January 26

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REPORT FROM THE WALK:

Hi Mom,

Sorry we haven’t written yet. Julie and I have been having so much fun, it’s hard to find the time. We’re in Peru! We’ve been going south along the coast and should get to Lima tomorrow or the next day.

We spent the last week or more out on the ocean visiting the Galapagos Islands. I got really worried on the way back because I hadn’t seen Julie for a while and they said the head count after leaving the islands was one short. Well, everything turned out ok. This other girl I met, Jasmine Turnbuckle, was really the one who was missing. A few calls back to the islands and we found her. She had decided to stay. She’s a bird lover and she was just absolutely mesmerized by the mating dance of the blue-footed boobies. If you ever saw them you would understand.

The male raises one blue foot in the air, then the other, as he struts in front of the female. Both the male and the female stretch their necks and point their bills to the sky. The male spreads his wings and whistles. The female may tuck her head under her wing. It’s just absolutely engrossing.

Anyhoo, we’re spending the night outside of Chimbote near a group of about 300 woven grass huts they call an invasion. It’s mostly people from up in the mountains who come down to the city to try to make some money. We saw girls with a hammer breaking up bigger rocks and throwing them on piles of smaller rocks. A truck will come by later and pay them for the rocks they have broken into smaller ones. The weather has been great, it’s going to be a clear night with a little breeze off the ocean. It was about 80 degrees earlier in the day but it will stay in the low 70’s tonight. After we get through Lima we’ll be heading up into the Andes.

We love you. Take care of little Herbie for us.

Lindy and Julie

BIG NEWS FROM OMAHAHA

CROC CRISIS CRACKS

If you submitted miles between 8:13am and 7:47pm on Thursday, you must resubmit them. They have been totally lost. Here’s the sad story. After a week of occupying the data entry floor, the fired alligators and their croc friends finally ate through or ripped up the last communication lines we had into the computers. They forced us to take drastic action. We rounded up an elite swat team of rare hog-nosed skunks (which also go by the name Zorrillo Nariz de Puerco) and forced the leatherbacks through a hole we blew out on the side of the building. They fell down a long chute we had attached to our swamp truck and they are currently headed for a chic bayou retirement villa in Louisiana.

The data entry floor is an absolute disaster. It looked like a bunch of animals had been living there for a week! We’ve brought in new equipment. The cats would not return to work until Frenchie’s Perfumigation team had thoroughly treated every inch.

Really, this is not a joke. This is real. You must resubmit miles submitted between 8:13am and 7:47pm on Thursday.

Holy Smokes! Almost forgot about Chief Nutrition Officer Dr. Greger’s Nutrition Quiz.

The Orangutan twins gave out 147 free lunch points to those who completed the quiz and everyone who took it got at least 2 points. Here are the answers:

1. The experts say that two out of three Americans are going to die from what they are eating.

2. A regular beef patty has 8 teaspoons of cow fat in it.

3. Seventy-six million Americans get food poisoning each year.

4. The American Cancer Society recommends we eat nine servings of fruits and vegetables every day.

5. The best antioxidant food is blueberries.

6. The process of milling regular flour strips away twenty-five significant nutrients.

7. The National Academy of Science recommends we limit our intake of trans fatty acids to absolute zero.

8. (and 9) Two ways of cutting your chances of having a stroke in half are to drink 5 glasses of water every day and have a serving of nuts.

10. In a large study it was found that patients scored higher in nutrition knowledge than their doctors.

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