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Bo n Gus r Ba 2 Sin “Y’all” is a common slang word used in the south to include many. “Yo” is used in the north-east to mean “Hello”. Californians have many slang words and “rad” is one of them. In Hawaii, “da kine” is one of the most popular used and it means “that”, [...]

How hard is it now? Chainsaws to cut wood for heat. Natural gas, or oil, or propane, or electric heat by the flick of a switch. Generators for power outages. Freezers full of food. TV, internet, videos and video games to entertain. Four wheel drives and snowplows. Take away all of these and then add [...]

More skiers/snowboarders learn their winter skills on 400 vertical feet slopes than 4,000 vertical ones. The Eastern and Midwest states have numerous small ski slopes of all different sizes that are small in comparision to the upper Northeast and West. Many of the the top USA skiers come from these grassroot ski slopes, working their [...]

Many currrent ski resorts in the west were once mining towns. Aspen, Durango, Telluride, Park City, Alta/Snowbird, Sun Valley, and others. The miners that traveled from all over the world to man the mines had many real extreme situations to handle. Blizzards to bury towns, mine shafts collapsing, and those avalanches to sweep away many. Add in the [...]

Distance. How far is far? Perception. What degree of perception is too far out of the box? There is that “far” word again. As has been written before, some may know this and some may not. In 1997, I did a solo windsurf tripfrom LA to Maui on a custom windsurfer that I designed and [...]

War. A band gave it a different meaning. Freedom. The band has it. Easy to point fingers against war, easy to clap fingers for War. Freedom has a price. The USA has a problem, as millions want to migrate here. Why? Partly due to soldiers and the freedom they have fought for. Still easy to point fingers against war, [...]

Can you all remember where/whom you were with on Y2K? It was over 12 years ago. Can you remember where/whom you were with on 9/11/2001? Do you remember what happened after 9/11 that involved three waving colors? Flags. American flags. Everywhere. Patriotism was alive and Americans showed it in the cities, in the countryside, on [...]

A weather high pressure circulates in a clockwise direction, from the inside out, from top to bottom, and is a blowing wind, like a hair dryer on your face. When you face a wind generated by a high pressure, it is coming at you from the center. A low pressure is the opposite, circulates in a counter-clockwise [...]

Beware of snakes. This sign does not need to be in Hawaii, as Hawaii has no snakes. At least that is what is told by the State of Hawaii tourist departments. Luckily, the snake that lives in Hawaii is nowhere as long as the snake that lives in Idaho. Hawaii’s harmless snake is four inches long, is as [...]

A troubled person searched far and wide for the meaning of life. They crossed the dryest deserts, ventured through the vine tangled rainforests, and climbed the highest mountains. Finally, after searching far and wide, they came upon monastary with an aged wooden door. After numerous knocks that echo throughout, a feeble old monk opened the [...]