BITWRATHPLOOB World Tour

Adios, Señor BITWRATHPLOOB!
erik posted in Departures on September 10th, 2007

Twenty-three days ago, the BITWRATHPLOOB arrived in Spain. During his short visit, he got to eat some tapas, visit the Guggenheim Museum, bathe in the sun and crystal clear waters at the beach, and even run with the bulls. That sounds like an adequate Spanish vacation to me.

Let’s take a quick photo memory tour back over his visit…

Like an overachieving parasite, it’s time for the BITWRATHPLOOB to move to a new host. He will now go north, and a little east, towards a small town that the Romans called Londinium. The next Keeper of the ‘Ploob (KP) is a friend and ex-colleague of mine named Carl Hubbers. Hubbers is a bit of a world traveller himself, and it just so happens that the BITWRATHPLOOB is in luck. Due to an unfortunate congenital condition (being born in New Zealand), Hubbers is a rugby fan. For those of you outside Her Majesty’s Commonwealth, the 7th Rugby World Cup is currently taking place in Europe. In the coming 6 weeks, Hubbers is planning on attending games in Lyon, Toulouse, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Paris, and he has agreed to take the BITWRATHPLOOB with him on these journeys under one condition: that the BITWRATHPLOOB support the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks (not as racist as it sounds). As a result, the BITWRATHPLOOB will be able to check off 4 countries in 6 weeks with one host. Ideally, the ‘Ploob would spend only two or three weeks with each host, but I think that exceptions can and should be made for such great offers.

The only bad, dark, horrible, terrifying part of this plan is that the one weekend that Hubbers and the BITWRATHPLOOB will not be traveling to see a rugby match, they will be here in Spain attending my wedding. Isn’t that ironic, Alanis. Hopefully we can keep the BITWRATHPLOOB out of the photo album so I don’t have to explain what a bucktoothed rope-armed troll-haired pantsless wood bear is to my grandchildren.

¡Buen viaje, Señor BITWRATHPLOOB! ¡Y no vuelvas nunca jamás!

Oh, and we’ve got an inventory page now, showing what little treasures the BITWRATHPLOOB has picked up in his travels.