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  1. 06-22-2020, 09:01 PM #1
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    Stupid stuff I'm proud of doing

    1980 While on the north eastern side of the Greek Island of Corfu we noticed that there was a land mass on the other side of the straight. A quick look at the map told us it was Communist Albania. There was only one thing two California Surfer guys with a couple of shots of Ouzo in them could do

    Invade

    The straight is about 2 miles wide. We were excellent ocean swimmers so off we went. An hour later we stormed the beach at Albania. Whooped it up for a minute or two then got our butts back into the water.

    We were about a half mile offshore when the Albanian Patrol Boat rounded the point to the north of us. We quickly switched to a very low profile side stroke to stay inconspicuous as possible. They passed between us and the Albanian shore then rounded the next point and were out of sight. We picked up our swim pace to get us past mid channel after that.

    We had a good laugh once we walked up onto the Greek Beach. it was fun two hour swim. As I remember we got pretty hammered partying at a club celebrating that night. Hate to think what would have happened if the Patrol Boat had spotted us
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    I don't know if it was stupid or not but you must have been in the hell of a good shape. But that doesn't surprise me being the bike riding Iron Man that you are
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    I smuggled myself INTO Mexico once.

    And a bandit jump into a park where my friends were celebrating a birthday.
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    I don't like to admit it but I'm not real proud of the stupid stuff I did
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  5. 06-23-2020, 12:49 PM #5
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    Dave there is plenty of really stupid stuff that I did that I'm not proud of, trust me on that one except for the fact that by pure luck I did survive them.
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  6. 06-23-2020, 01:00 PM #6
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    I would guess most of us have.

    I have to admit to saying: "hold my beer and watch this" far more often than was prudent
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