good morning. woke up at 2:45am and here comes my jetlag. i spent the last 3 hours online at maps and information for my next trip. there’s a lot of things going on in this world and i’m ready for a new experience. where i will go? i still don’t know and won’t know till the day i leave. but i have 2 destinations on my mind now and one is surf, and the other is play. what a tough decision because i want to do both.
remember when the navy ship ran aground on the reef outside sand island in hawaii? well, they had to pay $8M for damaging the reef. then they spent millions on fixing the ship after.
then the recent navy ship that ran aground in the philippines, the navy had to pay $1.5M. then this ship had to get demolished for salvage. a multi billion dollar loss to us poor US taxpayers.
i’ve been keeping track on billabong. their shares just dropped 30% to a record low of 53 cents per share. from $14/share in 2007, to 53 cents a share today. a lot of people lost their life savings as billabong just lost another $93.4 million in the past few days. now the once billion dollar company is worth $256 million now. it probably isn’t a bad time to invest. hopefully will hear some better news next week.
well, better get going. jumping in a taxi to the train station, then a train to shonan, then a car to wakayama, then a ferry to shikoku. i should be in shikoku in 24 hours. the long journey begins!
