Category: Off season fun
Dan Hugo and Mari Rabie wins XTERRA South Africa
Good stuff- read Dan’s report here
Mr XTERRA is in town!
Er, make that “was”…
Will Kelsay and his lovely lady, Shelby, visited South Africa for a few weeks. They spend a few days in Cape Town, then a few days in my house in Stellenbosch before tackling the Garden Route.
I’m busy renovating my house and of course,they got roped into some manual labour:
Will was super excited and went at the double brick wall like a maniac. Go to his blog to learn more about this colourful character.
Shelby can swing a hammer too
Caveman’s Month of Mopane Worm Cleansing Diet
The pros are into pre season fad diets!
Macca urged the Twitter community to join him in his pre season cleansing diet comprising of juices for a week. Matt Lieto just started his Month of Salad…
Now I urge you to join me in my Month Of Mopane Worm Cleansing Diet! Mopane worms are a delicacy in Southern Africa, and feeds millions of people every year navigate to this web-site. Usually they are harvested by hitting Mopane worm laden trees with long branches, and then harvesting them off the ground, much like one would harvest strawberries…
On day 1 of my cleansing diet I was lucky- they came marching down the Marula tree next to our house…
Its a cute one…
Merry Xmas
For my Christmas present I went from this:
to this:
Its great to be back home- spending Christmas with my parents, my moms extended family and my amazing grandma (and biggest fan) who turns 92 today.
For once the passenger won. An air travel story with a happy ending….
This story made my day…
I play a bit of guitar myself, (on a $100 cheapy, and “play” used loosely) but being a frequently frustrated traveler with a $8000 Specialized bike in a box, I can really relate to this story: (feel free to substitute “guitar” with “bicycle” in the youtube video)
A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over nine months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar. During his final exchange with the United Customer Relations Manager, he stated that he was left with no choice other than to create a music video for You Tube, exposing their lack of cooperation. The manager responded, “Good luck with that one, pal.”
He posted the following retaliatory video on You Tube. The video has since received over 6.5 million hits. United Airlines contacted Carroll and attempted settlement in exchange for pulling the video. Naturally, his response was, “Good luck with that one, pal.”
Taylor Guitars sent Carroll two new custom guitars in appreciation for product recognition resulting from the video that has led to a sharp increase in orders.
