Comments on: World Surf Tour 2007

By: johnny deep

johnny deep — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:16:08 +0000

actually i am gay and i find that comment rather homophobic.

By: Ben Ellis

Ben Ellis — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:50:20 +0000

Hey Charlie,

Yes I didn’t quite think it would be that much when I planned it, costs were something like this:

All flights, hostels etc – Â£3000
Insurance – Â£150
Transfers – Â£100
Car hire in LA, San Fran, NZ, Bali, DC – Â£500
2 new surfboards, coffin bag, 1 wetsuit, board shorts, shoes, t-shirts etc – Â£1500
Fiji holiday – Â£800
Bali holiday – Â£300
Spending money on food, drink and partying – Â£3000

Probably missed a few things, but that’s about it. I thought, well I earned the money, and ain’t staying in any sh*t pits, so do it in style, and that’s what I did and it was amazing, and that’s what I will do again next year.

Peace…

PS: The women were free, well alomst, you always nearly have to buy them a drink or two, sometimes it was the other way around 🙂

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:39:44 +0000

NINE GRAND ON A FOUR MONTH HOLIDAY!!!!!!

How on earth did you fritter away that amount of money in such a short period of time? Most people could go travelling for at least a couple of years on that amount.

Are all your surfboards lined with diamond encrusted platinum? Did you have a private helicopter fly you to the reef? A bevy of international models hired to throw rose petals at your feet?

I apologise, it is your money after all and you’re fully entitles to spend it however you wish. I’m just a little dumbstruck that you worked so hard and saved up so much to spend such a short period of time away from home. I take it that you could only afford to go for 4 months because you had to come back and pay the mortgage?

By: Sully

Sully — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:26:34 +0000

Ben, you smell even the hint of critisism and you charge like a bull to a red rag, be calm my brother! Johnny Deep has a point, your travelling extravagence is costing us ozone, I suggest you drive overland the 5,000 miles from rural essex to Baja in a clapped out VW van which has been converted to run on used chip fat, would make for an interesting documentary and talking of Essex, would give you that Harlow scent.

By: johnny deep

johnny deep — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:05:31 +0000

sorry. was forgetting that rural essex was a deprived area.

By: Ben Ellis

Ben Ellis — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:33:04 +0000

Haha, nice to see that “Jonny Deep” is back with another quality comment.

Good point, planes do burn up quite a bit of carbon huh! Oh well, do a little here, lose a little there I guess…

At last check the Â£9000 i spent on my last surf tour was earned by me working f*cking hard, no parents helping, no credit card, just me earning a crust. Oh I work from home too, so I don’t even burn any carbon getting to work, I don’t have any lights on in the day, I don’t print off anything, everything is digital…

Also my parents aren’t wealthy…

If you are going to post here, at least have the balls to write your own name, rather than posting the odd thing under a gay psydonym…

Peace

By: johnny deep

johnny deep — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:25:29 +0000

In the light of yesterday’s post, just wondering how you intend to offset the carbon emissions from your journey? Oh it must be great to have such a blinkered world view… (and wealthy parents)