Category: Travel

While I was wandering around this evening between martinis, I passed the U-Down store a few blocks from my house. To give a little bit of backgorund, if you go anywhere on this fukn island of Oahu, you see this U down symbol…. Anyway…life has been complicated for a while and for whatever reason, tonight…

Watch out folks…something seems to be stirring under the big island of Hawaii…. Slump in volcano mystifies scientists HILO » The summit of Kilauea volcano slumped yesterday. Nobody knows why. The activity, similar to a balloon slowly losing air, was first noted at 5:45 a.m. By 4:20 p.m. the process, called deflation, had stopped after…

Well folks…it was a lovely sunday in Hawaii. the waves were perfect for boogie boarding this morning and this afternoon I grabbed my bike and took the bus to the East West Center at the University of Hawaii to hear Anne Wright speak about Central Asia. Ms. Wright was a Colonel in the U.S. military…

This is the road I drive 2 or 3 times most days. You have to be an idiot to race through these tunnels as you come out and hit a fairly blind curve….or a line of traffic….or flip yourself over an embankment… wow…I bet the guy that won the race feels like shit….let me sooth…

Numbah One Day of Christmas And I’m available, too…(Just an aside…Mink Hippie reminded me that I’m in fact, NOT available….)cd (The 12 Days of Christmas local style) – by Eaton B. Magoon Jr., Edward Kenny, Gordon N. Phelps Numbah One day of Christmas, my tutu give to me One mynah bird in one papaya tree….

The Holidays are upon us and life is unexpectedly busy….but I will try to keep you up to date on the important stories….like this one… cd Smaller surf greets Pipeline challengers By Brandon Lee Special to the Star-Bulletin The 35th annual Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters’ main event began yesterday. But the main course has…

I was up there on the North Shore today…it was a madhouse…the waves were beautiful…and I could only stay 15 minutes because the old Japanese ladies I was driving got bored….still…pretty cool to get paid to be there at all… cd 2005 vans triple crown of surfing : north shore of oahu RIP CURL CODE…

Hmmm….the big question is…what is going to replace the foam blanks….someone revolutionary needs to come up with something…maybe I can come up with a plan… cd Surfers worship waves and boards with equal passion. Polyurethane foam “blanks” produced by California-based Gordon Clark are used to make many of the world’s surfboards. Mr Clark, who helped…

I sometimes get to drive around survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is amazing to hear their stories and imagine this land of aloha filled with smoke and death. Almost impossible to imagine. It happened though. It could happen again, and probably will. Visitors from ‘the heartland’ often express surprise and dismay at…