I'm such a proud TJ!! In my absence, my awesome cat, Apophis (who you see swimming on the right) is the mom of new kitties. This explains Kelly's sudden urge to clean my RV...new kitties in RV equals lots of unsavory details.
Hey, anyone want a free Turkish Van kitty? They're good swimmers (but they flinch a lot when you try to put scuba gear on them).

Jack said, "Wakeboarding and snowboarding are really similar, so you'll pick it up in no time."

Um, Jack, I don't remember the last time I was snowboarding and someone hooked my board up to a snowmobile and dragged me over moguls while I did a flattering ass-plant into the mountain. Just hasn't happened.

Hence, my wakeboarding shot (left, obviously) makes me look a heck of a lot more lame than my snowboarding shot (right).

 

 

Madiera
Island






We're embarking on the super-huge leg of our journey through the Atlantic Ocean back to the east coast of the United States!! This is our last stretch before we go home!  Scary? Oh yes. Not only because we're traveling through the Atlantic during an approaching hurricaine season, but because we'll have long stretches without land, meaning I'm stuck in this tub with Jack, Devon and Chau (and our fleet of mini battlebots.)

The island you see on the left is Madiera island. It's off Portugal and it's a really awesome place to be. It's beautiful and the surfing is extremely awesome (says Jack). To the right is a shot I got off a sailboat we were on...nice Americans took us out for a ride.

On our way back to the U.S., I have a huge to-do list. I'm returning for my first job with the Discovery Channel on the Animal Planet show, Chasing Nature. For the particular stunt I'm doing, I'll need to know how to wake board. I've never tried this before, but guess what? I got a boat, an ocean, and nothing but time...and I have a wakeboard and Jack. Chau has offered to get video footage of the whole thing and if my Internet connection holds up, I'm thinking y'all will get to see some outrageous outakes in the next few weeks.

Mahalo! (as they say in Madiera...no, wait, that's Hawaii)

A Gantlet has been thrown to see who is the geekiest of all.

Try to find as many popular culture references as you can to the phrase:
"Klaatu Barada Nikto."

Now, be ware, only the true geek will be able to come up with at least three without looking online for the answers.

-Gort-

Here's what I wish. I wish Paris Hilton would do that interns show again, but get an internship as a bait girl on the Rollo...they didn't catch a lot of crabs anyway - but a rogue wave would just come out of nowhere and wipe Paris Hilton out to sea. Of course she wouldn't be wearing an immersion suit because it would make her look fat, so she would freeze to death and die (as opposed to freezing to death and living) in seven minutes.

No disrespect to Captain Stien Eric Nyhammer of the  Rollo, by the way. I like him and his crabfisherly escapades. I like his 107-foot house forward boat. It's cool that he's doing the whole Discovery Channel thing just so his sons can see him at work. If I had sons, I wouldn't want them to see me at sea...because they'd know that I cheat like m-f at Xbox games...and at U-Boat (which I hear you all call Battle Ship in the US.) Weirdos.