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99% self sustainable Ann Kobsa gifting the Gal with a papaya tree to plant on her sliver of the Big Island.
 Bike Friday Customer Evangelist Lynette Chiang escapes the Eugene winter to hang out in Hawaii. PHOTO GALLERIES Big Island: Hilo/Puna Photo Gallery 2006 Riding the Saddle Road with Bike Friday customers, Thanksgiving, cultivating my postage-stamp-sized lot in Nanawale, a bored certified psychic's earthquake Big Island: Hilo Photo Gallery 2005 Coqui frogs, rain, and 4 papayas for $1 - gotta love it. Big Island: Kapoho/Puna Photo Gallery 2005 Urban Americans living the lush life in lavaland in Puna, the Big Island Big Island: Ann Kobsa Gallery 2005 Bike Friday owner Ann Kobsa living car-free and 99% self-sustainably on the Big Island Kauai: Napali Coast & Kalalau Gallery 2005 11 mile challenging hike to Kalalau Beach, northern Kauai. Big Island and Maui: Volcano Photo Gallery 2005 Touring the Chain of Craters Road/Kalapana on the Big Island, and Haleakala on Maui. Kauai: Vipassana in Kauai 2005 I served on this 10-day silent meditation course in Haena, northern coast of Kauai. Oahu 2006: Riding and presenting to the Hawaii Bicycling League, The Bike Friday Club of Hawaii, Wayne Takazono's collectible art, mochi mmmm.... Oahu: The megoloplis in paradise 2005 mixing business with pleasure and a bit of almost-surfing |
MOVIE CLIPS (Download free Quicktime 7 player for Mac | Windows). Clips are 1-5 minutes in length. Sound files (.aif) are quite small, under 50 Kb unless otherwise noted).
Big Island: First week in Hilo 2005 (5 Mb) Coqui frogs singin' in the rain
Big Island: Biking bits of Hilo's Old Scenic Highway 2005(10 Mb) with Bike Friday owners JB, Katie and Hilda Friday
Big Island: Volcanoes (7.2 Mb) From both approaches: chain of craters road and Kalapana Big Island: Food (4.8 Mb) some native and not so native comestibles Big Island: JB Friday's personal agroforest (5.5 Mb) a wander around the Friday's backyard in Hilo Big Island: Hilo's Hei Tiare Revue (3.3 Mb) Hoooooo-eee! I stumbled on these Tahitian dancers going through their practise paces |
Big Island: My postage-stamp-size piece of Hawaii! I bought a lot near the hippy town of Pahoa for $19,500 (story and movie clip) |
 Big Island: Stacey's House, Kapoho (2.8 Mb) Check out her jungle shower Big Island: 99% self-sustainable Ann Kobsa, a wander around her property in two parts: Part 1 (6 mins, 10.6 Mb) | Part 2 (5 mins, 9.1 Mb) 'Auto-free' Ann's life is fueled by the sun and rain - and not a drop of fossil fuel. Anne's coco-crazy ducks. Big Island: Rick Rimer, sustainability by the sea (2.6 Mb) Rick tackles the tough goal of living 100% self-sustainably on coastal lava Maui: Haleakala descent (1.8 Mb, 1 min) From snow (well, almost) to whoa, on this 10,000 ft, 37 mile volcano |
Kauai: Hiking the Napali Coast - the 11-mile Kalalau trail from a novice hiker's point of view Kauai: Kalalau Watersocks (1.7 Mb) Masa and Theresa demonstrate Wal*Mart's watershoes for hiking the trecherous Napali trail to Kalalau Beach Kauai: Slack Key Guitar Lesson (1.3 Mb) Local Hawaiians Billy Leleo and Herbert Kaneolani saved me from the empty and dodgy Anahola Beach campsite on Christmas Day, and as a result the two gents jammed together on their guitars (<1 mb) for the first time in their 60-something lives. Herbert taught me this slack key riff. Follow his fingers and you can be a star! (Kauai) Oahu: Bike/Run Training for the Half Ironman (4.4 Mb) BF Club of HI leader Ralph Dobson getting whipped into shape by 19-time Ironman veteren Clif of HR Training (Oahu) Oahu: Swim Training for the Half Ironman (4.6 Mb) Ralph Dobson takes to the water in the name of competition (Oahu) |
 Big Island: The Pied Piper of Puna, David Hannauer, Ocarina Meister +++ BLOG Big Island: Rain, long johns and four papayas for $1 - Lynette lands in Hilo. Thank you to Richard Vallens for sponsoring this 1-month leg of my sabbatical. The Islands in general: An overview of Kauai and Maui adventures Some meaty bedtime tales on some aspects to follow Big Island: My postage-stamp-size piece of Hawaii! Story and movie clip More coming - gimme a chance! +++ Watch this space for more when I get near a coconut wireless... trip ends Feb 20, 2006 Join the BF Club of Hawaii A FEW SHOTS More in the above galleries |
A vista from the gruelling 11-mile hike into the magical Kalalau Valley (except for the juddering joyflight choppers overhead every 10 minutes). See photo gallery.
At 10,000 freezing feet (37 mile descent) on Haleakala Volcano, Maui, with hardcore solo cycletourer Suzan Boatright (who is constantly mistaken for Bo Derek, unencumbered men of cerebral substance take note). Susan would love to meet a thinking biking bud. Wouldn't we all. Contact her on suzboatright at hotmail dot com
I got to telecommute in the wireless wonderland of the Vipassana Metta foundation office for three days on Maui. A carpeted cubicle it wasn't! Do Vipassana in Kauai or elsewhere.
Bike Friday owner Anne Kobsa lives car-free and 99% self-sustainably on the Big Island. See gallery
Chain of Craters Road on the Big Island - the view from the saddle at sunset. See gallery
The Ocarina Meister - view the above clips and story
Cousins Billy and Herbert rescued me from empty and sinister Anahola campsite, Christmas Day. I was the catalyst for them jamming together for the first time in their lives! See above video clips and slack key lesson. Story of that fateful evening coming soon.
Hilda Friday introduces a lei-d Robinson the Adventurous BF Otter to Owl. Hilo gallery
My Hilo host Charles DiBella, local biking and recycling activist and PhD graduate of the University of The Road. Read about his life and work here. Hilo gallery
The only 'standing up' done on my first lesson with friend Val was this board! Val (right) became an instant 'cousin' after reading my post on Craigslist.org.
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