Wow. Where do I start? The first ever National Beard and Moustache Championships in Bend, OR was awesome. I had a blast. I meet many new bearded brethren with whom I partied my ass off. We all felt like rock stars for a weekend. There was so many people taking pictures and lots of press coverage. OregonLive.com was
there, Demotix was
there, even the Los Angeles Times was
there. There are of course YouTube
videos. I'm quoted and featured in a video called
Bearded In Bend from the local ABC affiliate station KOHD. I even got my
picture in the LA Times. My pics of the event are on
Flickr and
Facebook. Visit the
BTUSA website and Facebook for lots more pics and videos of the event. We even went for a Guinness Book of World Records
record for the most bearded people in one place. My traveling companion, two time world sideburns champion and one of the coolest dudes I know,
Toot Joslin, won the partial beard category. He also held a
grooming clinic. Here's the competitions
full results. Bearded badass
Jack Passion emceed.
The day before the competition was
activity day. I choose the Central Oregon Microbrew Pub Tour. Our tour guide, Amanda Gow from
Specialized Meetings and Events wrote in an email "I wanted to extend a huge THANK YOU to all of the tour participants for making today's tour the best one I have ever been on." We were a
rowdy bunch. We visited
McMenamins Old St. Francis School, Cascade Lakes Brewery and
Deschutes Brewery.
The weekend was bookended by my
whirlwind tour of the Pacific Northwest, from Reno to Bend and back again!
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