Departing soon for Northern Tier

I had all these plans to reignite this blog by tracking our training for Northern Tier. Ah, it would have been brilliant. People would have been inspired to get up out of their lounges and off their sofas to head out into the wilderness. Didn't happen. So that's the bad news. The good news is that I'm doing my final packing and we leave on Monday.

We catch a flight at the crack o' dawn on Monday morning and arrive in Minneapolis a bit after noon, high noon. This "we" is a group of six teen-aged boys and two teen-aged adults; or at least we have teen-aged dreams of wilderness adventure. We'll toss our stuff into our rental cars and head to the Mall of America for lunch. After that, we head up to the US Hockey Hall of Fame Museum. We spend the night at a warmed-up ski center and on Tuesday go to visit the Soudan Underground Mine State Park to tour an iron mine 2,341 feet down. After lunch, we arrive at Charles L. Sommers Northern Tier Canoe Base. After that, we're on our own. We start in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in northern Minnesota but we quickly paddle through Prairie Portage into the Quetico. It will be a while, but we'll return to the US and then head on home.

See you on the flip side.

TRASFER OF US$25,000.000.00 FROM FIRST NATIONAL BANK

I have received this invitation to great wealth. Being a generous person, I hereby decline the personal benefit of selfish actions and share this knowledge freely with the rest of the world. In the unlikely event that you should decide to partake, to reply back [sic], and become wealthy, please remember the small people.

And herewith follow the words of Mr. David Brown and TRASFER (david123kgobudi@rediffmail.com).

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FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA

FROM: MR. DAVID BROWN

Tell: +27- 78-773-6361

E-mail: davidbrownsa2010@gmail.com

Dear: Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I will introduce myself as Mr. David Brown, the accountant staff in the accounts management section of the above firm here in the South Africa.

This is the detail of what I want you to assist me in doing, One of our accounts with holding balance of US$25,000.000.00 (Twenty Five Million United States Dollars) has been dormant and has not been operated for the past four (9) years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account, a foreigner by name (Mr. Kurt Kahle) died in July, 2000, For more Information see BBC News on:-http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

And since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds. I have secretly discussed this matter with a senior official of this bank and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after due processes have been followed.

Noted that in percentage you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer while 65% will be for my partners and me. Please you have been advised to keep top secret and noted that this transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act. On receipt of your response I will furnish you with detailed clarification as it relates to this mutual benefit transaction, I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible if you are interested and with your trust. And also furnish me with the following information’s.

For us to proceed, you have to urgently send to me the following information’s because this are the information required from the lawyer who will obtain all legal documents needed to establish you as the next of kin and legal beneficiary of the funds, To get the required approval for the release and transfer of the fund to your bank account.

YOUR FULL NAMES...................

YOUR TEL/FAX NUMBERS.........

YOUR COUNTRY....................….

YOUR OCCUPATION..............….

YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS…………

YOUR STREET ADDRESS………..

YOUR AGE…………………………..

SEX………………………………..

As soon as i receive the above information’s i will contact the lawyer who will obtain all the legal clarify approval document under your name.

GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU REPLY BACK.

Mr. MR. DAVID BROWN

Tell: + 27-78-773-6361

E-mail: davidbrownsa2010@gmail.com