pastor
✅Joined a band of singing gypsies
✅Camped 29 nights
✅Sheltered in a cave during a thunderstorm
✅Made spaghetti in the desert
✅Feuded with Italian lumberjacks taken in 2024 by @davidgilbarte

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2 years ago

In an attempt to outsmart the kraken, I fled to Florida. Still feeling his wrath, I tried Wyoming to no avail.

I have no choice but to make this escape trans-continental. by @davidgilbarte

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2 years ago

I’ve spent most of the summer fleeing to high elevation in case the kraken returns taken in Over the Hills and Far Away by @davidgilbarte

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2 years ago

People’s appreciation of the jig seems to be contingent upon the jig being up. Cheers to another two months of the jig operating at full capacity. by @davidgilbarte

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2 years ago

A shmorgishborg of times from 2024 I wished my Instagram wasn’t just about bathrooms

18 days snowboarding
9 days international
13 days of class taken in The Seven Seas by @davidgilbarte

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