Occasionally the Monkey has announcements to make.

Monkey Preps for First Asia Visit 11 January 2006
Monkey Ends 2005 Vow of Silence 11 January 2006
Monkey Congratulates Bear Cosmonaut 04 October 2004
Monkey in Canada, Kudos from AFH's Victor 13 September 2004
Ex-Liberian President Seeks Monkey's Help 30 March 2004
Schlepps Sought in Saudi Money-Smuggling Scheme 23 March 2004
Monkeytravel.org Goes Online! 01 February 2004
History Yet To Be Written… 01 February 2004

11 January 2006

The Monkey is pleased to announce the confirmation of his first trip to Asia (excluding his birthplace and his brief trip across the Bosphorus). In June 2006, the Monkey will relocate to Hong Kong, China for a few months. Expect plenty of new photos from the Monkey's Asian odyssey.

The Monkey sojourned in the Sahara in 2005.

11 January 2006

Frequent (and even infrequent) visitors to monkeytravel.org may have noted a mysterious absence of updates to the site during 2005—despite the Monkey traveling to several countries including Tunisia, the Czech Republic, France, and Argentina. The Monkey has kept a low profile in recent times, at least in terms of his web presence. But as 2006 takes off, the Monkey is ready to be more active again. His "vow of silence" is over, and the Monkey is hoping to roll out a stream of new images and anecdotes over the coming months.

04 October 2004

The Monkey was ecstatic to hear about the recent adventures of Terence, a British bear who became perhaps the first ursine cosmonaut in history! Terence soared into space as a co-pilot aboard SpaceShipOne, a leading contender for the Ansari X-Prize. Read the full stories here and here. While Terence's journey does raise the bar a touch in the travel stakes, the Monkey is pleased to welcome Terence back to earth, and congratulates him on his fantastic accomplishment.

13 September 2004

The Monkey recently returned from his first journey to Canada. He visited Québec City and Montréal, where he had a splendid time soaking up the region's fascinating history and multiculturalism. Although the Monkey is still completing his massive update to Argentina (after his April/May trip there), rest assured his efforts are being redoubled to bring the latest pictures from his travels to the site soon.

In other good news, the Monkey received kudos from a new pal at one of his favorite nonprofit organizations. Architecture for Humanity's mascot, Victor, was kind enough to send a photo thanking the Monkey for linking to the group's site. In return, the Monkey thanks AFH and Victor for their reciprocal link, which led to a record number of visits to Monkey's site last week. Cheers, AFH and Victor!

30 March 2004

The Monkey is now able to confirm that on 24 March 2004 he received a confidential communiqué from the ousted Liberian President, Mr. Charles Taylor. The exiled president was attempting to garner the Monkey's covert assistance to transfer $20 million out of a Ghanaian securities fund (full details reproduced below).

While the Monkey's global operations could benefit immensely from the $14 million share he'd receive from the dealings with Mr. Taylor, the Monkey felt compelled to decline the offer for a number of reasons. Foremost among these, the Monkey's ethics would not let him deprive war-torn Liberia of funds that might help in the country's reconstruction and reconciliation. Further, the Monkey was concerned that Mr. Taylor appeared to be sharing an e-mail account with Barrister Remi Abubakar, the lawyer who contacted the Schlepps in a separate effort to export a $48 million family fortune from Saudi Arabia (click here).

Despite not going forward with Mr. Taylor's offer, the Monkey is pleased that his previously limited contact with Africa has been reaching new levels. He looks forward to more fruitful contacts with Africa, and hears that in particular, there are many opportunities to be had in Nigeria.

The Monkey has declined former Liberian President Taylor's lucrative offer.

23 March 2004

The Schlepp bears were recently roused from their hibernation by an urgent message. A Saudi lawyer, Remi Abubakar Esq., contacted the Schlepps by e-mail seeking their participation in a scheme to smuggle a $48 million fortune out of Saudi Arabia (full message reproduced below). After pondering the offer, the Schlepps decided to opt out of the deal and return to their slumber.

Schlepp spokesbear Strelka issued a brief statement: "While we regret the tragedy that has befallen the Ashgar family and are aware that $48 million would ensure us a steady supply of Nutella chocolate spread for the foreseeable future, we harbor doubts as to whether the Saudi authorities would accept us as the Ashgar family's next of kin. If only some Nigerian lawyer would contact we Schlepps about smuggling a large sum of money out of his country…"

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:21:01 -0800
From:  "BARR. REMI ABUBAKAR Esq" <kinga@gh.com>
To:  schlepps@monkeytravel.org
Reply-to:  kinga@gh.com
Subject:  URGENT ATTENTION

ATTN:   THE PRESIDENT/MANAGER
FROM: BARRISTER REMI ABUBAKAR
TELEPHONE: 233 - 20 - 8171956
FAX:  233 - 27 - 612627 
E-MAIL: rado@gh.com

I am Barrister REMI ABUBAKAR the Personal Attorney to Mr. Ali El Ashgar, a national of a country SAUDI, who uses to work with Shell Development Company Lome-Togo. On the 21st of October 2001, my client, his wife and three children were involved in a car accident along the Hillakondji Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several efforts to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the internet, to locate any member of his family to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the security company, where this huge deposit were lodged. Particularly, Security Company where the deceased had a deposit value of $48 Million United States Dollars.

The company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the deposit confiscated within the next three official working months. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for several months now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client to enable us take over the proceeds of this deposit value at $48 Million United States Dollars be paid to you and then you and me will share the money. I do not know if you are in anyway related to him, even if you are not in anyway related to him, I want to know if you will be interested to do the business with me. If you are interested in this proposal, I will want us to have a meeting to enable us agree on the modalities to do the business and the sharing ratio and the method to carry out the operation.

Above all the meeting will afford us the opportunity to know ourselves and to know the roles to be played by any of us. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I required is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. You have to assure me of your honesty and sincerity that you will not sit on the fund when it is finally claimed to enable us forge ahead immediately.

Please, get in touch with me through this phone number or e-mail above.

Best regards,


Barr. Remi Abubakar Esq.

Could the Schlepps be the legitimate next of kin of a Saudi millionaire?

1 February 2004

The Monkey is pleased to announce the launch of his website, monkeytravel.org. Commissioned in April 2002 by the Monkey, the site has been in development for 19 months.

Within these pages, the visitor can learn more about the Monkey's globetrotting travels, his encounters with numerous cultures, and his efforts at promoting global understanding. In addition to the country-specific pages, there are sections dedicated to the Monkey's diplomatic efforts, a plethora of tongue-in-cheek fake Monkey pictures, and even highlights from the travels of his cuddly friends, the Schlepp bears. What better way to mark the occasion of 2004—the Chinese Year of the Monkey— than with monkeytravel.org?

The Monkey invites you to enjoy this celebration of the planet we all inhabit, and he welcomes your comments and questions.

1 February 2004

Although the Monkey's website has launched and is fully functional at present, there is still a lot of work to do. Country home pages are being revised to include a brief history as well as details of the Monkey's travels there. Some countries already have their introductory histories in place.

Updates are underway for Austria and Bulgaria following the Monkey's November 2003 visit to those countries.

Check back often for new information and photos.

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