Ted,
I am disappointed to report our efforts are being thwarted by many anoraks everywhere and I have evidence of the bureaucrats trying to monitor our activities and find our secret locations, in addition I have had to divert our team to a major discovery of immence importance, but first let me tell you what has happened since I last reported in:
On departing the auto electric shop in the Nova with a repaired 8 track we listened to the remaining portion of your tape of mission instructions, but unfortunately then the tape self destructed and our 8 track player went with it. (so no Hendrix or Purple to listen to on the trip!!)
Being the proffessionals we are, we decided to fully prepare for our future arrival in Quebec and to "hit the water running" so to speak, by donning our full wet suits and diving gear, we were undetered by the fact that at this stage we had not yet departed LA and still had to cover half a continent! in the Nova.
As already reported we used a clever technique of driving in reverse to confuse any one who may be attempting to follow us, and in fact many people were fooled by our techniques.
We blended into the throng of local commuters with many thinking they knew us, I was surprised by the number of people who drove allong side yelling to us
"Hey Dick, what do you think you are up to?" obviously we bore great resemblance to their friend Dick!
I was concerned UNESCO and the US Navy agents were tracking us when a State Patrol pulled us over on the Interstate, but the Troopers claimed their main concern related to us driving backwards with full diver face plate and respirators in place!
We were permitted to travel on unheeded, after removal of such , and a promise to drive forwards, and suspecting this was simply an attempt to allow us to be followed to our secret destination we complied and drove off until out of view, then quickly returned to our ruse of travelling backwards!!!.
We were making good speed in reverse, (averaging 40mph and Nova at 2500rpm in full reverse) when the Nova began to overheat, this may have been due to the fact that we had the aircon on full blast, as we were all darn hot in our full rubber suits.
We stopped to fill gas at a station I will not mention for obvious security reasons when I overheard two Anoraks talking of a Sunderland Flying Boat down in a lake somewhere near Polk City, well Ted, you know I have a soft spot for those big aircraft and it brought a stirring in my loins just at the thought to have the chance to find and lift one again!!!
After buying a tyre tube repair kit to repair the hole that had been punched in the crotch of my diving suit I made the executive decision to turn the car around (well still travelling in reverse,? I am not sure how you describe that manouvre?) and to race off to Polk City to find this allusive missing sunken Sunderland in the lake, (I hope to have side scans available early next morning!!)
In regard to the other projects unfortunately the Zlotnies to USD exchange rate has collapsed and the Quadzillion dollars have now slumped to $4.65 in total value, leaving little money to cover DHL shipping costs, and the brown paper bags, I will advise of continguency plans in my next report.
However I will be proceeding with raising this Sunderland as soon as I find it down in the lake in Polk City, I understand there is a big collector named "Weeks" down there somewhere, He might be interested in funding the search for a 50/50 share in its recovery - otherwise I will have to put it up on my website at
http://CONNIVETHEWORLD.com , or perhaps Ebay or Barnstormers!! to get sponsors!
p.s. "hey call me paranoid or what about my secret locations!!" but check the security of your pc, I just have this strange feeling all our private email communications are somehow being monitored and viewed by others
until then this is Agent Con Nive signing off