BC Spearing Trip: Round Two!

[Amphibious]

24-30 for me, BC Blindsiders are GO!

we need a TV show like thunderbirds....

[Fondueset]

Well - here's the skinny. Quite a few years ago - when we started to realize what we were into with our autistic son, Guy - my lovely wife Kathy gave up her job to care for him. Last Spring, about half-way into the TC trip - The latest experiment with his meds went way south and things were very difficult. The upshot of all this is several-fold - A: We're a single income family with an Autistic kid and a kid in College - so we can't do two of these things B: We can't vacation together because we're the only ones qualified to work with Guy. C: Kath hasn't been anywhere in 12 years!

As a result I decided to forgo my place in the upcoming impossible-but-for-unnaccountable-fortuitousness-of-the-third-kind adventure. About this time Claire and I were also invited to go to Little Cayman. To my mind hot water is for cooking but, as both options were inexplicably feaseable I put them both on a plate for the ladies. Come to find out Kath had been having dreams of reading a thick book on russian history in a tropical paradise.

I am bummed - but very happy to be able to do this for Kath. There is no one known to me who is more deserving of some down time.

I'll miss the very rare and excellent company - as well as the diving - but will be there in spirit. Even now I am preparing strange asynchronous events to mark my presence among you.

[jimdoe2you]

Chris,

Who is going to protect me from the Whale Lady?

I'm saddened that you and Claire (original TC crew members) will not be attending . Colin and I will dispense shots of Cactus Juice and we shall all have toast in you honor! If events change for you in the near future, please do reconsider.

Jim

[efattah]

Fondueset pretends that he isn't coming, acting as if he has a choice in the matter... I suppose he is conveniently forgetting the blood bond that all original telegraph trip members took.... once together ALWAYS together... regardless of circumstance -- life, death, the same.

[laminar]

Bummer, Chris. Although I'm glad that Kath will get to enjoy some Caymanian R&R.

Count me in for the week of 24-30 June.

Pete

[Fondueset]

Originally Posted by efattah

Fondueset pretends that he isn't coming, acting as if he has a choice in the matter... I suppose he is conveniently forgetting the blood bond that all original telegraph trip members took.... once together ALWAYS together... regardless of circumstance -- life, death, the same.

...I remember a pungent stew made by Colin and Tyler - something about pituitary of ling - and strange moss - figures undulating in the firelight, Eric standing motionless for hours amidst the chaotic shadows cast by the fire, Jim twitching in fetal position and laughing with a slug held close to his face, Lee's erie howling echoing from somewhere in the underbrush, Gabe and Brianna cackling from high in the trees, Pete writing, allways writing with that knowing glint in his eye - made somehow demonic by the orange face paint. Then what seemed to be some type of medical examination by a beautiful Swedish woman with huge, irisless eyes.. Suddenly I was 14 meters down looking at an F1. After that I just tried to act normal.

[jimdoe2you]

You forgot to mention the mushrooms Tyler found and added to the stew. I recall making my peace with dead ex-girlfriends, .................of course the next morning I remembered that I don't have any dead ex-girlfriends.

Ahhhh, ..........good times!

[foxfish]

Jim you really are not doing your self any favours admitting your somewhat dubious habits! First it was pot now hallucinogenic mushrooms! (most likely-Philocybe semilanceata)

[Amphibious]

Philocybe mushrooms are native to the region and pretty easy to find if you know where to look

[jimdoe2you]

Yeah, just ask the native islander Tyler!!!

Thank God these dates don't interfer with my trip to California for the "Dinah Shore Weeekend" (I dress up like a woman and tell all the girls that I am actually a "Chick with a D!ck" ).

When I see Rosie O'Donnell, I'm going to punch her!

Dinah Shore Weekend Vacation Getaway

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[Fondueset]

Jim, your humility is simply awe inspiring.

[Amphibious]

you'll be there in Spearit for sure Chris!

I will do some funky eastern yoga on the beach in your honor!

[tylerz]

Man, I can't leave you guys alone for more than a few posts!!! I think the trip had a more significant impact on you than I could have imagined. But I guess that is what you get for dancing with the island spirits. You are all certifiably insane it appears.

Anyhow, I have no clue what I will be up to or where I will be at the end of June, let alone at the end of March. I can say that if I am around in BC and am not involved in an intense project, I will most likely be inclined to attend, and once again would be inclined to attempt to sail up there in time. I almost made it there during my summer sailling adventures. I had one day more of sailing and I would have made it, but time constraints had me turn around. This was during daily gale force winds in the afternoon. It was an adventure.

[Erik]

I'll put in at work a request for June 24-30!
Erik

[Fondueset]

'Certifiably insane' -

This from a man who tries to use sculpins as telephones.