February 12 – Day 43

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REPORT FROM THE WALK:

MORE CHANGES ON THE EARTHWALK OCEAN BARGE

From Marge P.:

Finally out of the rainforests. You know they didn’t tell you the whole story about that place. I was dripping in sweat for the last week. I was bug bait like I can’t tell you. We saw snakes that swallowed dogs. As soon as we got to Natal, we went directly to the beautiful beaches and had a most refreshing swim.

Captain Nemo Menomenem had the EarthWalk Ocean Barge moored at the pier just like he told us he would. His crew had done some pretty cool renovations while waiting for us. For one thing they added about two dozen paddleboat type stations down near the waterline on each side of the ship. It’ll give us more power and the bikers had been complaining that they needed something like this anyway.

The other big change was on the center of the deck. Dr. Greger, the ship M.D. and head chef, had ordered a large greenhouse built right there. It was beautiful and stocked with ready to harvest plants!

Our first meal on ship was a huge organic salad from the greenhouse!

Every day we each spend some time now working in the greenhouse and it’s really wonderful to work with green living plants out here in the middle of the Atlantic.

There has been one disturbing problem on ship. Several people have had a knock on their cabin doors and when they ask who is it they’ll get answers like “Girl Scouts – want some cookies?” or “Telegram from home” or “We’re the Publishers Clearing House awards team”. Then they open the door only to find …

A dangerous Land Shark!

So far everyone has escaped without serious injury, but the Captain has selected a team of investigators to get to the bottom of this.

FROM BUBBA JOE ROY:

I talked with the narrator last night and asked him where he had been. We hadn’t seen much of him lately. He said he’s been fascinated with these archeological finds we’ve made and been hanging out with the other archeologists on the walk. He’s learned that the luminous golden ball and the translucent small pyramid were once used together to produce a very strong and specifically tuned electromagnetic field. Although both of these items were found near Machu Picchu, they are starting to believe that these items were brought there from Egypt over 3,000 years ago. They are getting clues as they learn to work with the translucent pyramid. They are finding if they concentrate on it just right, they see flashes of images in the pyramid that help unravel the mystery.

What they are now thinking is that there is still one part of the device missing. Some sort of flexible shield that would have been placed under the translucent pyramid when the golden orb was placed inside the pyramid.

Ms. Fleming has been working with the pyramid the most and she believes that the pyramid was taken from Egypt during the reign of King Tutankhamen. A group of astrologers and nobles at the time, believed there needed to be a shift in power to a place far away from Egypt and they arranged to have the orb and translucent pyramid stolen and brought to the land that would later be called America. One part of the device did not make it. The courier with the flexible shield was caught, as was the whole group and they were killed and buried in a tomb. Ms. Fleming believes this tomb has not yet been discovered but is close to the tomb of the King himself. Ms. Fleming has conveyed all this to some of her friends in Memphis and they left immediately for Egypt to try to find this tomb where she has described it.

FROM EARTHWALK COSMIC HEADQUARTERS IN OMAHAHA

After some head spinning calculations, all the votes have been tallied and we know where we are headed in Africa. We’ll for sure make it to the top three spots and maybe more:

Free Lunch Points for growing the EarthWalk horde while in South America will be awarded soon. More calculations are spinning. Here are the points awarded to each Tribe and to non-tribals:

The Orangutans have come up with a new contest for points. They are calling it the Out Of Africa contest. Part of what they have come up with is from their hiring (at great expense again!) of a top Los Vegas odds maker, Jimbo the Greek-Armenian. He calls it the great equalizer. Here it is:

OUT OF AFRICA FREE LUNCH FOR TWO POINTS AWARDED WHEN LEAVING AFRICA
Raising ones ranking in the EarthWalk Foot Miles Standing. (Foot miles are the combined walking, running and jogging miles.)	1 point for every rise in the ranking – (no points lost for dropping in the rankings)
Recruiting someone to join EarthWalk. If you are in a tribe, recruit someone to join your tribe.	1 point for each tribe member for each person recruited for your tribe.
Losing weight between now and leaving Africa	1 point for each pound lost.

Here is where each of us ranks in EarthWalk Foot Miles right now. These are miles either walked, jogged or run:

Upon Leaving South America
Place	Miles	FullName
1	407.31	Leo Huddleston
2	311.98	Charlotte Lundemo
3	210.00	Buffalo Bear
4	192.00	Kevin Handt
5	185.08	Melissa Bryant
6	171.30	Mark Burns
7	167.13	Doc Patterson
8	166.21	Elizabeth Riles
9	150.00	Katy White
10	145.40	Carmen Taylor
11	142.81	Robert Connolly
12	140.00	Frances Spinosa
13	139.00	Becky Adams
14	137.60	Nancy Goldman
15	136.90	Denise Martin
16	136.12	Patrick Jerome
17	130.00	Helen Summerford
18	126.27	Karla Burnet
19	124.74	Vicki Holland
20	120.84	Susan Wilson
21	120.00	Lee Baker
22	117.60	Bill Woolverton
23	116.80	Ron Webb
24	116.58	Dave Burnet
25	114.82	Pamela Leonard
26	108.99	Bill S
27	105.70	Luke Lundemo
28	105.00	Lois Lundemo
29	103.50	Ann Herlihy
30	97.20	Sheryl Fox
31	95.42	Barbara Scobee
32	87.55	Joseph Guess
33	85.00	Steven Handt
34	83.00	Patricia Herlihy
35	82.60	Hervie Ammons
36	82.09	Scott Carson
37	82.00	Carrie Clark
38	81.23	Annie Quimby
39	80.00	Margeaux Nicholas
40	79.20	Steve Rozman
41	76.61	Karen Graves-Posey
42	76.56	Danny Harwell
43	72.54	Gwen Morgan
44	72.32	Clay Cooley
45	72.25	Bill O'Keeffe
46	71.00	Nancy Baker
47	70.00	Gail Brosey
48	66.00	Rita Kinsella
49	64.00	Jane Sanders
50	61.80	Ernest Isaacs
51	58.28	Betty Slaton
52	58.00	Cindy Strine
53	57.78	Terri Carson
54	56.52	Sheila Nicholas
55	56.35	Gen Barbour
56	53.30	Howard Hoffman
57	52.12	Marla Meadows
58	51.80	Mary Beth Butler
59	50.49	Tao Weilundemo
60	47.00	Irena Isayeva
61	46.59	Bob Canizaro
62	46.00	Christina Johnson
63	45.37	Lynn Clark
64	45.00	Amy Clark
65	44.96	Candis Weiss
66	42.90	Mike Maloney
67	41.50	Jason Sims
68	40.40	Patricia Salzmann
69	39.68	Patricia Grierson
70	39.50	Jo P.
71	39.00	Catherine Lee
72	38.62	Maya Weilundemo
73	38.01	Gail Avery
74	38.00	Dale Patterson
75	36.50	Billy Sutherland
76	36.00	Annie Oeth
77	35.11	Loretta Harwell
78	35.04	Jeanne Rozman
79	34.30	Lori Brooks
80	32.77	Annette Holman
81	31.75	Seale Pylate
82	30.00	Diane Bredesen
83	30.00	Jim Gober
83	30.00	Laila Ashtiany
83	30.00	Mary Barnette
86	29.00	Karen Bean
87	27.90	Unnamed Miles
88	27.00	Syeda Inamdar
89	26.10	Liz Patterson
90	26.00	Roland Ley
91	25.00	Lauren Henderson
91	25.00	Ann Nelson
93	24.00	Marv Handt
94	23.76	Cosby Burnet
95	21.00	Natalie Whitten
96	19.00	Levona Morris
96	19.00	Vernie Nordstrom
98	18.00	Pegy Manning
98	18.00	Gloria Scott
100	17.50	Mireille DeBeukelaer
101	16.68	Lisa Yazdani
102	16.50	Susan Roberts
103	15.00	Debi Lewis
103	15.00	Melissa Woodland
103	15.00	Annette Arnold
103	15.00	Ann Weissenborn
107	14.00	Mary Handt
108	13.50	Mike Tomasello
109	12.30	Rikki Darcey
110	12.00	Jerry Bonds
110	12.00	Douglas Kerns
112	11.57	Teryn Yazdani
113	10.00	Kyle Ward
114	8.50	William Horton
115	8.20	Janet Eady
116	7.20	Teresa Purifoy
117	7.00	Daniel Johnson
118	6.00	Nina Redding
118	6.00	Syeda Yunus
120	6.00	Joe Woodland
120	6.00	Charlotte Williams
122	5.86	Karen Whitlow
123	5.73	Alice Allen
124	5.17	Roxie Randle
125	4.00	Amanda Myers
125	4.00	Rebecca DeShaw
127	3.80	Sotderia Griffin
128	3.62	Amy Bixenman
129	3.00	Audrey Lowry

So the strategy for getting lots of points in Africa?

- recruit! Walk-run-jog- a lot! Lose weight!!!

You can keep up with your standing in the Foot Miles, by going to the main web site,

www.computercoop.com\earthwalk.htm

Click on the More Numbers link,

Then click on the Foot Miles link.

Submit Miles Here Too