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.........About 2 years ago I stopped for gas, ran the card and pumped gas then went into the store for a coke, I came out and ran into a friend started talking, said good -bye, got in the car and took off.... forgetting about the gas hose still attached which broke off!! Opps!!

Happy Birthday, Matt! Sweet Sixteen! .........Crap! I can't even remember my 16th!! Haha! Have a good one!

...........It is getting very close, as I said before prior commitment will only allow me to meet people on Friday night, as I fly out Saturday morning. Has anyone booked rooms here yet???

....... I thought Lovecraft was also a master of cliffhangers!!

...........Right, he never acknowledged Gonzales question about a relationship between Dirk and Jim. As a good lawyer he protected his client, he could truthfully say Dirk wasn't gay, but cleverly omitting that Dirk was bi-sexual.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RILBUR!! ...........Hope you had a good one!!

...........I don't think Bridget's husband was alive when the Atlantis came along, but was living on the Aries for a while soon after his daughters death. Bridget could have had a compartment built on the Atlantis, but Trevor has been over every inch of that boat, I'm sure he would of found it and not built his own.

.........Maybe, but if the answers lie within Australia I have a feeling he is not being truthful here!!! (Aussies and goats you know) Yet, I have no doubt that Dirk is the father of Trevor,he passed off 'gene' of the gayness one. Number two I cannot see Rachel in an adulterous relationship that Bridget was not aware of. Bridget was attune to everything that was going on after all, well maybe except the hidden compartment that her late husband installed aboard the Aries. Graeme may be right, but then again everything points to Australia, making him suspect!!!

............You know what, I cannot absolve him of his crimes, but I do have a bit of admiration for him. This kid broke out of a halfway house and eluded the law for two years before finally getting caught in the Bahamas. Again don't take me wrong, he is a criminal and needs to be adjucated, but for him to elude the law for years is a mastery of his skills as a criminal. I read that he was a thief as early as 12 years old and continued until sentencing at age 14, where he escaped at age 16 and eluded the police for 2 years. Not condoning his actions at all, but this is kinda of like a modern 'Catch Me If You Can' escapee of a criminal persona.

.............Good point on the statue of limitation of federal racketeering! But in the narration it said........'she and Dirk had taken title to Atlantis in the name of their son, Trevor.' Is this another clue? It was easy money and Rachel knew she’d need it....

............Good question!

............Ah yes, your evil characters sometimes show some humanity, like the Scar giving the engineer the stuffed kangaroo! Touching really!

............Very interesting chapter! We now know that Rachel was being investigated by the Feds. being set-up by Bridget. Too bad there was not any co-operation between the Feds. and the local police, it could have shed a new light into the investigation. Great chapter! CJ

..........A cool 104 today!! Las Vegas, Nv.

.........Yes a Kaboom is somewhere in sight here, but I think Trevor will be disarming there! Hmmm a volcano perhaps! Nah, already done. Nuke?, nah same, island with dropped ordinance? Came close, but no cigar. How about a very good shooting match later on!! We already have seen Trevor's skills with a pistol, will he need them to take out say an outboard engine, on say a troublesome boat?

.............Shish-ka-bob chicken and beef with terriyaki pineapple chunks, red bell pepper and onion, plus grilled mushrooms, onion, red bell pepper, yellow and green squash and dessert. I had planned on doing some deep fried shrimp wrapped in bacon for the guest, but the list got too long!!!!

.............Poor Dirk is so messed up he has become a two-fisted drinker, gin& tonic and beer at the same time!! Bridget is so convinced that Dirk murdered Rachel, but why is she so concerned with Trevor finding the Aries?? Something doesn't add up here, both Dirk and Bridget do not want Trevor to find or look for the Aries in the Bahamas!! Another mystery left for us! The answer is in Australia, if Trevor makes it there!!

.....Easy answer for me, save the good one! You already know you can only save one and the other one is a psychopath.

...........Hmmm! The only story that CJ wrote that concurs with that is FTL, all the others had height experiences in them! :lol:

...............The theory loses its credibility when one remembers it is a goats trail Trevor & Joel are on. Surely a frog would have mined lily pads instead.

..... I believe Bridget's plan is to learn from Lisa & Joel's anything she can about Trevor's whereabouts, she gave them the key to her 'ear' guest house. But being a misunderstood older lady may preclude her from any crime!!

Happy Birthday,Wen! ...............Have a great one!!!

...............Ah, I remember being strongly attracted to a blond surfer looking guy in Jr. High, the type Greek G-D's made up, turned out no one blessed his brains!! He was very immature, slightly vulgar and had the mannerisms of a trash dog. So my vanity meter was way off-scale here, the attraction was only physical. That tells volumes of my own maturity, the shame of it all is that to my knowledge he never married!!! Hmmm, maybe my gaydar meter was working!

I quite agree with the nominations, but I think Bridget really believes that the Aries went down, thus Trevor finding it would dissolve Dirks involvement if discovered that it was not sabotaged. Bridget has said time and time again she believes that Dirk killed his wife. But if he didn't and as alluded much earlier in the chapters Dirk almost telling Trevor that the danger was real and that 'the Aries was not ... (there?). Bridget has now made her prejudice known and thinks by killing Trevor the heat will be off her for Arnold' s demise. The Aries is not there, and probably is in Australia, the question/mystery is why the faked death of Rachel and the fake sinking of the Aries? What did Rachel know? The seven years statue still bothers me, I can't figure that one out. Australia is still the key!

.................... Spruce tree............(why was I waiting for something else to 'pop' in that survey?)