What now?

Well, we've been in Hawaii for almost 2 1/2 years now and have came to the conclusion that it really is pretty expensive. And I've personally concluded that the beach and the sun aren't my favorite things in the world. I don't think I've actually been in the ocean in 6 months. So it's time for a change. Cara and I have spent the past couple months selling/giving/throwing away most of what we have out here in the middle of the pacific ocean. It has been quite a challenge, but we've managed to scale everything down to a couple boxes to go back to our collection in Alaska and a few bags of stuff to take with us when we make our escape.

Where to now? There have been alot of changes in our life recently, and a lot of changes in our outlook of the way we'd like to live our life. For the time being, we find ourselves kid-less and home-less. My work affords me the ability to take large amounts of time off yet still pays the bills, which are diminishing quickly. So, Kid-less, rent-less, and bill-almost-less we're catching a flight off the rock to rejoin one of our favorite things, the DONK3Y. It's been almost a year since we've seen it and we miss it.




Cara gets a kick out of telling people we're going to live in a van, Down by the River! We plan on spending our time, while I'm not at work, camping and roadtripping around the United States. Both of us having grown up and spent the majority of our lives in Alaska, there are several things on our bucket list we'd like to check off. We will begine by meeting up with Eddie and Kathryn somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and caravaning with them to Flagstaff AZ to attend the Overland Exposition. Afterwards, a couple weeks spent moseying (can vans mosey?) our way back up to Oregon to check out some possible locations for a new home base.

Labor Day, Not at Tanacross

For the first Labor Day or Memorial day in the past 8 or so years, I wasn't joining my friends at Tanacross airstrip for some camping and automotive fun. I miss the good times and hope all was well, but I gotta do something!

I decided to take my Samurai and join up with a bunch of jeep folks for some spirited driving in Kuaokala Forest, commonly refered to as 'Peacock Flats'. I had only met 2 of them before, there was a total of about 10 jeeps on this run.

A test.... of sorts

I got it into my head that I wanted to have some sort of an online journal, a place I can share things with friends and family. This is it.

Cara and I went snorkeling the other day, to a place called 'Electric Beach'. It's called 'Electric Beach' because it's right beside an Electric Plant at the South Edge of Waianae on Oahu. The Electric plant uses seawater for cooling, and theres a pipeline that returns the warmer water several hunderd yards off the coast. This reportedly has the effect of attracting alot of sealife to the area because of the warmer waters. We have seen boats bringing snorkelers to this location multiple times and thought we'd check it out.

Unfortunately, I didn't get my bearings very well before jumping in the water, and we were unable to locate the 'hot spot' as there are no above water cues to aid in finding the exhaust. Next time out we'll pay better attention.