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ACCOMPLISHED:
1) Bought 'Following the Equator' - haven't started reading it yet
2) Went to Key West which includes the following:

- stumbled over to Louie's Backyard
- went down to Faustos and bought a sweatshirt (i don't like chocolate milk )
- went down to Capt. Tony's to get out of the heat (met the capt)
- visited the Chart Room Bar
- ate at Blue Heaven
- strolled down the avenue that's known as A1A

3) Went sailing
4) Bought a guitar
5) Blew out a flip-flop (seriously, but it was by accident)

ON MY LIST:
1) Read 'Don't Stop the Carnival' and some Hemingway
2) Visit Mobile, Pascagoula, and Gulf Shores
3) Looking forward to this one: I'm going to "sail on to Cane Garden Bay" and "watch the lights of St. Thomas lie twenty miles west".
4) Move to Florida

Carolina Girl, is it jst like in the song? What doea the writting actually say?

krusin1 wrote:Pretty sure it's not just me, so 'fess up.

What have you done... mainly because you read/heard/saw that Jimmy did it?


Hmmm.... may end up with quite a list here...

1. Going to Key West. (Next Weekend! Hurricanes stay away!)
2. Surfed.
3. Read "Don't Stop the Carnival."


So...?

1) Read DSTC
2) Read all of Jimmy's books. Damn, they're good!
3) Ate Margaritaville Shrimp. Warning, that Jamaican Jerk Shrimp is touched with the fire!
4) Consumed Margaritas while hanging out at Air Margaritaville at Sun 'n Fun last April.

Started drinking Red Stripe and Simpatico beers.

5) Blew out a flip-flop (seriously, but it was by accident)

Me too, they have been to 5 JB concerts. I wont throw them away.

parrot1 wrote:5) Blew out a flip-flop (seriously, but it was by accident)

Me too, they have been to 5 JB concerts. I wont throw them away.

I've always wondered how anyone actually "Blows out" a flip-flop?

Sidew13 wrote:Went BACK to Key West, discovered JB on my First Look
Drank my first Corona
Bought every CD (because he made it)
Bought every book (because he wrote it)

I forgot...
Read Don't Stop The Carnival
Read Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Going to Pascagoula, MS ; Gulf Shores, AL (Lulu's) New Orleans, LA (Cafe Du Monde) in November
HAVING THE CHANCE TO MEET MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE FROM BN

Lets see...............................

1 Went to Key West, just to see the sights and his shop/rest.
2 Went to South America (costa rica and belize among them)
3 Visited Florida as many time as I could - Someday I'll live there or on an island.
4 Adopted the Rita and/or Corona as my official drinks
5 Blew out many a flip flop (broke the center strap and fell down because of it)
6 Practice what I Preach (regaae jams)

lol That list is longer I'm sure. I think that Bubba persuaded me to realize that these things could come true if you tried hard in life to be sucessful and have fun at the same time. I have a ton of stuff I am going to do someday, inspired by songlines that fuel my childhood daydreams.

Never stop dreaming!

I got a tattoo (margaritaville logo of course!!)

I went to Key West (three times)

I adopted a Manatee

I guess that's about it.

FarsideCobbPH wrote:Carolina Girl, is it jst like in the song? What doea the writting actually say?

When we saw it in '87, it said "I ate the last mango in Paris, I took the last plane out of Saigon, I took the first fast boat to China, and there's still so much to be done." (No Jimmy in the line, that's the only difference.)

It was over the door on the inside of the men's room, written in BOLD black strokes. I had my hubster stand watch while I stepped inside to read it. (He saw it first and told me it was there.)

I think I even took a picture. Gotta go check...

Wow Krusin, great question! I was 17 when CILCIA was released and that was when I became a Parrot Head. Since then here are just a few things I've done because of an influence by Jimmy and/or Parrot Heads: Followed a dream (or two) and had them come true; Followed a few that didn't come true but had no regrets; bought my retirement home in the "Little Lattitudes" (it's just south of the Tropic of Cancer); bought a place on Maui; Learned to sail and crewed on a racing yacht for several years; Will race the Trans-Pac in 2007 (missed it this year); and probably the most important, I try to make a real effort to give back-to make this world just a little better than it was yesterday.

carolinagirl wrote:

FarsideCobbPH wrote:Carolina Girl, is it jst like in the song? What doea the writting actually say?

When we saw it in '87, it said "I ate the last mango in Paris, I took the last plane out of Saigon, I took the first fast boat to China, and there's still so much to be done." (No Jimmy in the line, that's the only difference.)

It was over the door on the inside of the men's room, written in BOLD black strokes. I had my hubster stand watch while I stepped inside to read it. (He saw it first and told me it was there.)

I think I even took a picture. Gotta go check...

In April 0f 04 the walls were painted totally white with no writing.
The bartender said something about the health inspector making them paint it every so often.

Damn, I could write a book.

1. Joined the Navy and seen the world from the deck of a ship.
2. Trips to Key West and MOTM.
3. Took up surfing at 35.
4. Bought a boat.
5. Raising my son's Parrotheads.
6. Moved to Florida / Georgia border.
7. Rode out my share Hurricanes on land and sea.
8. Have got every CD and read all Jimmy's books along with Don't stop the carnival.
9. My wardrobe is Board shorts, Tropical shirt and flip flops.
10. Got my Captains License.
11. Drank enough Rum and Tequila to float a Battleship.
12. Come to think of it - I've had a damn good life and had a hell of alot of fun over the years...

sonofabeach wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

FarsideCobbPH wrote:Carolina Girl, is it jst like in the song? What doea the writting actually say?

When we saw it in '87, it said "I ate the last mango in Paris, I took the last plane out of Saigon, I took the first fast boat to China, and there's still so much to be done." (No Jimmy in the line, that's the only difference.)

It was over the door on the inside of the men's room, written in BOLD black strokes. I had my hubster stand watch while I stepped inside to read it. (He saw it first and told me it was there.)

I think I even took a picture. Gotta go check...

In April 0f 04 the walls were painted totally white with no writing.
The bartender said something about the health inspector making them paint it every so often.

Some things just shouldn't be changed....

sonofabeach wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

FarsideCobbPH wrote:Carolina Girl, is it jst like in the song? What doea the writting actually say?

When we saw it in '87, it said "I ate the last mango in Paris, I took the last plane out of Saigon, I took the first fast boat to China, and there's still so much to be done." (No Jimmy in the line, that's the only difference.)

It was over the door on the inside of the men's room, written in BOLD black strokes. I had my hubster stand watch while I stepped inside to read it. (He saw it first and told me it was there.)

I think I even took a picture. Gotta go check...

In April 0f 04 the walls were painted totally white with no writing.
The bartender said something about the health inspector making them paint it every so often.

oh sure, the writing on the walls is against health code, but the dollars and underwear on the ceilings and walls is okay........ Wow, ain't government grand???

Maybe I am just a goof...but absolutely nothing. Ther day u start doing something because someone else has...well not a good thing.. To quote a great man..."I live my own adventures".

SchoonerWharf wrote:Maybe I am just a goof...but absolutely nothing. Ther day u start doing something because someone else has...well not a good thing.. To quote a great man..."I live my own adventures".

nice screen name and quote.
Everyone gets their ideas or inspiration from somewhere is how I look at it.
Most things don't just pop in your head out of the blue, something usually inspires it.

SchoonerWharf wrote:Maybe I am just a goof...but absolutely nothing. Ther day u start doing something because someone else has...well not a good thing.. To quote a great man..."I live my own adventures".

While I respect what you're saying, I don't think following other's lead is always a bad thing... "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

sonofabeach wrote:

SchoonerWharf wrote:Maybe I am just a goof...but absolutely nothing. Ther day u start doing something because someone else has...well not a good thing.. To quote a great man..."I live my own adventures".

nice screen name and quote.
Everyone gets their ideas or inspiration from somewhere is how I look at it.
Most things don't just pop in your head out of the blue, something usually inspires it.

I agree absolutely! Things that I have accomplished or attempted to accomplish and missed in my life were not inspired solely by Jimmy. Here are a few others: My dad, Beryl Markham, Mark Twain, Tex Johnston, my grandfather, my third grade teacher, George Harrison, Charles Lindbergh...My point is, S. O' Beach is bang on. Inspiration usually begins from some external source. Your success depends on the execution and effort to reach the goal created by the inspiration no matter the source of the inspiration.