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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:54 pm

^^^ If he goes in there alone he won't be coming out! Be nice to him, let him take a friend or two and a 4X4 so that he will stay alive and be able to travel the road to Katima when he emerges from the Namib! The poor lad will be tired and footsore. He'll deserve a nice tarred road, especially when the temp is 100 F and it's raining.....

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:51 am

This lad certainly likes his weekends free but he did eventually write. His latest letter suggests that he is thinking of getting lazy on me. He is asking me to bring the money to South Africa so he could more easily pick it up. This can be interpreted in a few different ways.

1. He is at least willing to travel from Nigeria to South Africa.

2. He knows someone in South Africa willing to accept the money.

3. He is hoping that if he can get me to travel to South Africa, I might just wire him the money.

Obviously, none of these options are acceptable. I did not call this bait, "The Road to South Africa". If he does not make it to the Skeleton Coast, I will consider this bait a failure therefore, the short term mission is to convince him that the money will be easy for him to recover even if it is in Namibia.

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:59 am

Ha, I was right. It's option #2 from above. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:35 pm

For crying out loud! Does this mugu not realize how many people are looking forward to his safari adventures? Evil or Very Mad

If things look bleak, maybe the South African lad would be willing to meet you half way, say in Chad? Wink

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:04 pm

I hope your lad is sending you some postcards along the way .. Cool

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:18 am

Send him a copy of your website and inform him that t would be a pisspoor ending to a great story if this did not go through.

Explain this to him and he will surely be willing to go.

Looks like the Egypt trip is a bit harder than planned...

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:26 am

Gee, why didn't I think of that? I'm sure that he will race right off if he sees the website.

I am sure that he believes that the money is for real. Now, it is just a matter of getting someone to head to the Namibian coast. I am pretty sure that it will not be though. Whatever, just so long as someone goes, this will be a great time.

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If I recall.. this isnt the first lad to send a family member to do your dirty work... Wonder if this one will make it home? lol

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:59 am

YW, I wonder how Steven's brother in law would react if he discovered he was just being used as a decoy to throw a gang of armed bandits (who also know about the money) of the trail?

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:13 pm

It sounds like we are in business. We are now working out the details of the actual pickup.

I have already found a nice little place to pickup the money. You can see it here. http://gpsflight.catholiccall.org/trackers/063915/05.html Hopefully, the money will not get washed into the water and start floaing farther and farther north, getting washed up on the beach, only to get washed back out, and then back in, and then back out, and then back in, and then back out....

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:02 pm

^^^

Closer and closer to Katima Mulilo.
In case you hadn't noticed, YW, I have a thing about Katima Mulilo.

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:03 pm

OK, fess up. You had the greatest sex of your entire life there, right?

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:37 pm

Quote:

OK, fess up. You had the greatest sex of your entire life there, right?

Doesnt everyone?

But that is beside the point - YW you fool! Cant you tell you have buried the money below the hide tide mark?
Ahhhhh the ever floating money... Hee hee, great modality Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:23 pm

Wow....

..... there is some REAL talent here. It's very inspirational. Of course with me.... it's kind of like Benny Hill trying to imitate Albert Einstein. Something to aspire too however.

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:30 pm

YeaWhatever wrote:

OK, fess up. You had the greatest sex of your entire life there, right?

... <- sorry, just my reaction to the idea of any sex in Katima Mulilo when I was there, nevermind the greatest! Long story.....

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:35 pm

^^^^
We got the time.

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:36 pm

mike: "I had the worst sex in my life at Katima Mulilo"

419eater: "Really? How bad was it?"

mike: "It was GREAT."

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:11 pm

Mike wrote:

Long story.....

No, not really. Your escapade only gets a couple of paragraphs...

http://archive.salon.com/sex/world/2001/05/22/stuck/index.html

Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:07 pm

The lad who is supposed to pickup the money is going to be in Namibia's capital on Friday. He is headed to the cell phone store first to rent the GPS locator and satellite phone! Satellite phones are outrageously expensive to use. Calls cost about $4 per minute for incoming calls and about $2 per minute for outgoing calls. Naturally, I will be calling him often to check the status of his travel. Very Happy

The lad should be on the actual coast on Saturday. This is good. I want to be available to talk to the lad when he is there. I would not be able to do that from work.

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:24 pm

If it's any help, I found you a tide table for Namibia, so you can plant your package at low tide, unaware that the tide will cover it when it comes in.

http://www.namibia-1on1.com/Information/Tide-Table.html

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:44 pm

if hes getting the GPS locator, will we get live lad progress? it is the locator needed for coverage and not something else, isnt it?

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:03 pm

Thanks Roy. That may come in handy.

The GPS locator will not give us real-time access to the lad unfortunately. For that to happen, there needs to be a GPS tracker, which the phone does not have. Further, you need a third party service to calculate and display the tracker's location.

Either way, this should be a lot of fun. Naturally, since it will be in the middle of the night when McClure places the money on the shoreline, he will not realize how close to the water he put it. Good thing for McClure and the lad that the box will float. The current in that part of the world heads North and keeps heading North all the way to Nigeria. It could take a few weeks for the money to float that far but somehow I have a funny feeling that is exactly what is going to happen.

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:10 pm

Lol! I can just see massed lads standing on the Nigerian shoreline, hands over their eyebrows shielding their eyes from the sun, as they gaze into the surf looking for the floating trunkbox.....

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:27 pm

callum wrote:

Mike wrote:

Long story.....

No, not really. Your escapade only gets a couple of paragraphs...

http://archive.salon.com/sex/world/2001/05/22/stuck/index.html

Very Happy

Damn! I new the story would get out (so to speak) sometime!
What is it about Katima that does that to people?

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This is getting more and more intense by the moment. My productivity at work right now blows goats because of the suspense. Must...stop...refreshing...webpage. Arrrgghh!

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