May 20 – Day
140
32,792
Miles
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REPORT FROM THE WALK:
From Warren Peice:
Don’t know as I can do this tale justice,
but you guys back home need to have some idea of what’s been going on.
No sooner than we got to the Australian
mainland, we were met by a strange tall fellow.
He called himself Olgingo.
We followed him. For three days. We had no idea where he was taking us. He had
this habit of stopping suddenly and throwing his arms out stretched. Within a
few seconds a willy-willy would appear. (A whirlwind). He would watch it. Then follow it. Even if it
was going in the opposite direction we had been going! After three days of this
walking about with Olgingo we came upon a small
cattle ranch. Olgingo made some sounds like a dingo
and eventually a man came out of the small farmhouse. They crouched down and
talked.
Quite
animated. Kept looking at us.
The cattle rancher got up and walked
over to us.
He asked us to gather round him and said
we needed to talk.
“You all have caused quite a stir here.
You are here to get someone you have lost.”
Olgingo joined him and said something to him that we could
not understand.
“We are glad you are here. We have what
you lost. We need your help.”
“We have never seen the world so messsed up. What you have lost appeared to us in a sacred
ceremony far from here. It’s a ceremony our elders and warriors have been doing
since the beginning of time. It is the doorway where superbeings
come out of the dreamtime to guide us. It has been a long time since one has
appeared.”
“Last week one appeared. But he is not
like any of the others before him. He says things in a language we do not know.
He disappears and reappears. He looks more like you than us.”
“Our warriors finally trapped him in a
special spirit shield they made. We have come to know what needs to be done,
but you must do it, not us.”
We told him we will do whatever it
takes.
“There is an aboriginal tribe to the
east. The Irukandji. They will help
you find the medicine that will help this strange superbeing.”
We followed Olgingo for
another day, going mostly east. We arrived at the ocean just north of
We got up around 4am and walked into
We were surprised
at how many people were up and scurrying around. We made our way out to the
“the nard” and there was the
Two hours later we were docked by this small island.
Captain Nemo asked for some
volunteers to dive. He said we were looking for a small jellyfish that was
incredibly dangerous. Many people have died from its sting. He showed us a
picture of what we were looking for and gave us each a trap to put one in if we
were to find one.
I’ll let Marilyn tell you her story:
“ I was a bit scared to try this as I
really hadn’t seen jellyfish before. I took senior life guard training back home
in
Someone later told me it was a Big
Wally. Anyway, I was guided right to a spot where there were several of these
jellyfish. They had pretty long tentacles so it wasn’t easy getting them in the
container without getting stung. But I got one and just barely had enough air
to get back to the surface.”
We got back to
Well we missed most of that,
we were on our way to where the narrator was being held in a spirit shield, whatever
that was. We crossed over a small mountain range that had some really neat
valleys with rainforest type vegetation and then things got dry.
Miles and miles of mostly desert. Lots of dry creek
beds that fill up during the monsoon season.
After several days we arrived in an area that is
actually a national park called Carnavron Gorge.
I have to tell you, we hadn’t seen a soul in days. We
came around a corner and suddenly we were face to face with the warriors.
So this is a spirit shield! We could hear some
murmurs. They let us get close enough to listen.
I think we heard the shield say, “Prepare for the
singularity” then there was a long period that sounded like a cross between
radio static and ocean surf. Then it sounded like it said “Too fat, my ___!” Strange.
Olgingo talked with the warriors and they got
much more relaxed. Olgingo motioned to us to take the
jellyfish we had captured and spill it out onto the shield.
We did.
The sounds got louder for several minutes. More gurgly. They suddenly with a
coughing sound, what appeared to be throw-up came flying out of the shield and
behind the shield, the narrator dropped to the ground. He was curled up,
holding his stomach and groaning.
The warriors all stepped back and motioned for us to
take him. We did.
We made it to
They said he would be gradually improving as the
poison left his body. This morning we moved him to a cabin on the Earthwalk ocean barge while we headed south to see the Gold
Coast beaches before leaving for our trip across the Pacific back to
FROM EARTHWALK COSMIC HEADQUARTERS IN OMAHAHA
Last week we got a call from
He said if we could see all time as one time, we would
understand the dreamtime his people live in. Here’s the deal he said.
Your narrator needs some medicine to live.
The medicine comes from a creature that lives in the
If the
Then
The warm water is a symptom of Global Warming.
The large coal burning plants and other carbon
emissions of
You must totally shift your operation away from this
type of power consumption into forms that do not contribute to Global Warming.
The life of your narrator will depend on what you do
in the next several days.
Wow.
Stunned. Before we had time to think about it,
we coincidentally got an email from a company called thinkhost.
They were trying to get us to move our website to their hosting computers. Then
I read it.
Wow.
If that isn’t a cosmic coincidence! Immediately we began
doing all the paperwork and getting all the technology moving and ta da!
Yesterday we completed the move.
The Earthwalk is now
entirely powered by renewable energy.
TWO NEW CONTESTS:
1. When you
record your miles, enter in the comments section the date you think we will
complete the earth walk. The closest guess gets points equal to the leading points person.
2. The EffortOmeter Free Lunch Point Generator
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The contest started May 9th and the contest ends at
the conclusion of the EarthWalk
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each pound lost earns a base point
-
average miles per day of biking earn base points
-
average miles per day of walking earn base points
multiplied by 2.14285714285714
-
average miles per day of jogging/running earn base
points multiplied by 2.74285714285714
-
average miles per day of swimming earn base points
multiplied by 7.34693877551021
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base points earned will become the exponent of base 2
in determining free lunch points awarded
Here is an example of how the contest would work:
Joe Nibs loses one pound, runs 6 miles, walks 35 miles
and bikes 20 mile.
It takes us 25 days to get home. Here is what Joe
earns in free lunch points:
Pound Lost – 1 base point
Running – 6 miles/25 days = .24 base points times the
multiplier = 0.658285714285714 base points
Walking – 35 miles/25 days = 1.4 base points times the multiplier =
3 base points
Biking 20 miles/35 days = 0.571428571428571 base
points
Add up all the base points and you get
5.22971428571428 base points
The base points are used as the exponent of base 2
which calculates to 37.52328 free lunch points (here it gets rounded to 38
points)
So here is truly your chance to “step on the gas
biofuel” and be precisely rewarded.