HILO, Hawai’i — A derelict, battered 33-foot sailboat abandoned in rough weather off Costa Rica last year apparently drifted for six months and more than 4,500 miles before it was sighted a few miles off the southwestern coast of the Big Island. A Big Island Fire Department rescue crew was lowered to the deck of…
Category: Travel
Singing Tibetan nuns finish epic trek
I can’t help but picture “The Sound of Music….” Two Tibetan nuns have arrived in a hill town in northern India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. They arrived days after dramatically fleeing Tibet. One of the nuns has reportedly complained of being sick. Sources in the town of Dharamsala confirmed to the…
How often are emergency exits used? Are seats getting smaller? Can you open an emergency door in midflight? And answers to other questions you always wondered about airline travel but felt too moronic and paranoid to ask
Two weeks ago, a disturbed man aboard a United Airlines flight out of Chicago had to be subdued after claiming to have a bomb and attempting to open a cabin door during flight. Passengers, along with three Secret Service agents en route to join President Bush’s entourage in California, wrestled Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega to the…
Do you believe in magic?
Cirque Hawaii recently debuted in Honolulu – it is sort of a local version of Cirque du Soleil. I use “local” loosely, since most of the performers are from Central Asia and Mongolia. It must be kind of a surreal life to train as a circus performer somewhere in Kyrgyzstan and end up in Waikiki…….
Sea of remembrance, peace – The Honolulu Advertiser
The Chairman and I attended last night’s Lantern Floating ceremony at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu. It was moving and beautiful to see a thousand paper lanterns honoring the dead floating off onto the waves. Surfers stood out in silhouette against the sky as they herded stray lanterns. We watched one lantern make a…
More stripping in Hawaii….
Below is a picture of a stripper in Hawaii, but of late, strippers of a different sort have been ripping off public facilities, churches,a nd now graveyards in order to make some cash from scrap copper….the story is below the picture…. cd  Police said that within the last two months, they have been alerted…
Freegans are Urban Survivalists
This article takes something I have been preaching for years and sort of institutionalizes it. I like it. The truth is that every day enough food and value is thrown into dumpsters to feed, clothe, house, and educate every person on the planet. If you want to explore this lifestyle further, you should read the…
Wire Thefts Cause Freeway Light Outages – Yahoo! News
First the fixtures from public restrooms and now the wires that carry electricity. Watch on, Planet Earth, as the United States of America begins to dismantle itslef and bring to a close an experiment gone horribly wrong that was started more than two hundred years ago with the founding of the country. I’m certain you…
Rental from craigslist in the heart of waikiki
Suffice to say…its not cheap to find a place to live in Hawaii…I haven’t asked but I wonder if they want a deposit on that closet? First and last? cd I have a closet for rent – there is space in it for one person sleeping upright; you’re able to lean against the backboard if…
Trouble getting rid of shit
Toilets, sinks, and flush valves disappeared from 28 Oahu public rest rooms over the last 3 weeks. Can you picture this gang?? [Cue Mission Impossible music…] Thieves in the last three weeks have hit scores of city park bathrooms and made off with a valuable commodity: $10,000 worth of brass toilet flush valves. City officials…