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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, September 20, 2010 - 12:22 pm
Mak1 don't forget me this year. I will meet you on 95 south
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Monday, September 20, 2010 - 1:38 pm
Good idea, Colord! How could I forget you, Dfen?
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, September 20, 2010 - 2:28 pm
I got a reply from the hosts' producer. They will check it out. I'm sure they/he will -- especially with Jeff bein' a home boy.
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Wendy
Member
07-16-2009
| Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 3:26 pm
That was a good idea Colordeagua. I hope they follow up and check it out. I won't be able to watch the Rachel Ray show tomorrow but I am sure someone will post it on youtube. Like this youtube of Jordan explaining that Jeff has to spray his butt after he goes to the bathroom. Chelsea was cracking up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOiup0QIMCI&feature=player_embedded
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 10:01 am
Jeff is on about Day 60 now and is still in India - I am loving his videos!
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Wendy
Member
07-16-2009
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 4:24 pm
He tweeted that he was in the hospital for malaria. Scary.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 4:47 pm
hope he gets better! Poor Jeff Color I'll have to email WGN I think Dean Richards might listen?
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 5:32 pm
Oh wow, Wendy. That's scary news! This afternoon, I watched Day 60 and 61 videos. He was really down on Day 60 after sleeping on the floor for two nights during monsoon season. Once he woke up, he put everything in a better perspective but was anxious to move on. I hope he recovers quickly.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 7:22 pm
How could he ever think about going into that part of the world without antimalaria meds? They cause wild in full color dreams, but that beats malaria!
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 8:11 pm
OH MY GOSH....didn't check in on him today. I didn't think he looked well the last couple eps but figured it was exhaustion. In one of the last vids he had gone 2 days w/no sleep and wasn't in great accomodations. But he was so gracious about it! I was relieved when he got to the place w/the guy w/the hotel and restaurant. Even though far as I know malaria only comes from a mosquito bite, I've wondered about how careful he's being in general. For ex, I did notice he drank the Chai, and I'm certain they didn't use bottled water in it. And so many of the conditions he's been in have been downright scary. Pre-trip I recall a vid of him getting a gazillion shots and meds, but not sure you can prevent everything 100% with those can you? Hope this doesn't end this wonderful trip. He's been doing such a GREAT job, and appeared to be having the time of his life. Anyone know what the modern recovery time is for malaria? Then again, hope he's getting modern care where he is!! I was really hoping he would head to Israel, Greece and then onto the mainstream European countries. Anyway sure hope he's getting proper treatment and recovers soon!! I'm sooo sorry to hear this. I just love him to pieces!
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 8:24 pm
OMG, he did NOT say he was in the hospital for malaria...PLEASE let's be careful in posting things accurately. I'll copy EXACTLY what Jeff himself said 8 hours ago; "Let me retract last comment 4 a few days since I just got back from the hospital. Precautionary Malaria test my fever/chills got pretty bad!" Then his most recent post from 7 min ago says "Feeling a bit better this morning, thanks 4 the well wishes. Was gonna try to hit the Bollywood scene today, but I think rest is the answer!" Now those are his EXACT posts and words...so he does NOT have diagnosed malaria, thank goodness. Seems he was ill, went to the hospital and they ran A PRECAUTIONARY TEST!!! That is VERY different from being IN the hospital and being diagnosed w/something!!! Sure hope he just picked up a bug, and combined with his exhaustion it all caught up with him. He sounded a bit better, and I'm sure he'll keep us informed. Please let's be careful to get the information accurate. I'm sure folks mean well, but I nearly had a heart attack and this is how rumors get started!! PHEW! (hopefully)
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 8:49 pm
Well I have yet more interesting info, though not on his health. I was trying to Google his ATWFF twitter and stumbled on this site. It's a written and vlog page of the couple he stayed w/in India who had the radio station. Very interesting read (and watch). Her Mom is the huge fan (or so she says lol) and interesting details about his stay. You can check it out at; http://kennyanderica.com/just-for-fun/around-the-world-for-free/ And be sure to click the link early on to see her post from the day before. It's where the Vlog is where she explains stuff. But one thing confused me a LOT! Isn't Jeff just traveling with hmmmm think it's Zsolt? She says he's with TWO CBS crew/camera guys. Wonder what is up with that?? It was around the time he did Rachel Ray, so maybe the 2nd guy had something to do with that? Pure speculation, dunno (and I still haven't seen that piece I need to hunt it down). Well off to finish reading wante to post. And DANG just found that Twitter of his and saw I could have just cut and paste his Tweets that I copies word for word from the ATWFF web site!!! Well that would have been too dang simple lol. Off to bookmark it too. Here's the link if anyone wants this easier way to read his updates than on the web site; http://twitter.com/atwfflive I'm sure he'll keep us accurately posted on his health!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 7:25 pm
As of this afternoon nothing up on his videos about health issues - in fact he was chowing down on some Portugese food that looked amazing! I wanted to shove him off that chair at the table and take his place -
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Erica_jones
Member
09-26-2010
| Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 9:49 pm
Hey Guys- I stumbled on to this forum and thought I would answer the questions in Lurknomore's post personally. I am the Erica that Jeff, Zsolt and Josh came to stay with in Bangalore India. Yes, there are 3 of them. Josh was an addition to the team in Japan. They have 2 camera guys so that while one is editing, the other can be filming. Giving us more of what we want- webisodes! My Mom is the BB fan (she even has the 24 hour lived feed!). I have never watched a full episode but I am a huge AR fan and loved watching Jeff and Jordan while they were on there. My Mom is the reason I knew anything about this. She was the one that sent me the info and convinced me to create a profile on CBS.com asking him to come and stay. I figured I would never hear back- but strange things happen. The Rachel Ray segment was taped at my house. My cat almost interrupted the whole thing. You can see Jeff crack a smile and look to the side near the end of the segment- that was when Ravi tried to make her Daytime TV debut. He had a bit of a stomach bug. I had the same thing. I felt kind of fluish and it took a few days to shake here... but I wasn't sleeping on the floor in a room with a hole in the roof after getting no sleep on a packed bus. I was at home comfy in my bed. They were just taking precautions about the malaria. He just has a stomach bug. And it wasn't from the food either- both Josh and Zsolt have eaten pretty much the same things as both Jeff and I so it was most likely something the 2 of us were just lucky enough to 'catch'. It was a great experience having them stay with us. They are fantastic guys and I wish them safe travels home. Make it a great day! Erica
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 3:03 am
WoW Erica...talk about your small cyber worlds, eh? Here we are literally on different sides of the earth, I stumbled on your very interesting blog, then you stumble on our little corner of the reality world. BTW, WELCOME! Thanks so much for clearing stuff up with Jeff's health. And really sorry to hear you got a dose of it too! As well as clearing up the mystery of the 3rd man. Did they say why all of a sudden they added another crew member? I had to laugh when you said how your Mom EVEN has the feeds. If she isn't familiar with our board you should send her over to the BB area. We are pretty hard core BB addicts, most of us have the feeds, and many of us have been here since BB1, though we pick up new friends along the way! She sounds like she would fit right in! Hope this was as fun an adventure for you and your gang as it looked, annoying stomach bug notwithstanding! Sure wish Rachel Ray would put that segment online as I missed it! Well thanks for the info. Always love when it's first hand...then you know it's accurate! I was going to ask you something but I have less than no clue. It's the middle of the night here and the pouring rain woke me up and I couldn't fall back asleep. But I'm quite punchy! But figured I could stay for one post! I know my question! I've wondered if Zsolt, and now Josh is it?, pay for their stuff as they go?? After all, I can see offering to take care of Jeff on his wonderful adventure, but seems it might be a little much if it's all of them. Hope that's ok to ask...don't want to cross any lines but seems innocent enough. I've been curious about that since the trip started. BTW Tnt, on the ATWF site, Jeff has pics up of him in a hospital bed where he had labs done. But nope, no new videos. I thought he looked a bit pale but otherwise basically ok. Sure hope he, and our new pal Erica here, are well on the way to recovery. Now I'm well on my way back to sleep!!!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 6:05 am
Hi Erica, as Lurk said it is good to read firsthand info. I passed links to the CBS site and your blogs and photos on to Steve & Johnnie's producer at WGN AM radio in Chicago. He hasn't replied to me that they're actually interested in hooking up with Jeff or you. They don't know what they're missing. Get / stay well, you and Jeff on his travels.
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Wendy
Member
07-16-2009
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 3:22 pm
Hi Erica. Thank you so much for clearing that up for us. I am glad you are all feeling better and it wasn't as bad as we thought it was. It is also very generous of you to agree to host them. Kudos to you.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 7:32 am
JEFF ON RACHAEL RAY SHOW
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Erica_jones
Member
09-26-2010
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 9:03 am
I will totally have to turn my mom on to your site. She is a die hard fan and I am sure she would love to be part of your chats on here. Jeff is NOT allowed to pay for anything but the camera crew can. They can and have paid for things especially when the stay gets long and expensive like it did with Supan in Bangkok. They had to be there extra time for their India visas to come through and it really wasn't fair for Supan to pay for all of them all the time. I think at one point Supan called Jeff "An expensive pet". The night we went to Hard Rock we paid for part of the overall bill and Josh paid for another part. They pay for their tickets to places as well. I don't know when and how they arrange all of that but I do know that Jeff is not allowed to pay for anything at all on his trip. Nothing. Not even a bag of chips on the train. From what I understand they added Josh to the team when they figured out that they needed to do as many segments or more than the last go around. They turned that into a TV show and this will likely be that too. But minus 50 plus days. So add another camera/ editing guy to the mix and they can have extra time and footage from more days. Great to talk to you all- cheers! Erica
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 12:08 pm
"An expensive pet." LOL !
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 1:05 pm
In his latest episode Jeff says that he had a few days of stomach problems. Not that unusual when you travel, and certainly not when you travel in third world countries -
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Wendy
Member
07-16-2009
| Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:53 am
LOL @ expensive pet. Supan sounds like such an awesome person.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 2:46 pm
I got caught up with the last four episodes today - Jordan is going to be joining him in Italy when he goes there to meet his mom's family!
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Chere
Member
08-10-2005
| Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 6:54 am
Jeff and Jordan arrive in his mother's hometown of Soliera to begin their romantic Italian weekend getaway Episode 45: Day 80 http://tinyurl.com/2976yxg
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Chere
Member
08-10-2005
| Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 7:05 am
Italy photos http://tinyurl.com/23rj6rl http://tinyurl.com/2fwx8wg http://tinyurl.com/24f7b2x
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