Frenchy's Rant

In a magazine, this would be one of those annoying sidebars, but blogs don’t have sidebars. I couldn’t come up with an easy way to weave this into the rest of story, so here it is on it’s own.

As a way to fit in, Expedition newcomer Unleaded (aka Keith – don’t worry, the nickname explanations are coming soon) came up with his own gimmick to compliment my ‘Island Claiming Gimmick’ and our ‘Best Day Ever’ toast.

Unleaded brought along a little Buddha statue, and by the second day he was having a blast asking random people hold the Buddha and taking their picture with it.

I posted the entire catalog of Keith’s Buddha pictures on my Weekly Pictures blog, which is located here.

The Expedition write up is almost finished and will post very soon, but this video is too good not to share.

Here’s what really happens backstage at a WWE show, at least after all the work is done and there’s no baseball game on. This new musical sensation, on tour this summer, called The Cardboard Warriors featuring Brian on cardboard guitar and Abi on cardboard Pan flute will be coming soon to a town near you!

… and the writing.

For some godawful reason, lately they’ve been forcing me to EARN my money at work, with live phone calls, extra shows, and all manner of work-related tedium that keeps me away from doing what I really like to do at work… write blogs!

Never fear, Faithful Fifteen, we managed to nearly kill the boss once again on the show last night, so maybe things will slow down a bit, and I will finally have the time necessary to write up another yawn-inspiring report for last week’s all-too short Great Unsponsored Nova Scotia Expedition.

Seven boats, three newly-claimed islands, one elusive iceberg, two fin whales, hundreds of pictures, and over two thousand miles of great roads and laughs, and the Expedition, while nearly complete, is still going strong.

Today is our last full day on Nova Scotia, and of the trip. As a nice surprise, we’re going to the Yarmouth ferry via Nova Scotia’s Lighthouse Trail, which should be a lot of fun…. for me at least. It’s sad to say, but in less than 48 hours, the Expedition will be complete.

And planning for the next one will begin the next day.

The Expedition has reached the halfway point, and all is well. We’re in Twillingate, Newfoundland right now, which is the self-proclaimed Iceberg Capital of the World. It’s also unfortunately the Foggy, Cold and Shitty Weather capital of the world too.

The Iceberg boat tour was canceled for today (our one day off) so we’re going to try again for tomorrow. Then it’s 400 miles of high sped flying on Route One through Newfoundland’s beautiful heartland, with any luck catching the ferry back to Nova Scotia tomorrow, riding the beautiful the Cabot Trail, more lobster Halifax, the still-secret Lighthouse Trail in Nova Scotia, then the long slog back home, and back to reality.

The entire Expedition story will follow shortly after we return.