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    Rare Air Episode 35

    October 31, 2019 - By 

    With this installment, the Rare Air encapsulation of our July, 2018, trip to Hawaii’s Big Island is now complete. May the artifacts from those memorable days and nights dance around in our collective consciousness forever. It was an exotic continuation of our adventures started in 2012, when we first set out to explore America and its National Parks together with our kids. The “trip of a lifetime” for Beth and me, it played out beautifully, ending with us all coming home to Asheville… as Amelia and Riley readied for their high school senior and freshmen years, respectively.

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    Rare Air Episode 33

    June 27, 2019 - By 

    It’s my pleasure to share footage captured at the spot where the Ka’ahakini and Kolekole Streams flow together – at Kolekole Beach Park in Hilo, on Hawaii’s Big Island – from our trip in July, 2018. You can learn quite a bit more about this spectacular place by reading previous entries on this blog, which are just a click away, using the wayfinder below. To this growing record and enchanting video footage, I’ll add a few immortal words from William Shakespeare. “What is past is prologue.” Hawaii Big Island, July, 2018 . December 2018 desktop calendar: Slideshow featuring select photos…

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    May 30, 2001: The Countdown Begins… Escape from LA, Part 1

    May 31, 2019 - By 

    All of this started playing out 18 years ago today – thought I’d bump it back to the top of this blog to rekindle the memories… Escape from LA by Roger Darnell Wednesday, May 30, 2001: The Countdown Begins As I sat at my desk at the end of the business day (night) on Tuesday, I knew I really needed to get some sleep to be ready to start loading the truck bright and early the next morning; surveying my office, though — still largely intact — it finally also sunk-in to me that I needed to get it packed,…