MANcationz

Wanna live like Hemmingway or Jimmy Buffett for a weekend?  Go to one of my favorite places in the world – Key West, Florida.

Key West - there’s so much to write about.  In this post, I’m just gonna stick with the Key West Pub Crawl (The Duval Crawl).  We’ll write more about Key West fishing and other Florida Keys stuff later.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ok – I am really not into Celebrity & Pop Culture bullshit, but I just heard this and thought it was Fucking awesome!!  Evidently, there’s been a feud between Eminem and Mariah Carey / Nick Cannon.  Honestly, I don’t know how it started, or exactly what happened.  I believe Mariah made a video for her song “Obsessed” with a funny looking character that was supposed to be Eminem in an ill-fated attempt to “diss” Eminem.  I don’t know…whatever.  Anyway, about an hour ago, Eminem launched a new song on Youtube (that’s where I heard it anyway) via Twitter.  Holy Shit!!  He completely, totally, fucks up Mariah & Cannon.  In the song he calls Mariah a Whore and talks about how he banged her and “nutted” on her stomach.  He calls Nick a Faggot.  Hahahahaha!!  Apparently Em has some pics he may soon be sharing (let us pray).  

I know this is off topic of our website, but I think you guys will really enjoy this.  Twitter’s on fire w/ it right now and it hasn’t even hit Google Trends yet.  Tomorrow, I say it spends some serious time at #1 on Google Trends.

Nick, I’m sorry but he made you look like a pussy.  Mariah, you’re hot, but now you look like a crazy bitch.

And now introducing…the real Slim Shady………..

Looking for a weekend getaway that makes you scream like a girl at a Hanna Montana concert while launching you to speeds and heights that will leave even the strongest man with a wet spot in his pants? Then you and your buddies need to go to the nationally renowned Cedar Point Amusement Park located right on Lake Erie in Sandusky, OH. The park boasts an unheard of 17, yes, 17 roller coasters (more than any other park in the world)! Read the rest of this entry »

Remember the line “Rubbin’ is Racin” from the classic Tom Cruise movie “Days of Thunder?” Well if you remember the line then you remember the way you felt watching the race scenes and you also remember the next time you got into the car, smashin the pedal to the floor, blowing the stop signs and banking the turns as fast as humanly possible as you sped your way to the Circle K to get a pack of ciggarettes. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s something I think most guys will find pretty interesting.  It’s not a cool mancation destination, but it is an item you’ll want to bring along on your next trip.  It’s great for camping, tailgating or you may just want to drag it along behind you while walking up & down Bourbon St (New Orleans) or Duvall St (Key West).  You can check it out here at myFiveBest.com.

We here at Mancationz have been on a short hiatus, and we apologize to our subscribers and followers.  Well, we’re back and we’re ready to start writing more useless but entertaining shit to help you waste your valuable time.  So please subscribe to our feed and drop us a line, we’d love to hear from you. 

Jimm posted this article on our other site myFiveBest.com and I thought it would also be a great fit for Mancationz.  So I apologize if you’re reading this as a duplicate.  I don’t necessarily agree with his order, but the info is pretty cool.  [Ahem!]  I would’ve had to put #5 up at #1.  I’m actually trying to figure out a way to get on that trip.  Please feel free to make a donation to the site so I can go out to fight the skinny pirates…it’s only $5750 per day.  Thanks in advance.

Here are five favorite spots for you to check out this year if you want to do something…well…just a little different.

Who’s Going Out For Beer?
How much do you love beer?  How much do you love Samuel Adams beer? Dude, I have the trip for you!  You have to book a trip on the Samuel Adams Hopfenpflücken Adventure.  On this trip, you get to go with the Samuel Adams execs and fly over to Germany and see what they know about BEER!  And the trip doesn’t stop there, you get to check out how they make beer, learn the history of beer, and you get to drink lots of beer!  The trip is put together by travel gurus Abercrombie & Kent and costs $3597.  You better work fast though because the bus is leaving on July 31!
Samuel Adams Hopfenpflücken Adventure

Easy Riding
If you are a motorcycle fan, the place where you are going to want to go (besides one of the many rallies they have throughout the year) is the place where the mother of all motorcycles lives – The Harley-Davidson Museum!  Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the trip is an easy drive on your hog and only costs $16 to get in the door.  There you can look through the 2 story museum over Harleys from yesterday. Stop by their museum gift shop for some branded items and pick up some lunch on the way out!  If your kid is riding in your sidecar, they get in free every Sunday.
Harley-Davidson Museum

Four Score and Seven
The Civil War is long over, but you can still tour the Battle of Gettysburg – from horseback!  Brought to you by Artillery Ridge Tours, you can spend a couple of hours wandering around Gettysburg Battlegrounds just like General Lee did it during the actual battle!  Bring your buddies because it costs you less in a group!  Six of you can spend two hours on a horse with a guide for a mere $20 each, or double the time for double the cost!  Go it alone and it is costing you $70 for the two hour tour.  This is truly a wonderful way to learn about history and get in some fun.Gettysburg Horse Riding Tour

On Guard!
Some of us are geeks and some of us find it fun to beat the crap out of our friends with plumbing supplies.  That’s why there is the Fantasy Weekends available through NorthCoast Nero, LLC.  For a weekend, you can dress up as fantasy warrior, wizard, or thief and fight off an array of monsters, goblins, and bad guys. The fun never stops from Friday night to Sunday morning as you get the opportunity to slay, skewer, and rob your buddies!  The weekend event happens once a month in Northeast Ohio and only costs $40 to play in the game.  Who said you never had a little Conan in you!?!
NorthCoast Nero Fantasy Weekends

Pirates vs. Ninjas

I don’t know if there is any validity to this story, but Austrian business newspaper reported that Russian Cruise Lines are offering Pirate Killing Cruises off the coast of Somalia!  For $5750/day, they arm you, put you in a yacht and boat you around the Somalia coastline in the hopes that pirates will attack and you get the chance to strike back!  You can even rent additional weapons and bullets! There’s no link on this one.  I guess no matter where you are in the world, you can get in trouble for charging people to murder others – even pirates.

I just got back from a short weekend trip to Put in Bay, OH.  Put in Bay is a really cool little island on Lake Erie.  It’s a short ferry ride to the island from Port Clinton or Marblehead, OH.  The island is like a little Key West for northerners.

I went up with the boys for a one day walleye fishing trip which was cancelled due to weather.  We spent the night in some shitty little trailer in Port Clinton.  We hung out all night by the fire driniking beer and telling lies.  We woke up before sunrise to find our fishing trip cancelled because of a small craft advisory on Lake Erie.

We ended up heading over to Put in Bay instead.  Holy Shit what a trip.  We rented a golf cart for the day which was perfect for getting around the small island while in a drunken stooper.  We started off slow, just drinking a few beers at all the different bars while cruising the island and seeing all it had to offer.  There’s a lot of really cool sites and history to see on the island. 

One of our first stops was Heinemans Winery where  Chris (co-writer on Mancationz.com) had a little too much Pinot Grigio (4 glasses) and began telling several strangers around us how hard he cried when he heard of Michael Jackson’s untimely death.  Chris was cut off and we left.

We continued cruising the island and taking in all the sites.  We were amazed at all the beautiful bikini clad women running around the island…drinking…heavily.  We stopped at Mr. Ed’s for lunch.  We sat out on the patio; ate, drank and flirted with our cute waitress.

During the day, the island is very family friendly and there’s a lot of cool stuff for the kids to see and do.  At night there’s an amazing transformation into a not so kid friendly Disney Land for drunks.  There’s several really cool bars in the downtown area (Mr. Ed’s, Frosty’s, Mossbacks, The Roundhouse & more).  Most of them provide Key West style entertainment like the famous folk singer, Pat Daily.  It’s a great party atmoshere and those same bikini clad women get friendlier as the night progresses.

This was one hell of a Mancation weekend and I would highly recommend it to anyone living within driving distance to Lake Erie.  If you have a boat, even better.  Dock it and hang out in the marina which gets just as crazy as the downtown area. 

Be sure to get in at least a one day Walleye trip while you’re there.  Lake Erie provides some of the best Walleye fishing in the world.  You can book a half day or full day trip which can include lodging in one of their shitty little trailers.  But the shittier the lodging, the more fun the trip is in my opinion.

Tell us about your Mancation to Put in Bay, or fishing trip on Lake Erie.  We would love to hear from you.