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The Aloha Continues

During Bo’s Spring Break, he decided that as a newly minted 21 year old, he wanted to attend the 2009 Kona Brewfest.  I was planning on going as well so everything came together and we had a blast! 

 

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A Hawaiian Christmas

Timing is everything. A few days before the “50 year winter storm” hits Whidbey Island, Suzanne and I arrived at the “Love Shack” in Kona to spend some time at our home away from home over the Holidays. Bo was able to join us right after Christmas for a few weeks during [...]

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12 Hour Enduro at PIR

On a crisp, clear Fall day in Portland International Raceway our team of 6 drivers covered over a thousand miles and 510 laps in Mike Helton’s BMW M3. The event was the “12 Hours of the Cascades” put on by the Cascade Sports Car Club . The result was an astounding [...]

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Fighter Pilot For A Day

Bo takes to the air in the Air Combat “Fighter Pilot for a Day” program - a civilian dog fighting school. This fighter pilot experience includes some classroom training and an hour “dogfight” in a SIAI Marchetti SF-260 Italian aeorobatic aircraft that flies like a small jet. The aircraft is fitted with onboard cameras and [...]

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On The Road Again…

Join Suzanne, Jack and “The Enterprise” for our 5000 mile ”Americana Tour” including 12 states and time in the  Black Hills of South Dakota,  Racing at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, a visit with niece Courtney in Ogden, Utah and a day at Yellowstone Park.
 
 

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…and so it begins…

Notice anything missing in the following picture? 
 
Click on the link below for a hint!

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A New York Minute…

Somehow in all my years of travelling I missed New York, so this was my first visit - albeit a brief one - and we managed to pack a lot into just a few days.

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A Wedding in Guatemala

It’s not often I wear a tux, but for my Dad and now wife Cheryl, I made an exception in the fashion department.  …not to mention lugging it all the way down to Guatemala for the wedding.  As it turns out, this trip turned out to be fantastic in so many ways - spending time with [...]

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Mauna Kea’s Back Country

In the shadow of Mauna Kea, Mana Road winds it’s way 45 miles from the southeastern flank near Saddle Road around 6500′ in elevation to it’s northern face in Waimea.  In the 1800’s, this was a cattle trail on the Parker Ranch.  There are still a lot of cattle along with Koa tree forests, ponds full of Nene geese, a [...]

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2008 Southern Festival of Speed

This is the “motor-head version” of our trip to New Zealand for the 2008 Southern Festival of Speed comprised of three race weekends at Ruapuna, Levels and Teretonga.  I have included YouTube links to in-car videos at all race tracks and lots of photo and commentary on racing in New Zealand.

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New Zealand 2008 - Part 2

The adventure continues in Timaru and the Levels racetrack - home of the second in the series of 3 “meetings” (race weekends) that comprises the Southern Festival of Speed here on the South Island of New Zealand. 

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New Zealand 2008 - Part 1

We left the Love Shack at Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii at 2:30 PM Friday January 25th and 24 hours later, we were one day ahead (January 27th) and checking into the Hapuku Lodge in Kaikoru, New Zealand (South Island) close to 5000 miles away from the shack.    ….tired, probably really [...]

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