Roi Rat JournalRoi Rat JournalRoi Rat Journal is a not so serious account of my life on a small island in the middle of the Pacific. It is chuck full of interesting facts about the people who are native to the Marshall Islands as well as great photos of diving, sailing, and surf
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Letters from Riyadh
2008-03-26 02:54:00 Last night I watched the movie Letters from Iwo Jima which I quite enjoyed. By coincidence today my mother sent me some letters I had written to my family when I worked in Riyadh back in 1991. Though far removed from Roi-Namur I thought it might be interesting to see where this Roi ... More About: Travel
Proof of the Catch
2008-02-17 06:56:00 Perhaps when I described the huge tuna that I caught off Airok folks may have had their doubts about the size of the fish I caught despite the photo I included. That’s fine. But let me tell you, this week I received some photos from former Roi resident Rob Corbin with actual untouched ... More About: Fishing , Proof , Catch
Pro Bowl in Hawaii and Perfection
2008-02-11 02:50:00 Aloha, Today I watched the Pro Bowl in Hawaii and sighted a Kwaj. sign in the stands. I can recall guys going there for the Pro Bowl as the closest professional football game to Kwajalein atoll. I enjoy watching any sport called football, while my favorite is what I refer to as “real football” ... More About: Travel , Perfection
Typical Day Diving on Roi
2008-02-02 06:45:00 Posted February 1, 2008 ?I swim like a fish in the sea all the time, if that?s what it takes to be free I don?t mind? ? Toots Hibbert Sunday mornings on Roi-Namur for me meant it was time to go diving. The local activity center provides Bayliner boats for fishing, diving, and other water ... More About: Diving
Crime and Punishment
2008-01-18 07:22:00 Yokwe. Tonight I was sitting in the bar at Buffalo Wild Wings playing buzztime trivia with my friends. I was having a decent night having won one game and finished second or third in all the others and had a perfect game going into the last question when I heard a voice behind ... More About: Crime , Punishment , Island Life , Cultural , Crime and Punishment
Year In Review
2008-01-16 04:29:00 January 8, 2007 OSU Loses BCS championship to Florida(coached by an Ohio native) March 2007 OSU loses NCAA Men’s basketball championship to Florida June 2007 - Cav’s lose NBA championship (swept in 4 games) July 2007 - Injure right shoulder practicing gung-fu September 2007 - re-injure right shoulder playing volleyball in pool. October 2007 - Indians lose American league championship ... More About: Blogroll , Review , Year , Year in Review
Ghosts of Roi-Namur
2008-01-02 00:18:00 Posted 1/1/2008 The title is kind of a tease because I only know one Roi-Namur ghost story. There was a huge battle fought on Roi back during WWII. There were quite a few Japanese soldiers and a few American soldiers who lost their lives during the battle. Some of ... More About: Ghosts , Island Life
Christmas on Roi-Namur
2007-12-23 07:04:00 Well Christmas is almost upon us so I would like to thank all of my readers and wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Most likely your next question is, what is Christmas like on Roi-Namur . That is a very good question but it is one I cannot answer. ... More About: Island Life
Target Practice
2007-12-20 21:06:00 Posted 12/20/2007 The average Joe on Roi-Namur is not allowed to have a weapon. Nor is the average Eric, Matt, or Glenn. I mention those names because just about every man and maybe one or two women on Roi have one of those names. It makes it a little easier to remember names. There was one ... More About: Blogroll , Practice , Target
Ask Mr. Roi Rat
2007-12-13 04:02:00 Posted 12/12/2007 Ask Mr. Rat Most of my original stories of my life and adventures on Roi-Namur have already been published on this site so I decided to start a new feature. You the reader can ask me questions, preferably about life on Roi or there abouts, and I will answer them. I have already opened up ...
Roi Survival Kit
2007-12-08 05:56:00 Roi Namur Survival Kit OK, let’s say you’ve just landed what looks to be a challenging and highly rewarding job working on Roi-Namur and you’ve started going through all the usual steps of preparing to relocate there such as the thorough physical examinations that are required to insure you are in the prime of health. ... More About: Island Life , Viva
Typical Day on Roi
2007-11-01 05:49:00 Day in the Life If you’ve been checking out this web-site for a while or even a first time visitor you may be saying, “OK we’ve read all about your many exciting experiences in a highly entertaining format but tell me what day to day life is like on a remote island in the middle of ... More About: Island Life , Pica
Lucky Dube
2007-10-21 08:53:00 It is with great sadness that I write of Lucky Dube passing. Dube, 43, was shot dead in a hijacking in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, on Thursday night, police said. He had just dropped off his son when he was attacked. This post has little to do with Roi-Namur I admit but still Lucky Dube presence ... More About: Cultural
Roi-Namur Rastaman Vibration Reggae Hour(s) Extravaganza Part II
2007-10-18 05:55:00 Posted for the first time October 17, 2007 My radio show started from humble beginnings and over time it grew into a show that was not quite humble anymore but still close to being humble. I think I can say with all due conceit that it was the very best reggae show on Kwajalein atoll. ... More About: Reggae , Part , Hour , Island Life , Vibration
Roi-Namur Rastaman Vibration Reggae Hour(s) Part I
2007-10-11 06:40:00 While on Roi I was a DJ at the local radio station. Here is a letter I wrote home after my initial show originally dated March 27, 2002. My next blog I will describe what this show eventually grew into from its humble beginnings described here, the KVZI 97.9 FM Roi-Namur Rastaman Vibration ... More About: Reggae , Part , Hour , Island Life
Drowning Miss Daisy
2007-10-02 06:59:00 The day that I am posting this blog is Daisy ’s 7th birthday. It seemed appropriate to post it today. When I met her she was only 3. I talked to her mother’s cousin last night and he told me Daisy still calls me baba (father). This article is also about a trip ... More About: Miss , Island Life , Cultural
San Carlos
2007-09-25 07:02:00 One of the best things about working on Roi-Namur was that once a year I got to take a one-month vacation. Typically I would stop in Honolulu for a couple of days to get use to civilization again. It is quite an adjustment to go from an island of about one hundred people where nothing ... More About: Travel , Diving , Carlos , Carlo
Naked Mermaid
2007-09-20 06:10:00 A Dave Barry article that was posted this week on the Miami Herald web-site brought to mind an incident on Kwajalein atoll. The article discussed modern art in public places and questioned whether the average tax payer would appreciate large sums of money being spent on an object that essentially looked like a mangled ... More About: Island Life , Cultural
Octopus and Rat Attack
2007-09-15 08:19:00 I got involved in some hunting last weekend. There is no large game in the jungles of Kwajalein atoll so the sportsman must seek his game in and around the water for the most part. Sunday I awoke to a gloriously splendid day. The skies were blue and the air was warm ... More About: Travel , Diving , Island Life , Attack , Octopus
New Technology (not available on Roi-Namur)
2007-09-13 04:39:00 Today?s topic was not written while on Roi. I have a few more great articles from my life there to post but as a service to my friends who are still incarcerated on Roi I thought I would share with them some of the modern marvels that are enjoyed here in the US that are ... More About: Technology , Island Life , Ology , Namur , Available
Arno Love School
2007-09-09 04:08:00 Many people have never heard of the Marshall Islands or if they have it may only have been in reference to Bikini where nuclear testing was once done. A few more may have heard of Kwajalein, a US Army missile test site, and some may have heard of the World Class SCUBA diving and fishing ... More About: Love , School , Cultural
Marshall Island Browns Backers
2007-09-07 06:36:00 Iakwe, The football season is on us which brings to mind my time on Roi where I was the president of the Marshall Island Browns Backers. Everyone who knows me knows that I am passionate when it comes to my support of the greatest sports franchise of all time the Super Bowl Bound Cleveland Browns. ... More About: Island Life
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2007-09-07 06:19:00 Iakwe, Roi-Namur does not have NTN trivia so if I had been there tonight I would not have scored the second highest score of the year at BWW in Tucson that I scored tonight with a point total of 51,646. That is the highest score I have ever had in my life there. Technorati Tags: ... More About: Island Life
Tribal Fusion - Reggae on Kwajalein Atoll
2007-09-05 07:20:00 My keyboard has been silent for a while. Partly because it has seemed that I have not done anything lately to live up to my trip to Ailinglaplap but mostly because I have been pretty busy with music. Around the end of February a Puerto Rican guy here named Ozzy asked me to play with ... More About: Reggae , Fusion , Island Life , Tribal
Camping Trip to Bigeg
2007-09-02 20:25:00 Several weekends ago while taking my friend?s 36-foot Catamaran Georgina on a shake out cruise we came up with the idea of sailing up to Bigeg to go camping. We chose Bigeg because my friend Eric?s girlfriend Cathner owns the southern half of the island. Bigeg is a fairly large island north of ... More About: Travel , Camping , Sailing , Trip
Fish and Lobsters
2007-09-01 02:49:00 It gets lonely here so far from my friends and family so last spring I bought an aquarium from a woman who was leaving to move back to the US. It is an extremely large aquarium (at least 55 gallons, maybe more, I?m not sure). It came with all the accessories including a ... More About: Fish , Island Life
Marshallese Grooming Tips
2007-08-31 07:40:00 Iakwe, Here are some grooming tips from the islands. Many Marshallese will leave one finger nail (the pinky) much longer than the other nails. This serves a utilitarian purpose as they use it to slice open fish they catch. They then are about to eat out the delicious guts. Their favorite I’m told is the stomach ... More About: Tips , Grooming , Cultural , Ming , Halle
An Octopus, 2 Parties, and a Wedding
2007-08-30 06:53:00 Sunday night here we had a Karaoke to benefit the Enniburr Children?s Christmas fund. We earned $401 towards our fund, which is to buy Christmas presents for the children there. That is not the amazing part. The amazing part is that I sang a few songs and it was actually requested that I sing an ... More About: Wedding , Parties , Diving , Island Life , Cultural
Mejenkwaad
2007-08-29 06:02:00 Maybe after reading all of these highly informative and entertaining blogs about life on scenic Roi-Namur you’ve decided to start a challenging and rewarding career living and working on Roi-Namur. One day you meet a beautiful island girl who still has many of her teeth and the two of you fall in love despite the ... More About: Cultural
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