I stumbled up the hill back to the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad. The Hab was intact.
And this kind of ties into what we talked about, that forward-thinking concept. We have a 21-year-old crested porcupine coming out right now. This is Pokey. Appropriately named, right?
I had to think about even taking a step. I'm like about 29 athletes just crested the and I'm back with Frank and Noel.
Well, the tsunami wave showed up at the precise wave height he warned, about the same time he said it would happen. It rushed in shore at 435 miles an hour, crested the wall, and destroyed all the backup power at Fukushima, leading to the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. 19,000 people died in Japan, and many of them tragically died when they went to tsunami evacuation spots that were too low.
I'd known everyone since birth practically in sixth grade and moved into a large Public School the girls at this school were way different than the girls that I'd known before they had hair that crested and glistening waves around their faces they wore blue eyes Shadow they used swear words and on Monday mornings they
Birds are flying in every direction, and they're flying at different speeds and different heights, and they're all just-- we had all kinds of species. Thick-billed murres, common murres, least auklets, crested auklets, tufted puffin, horned puffin, just so many different kinds of species.
This is a true story. Literally a week later, I quit my job, and my buddy, whom I'd been training with, moved up here to Crested Butte, Colorado, where we trained for an additional six months for five hours a day at 10,000 feet altitude to get into the best physical condition that we could.
Endless calisthenics. Brutal beatings. I did this for an entire year while I was working in finance, and then as you know, we moved up to Crested Butte, Colorado,
And we were playing these festivals. And as we were writing these songs, we'd record parts of the songs in, like, a flower field in Crested Butte, Colorado, or like an old-- Train tunnel. --train tunnel in Snoqualmie, Washington State, so all these interesting places where there are not only beautiful scenery but also these,
best for their longevity, and 21 years old for a porcupine is pretty darn old. This particular species is found in Africa and in India, and so there's the African and Indian crested porcupines. They are a bit different than our North American species, of course.