Travlrsong
2008-04-22, 11:55 PM
This is my first post, but I've been reading yours and learning a few things over the past year and a half. Thank you. I'll try to keep the self-introduction from being too egocentric, but you know how self-intro's can get.
I could never sit still to watch the Sunday sports on TV as a kid, and was a little too clever to believe the old guys at church. As a result, I spent as much time as I could in the desert, which became my playground, church, classroom, and grocery store.
12 ga. 870 Express for birds, and a recurve (Martin Mamba) for mammals. Instinctive shooter with more clean misses than lethal hits, and no bad shots (knock on head).
Sailed Sunfish and Hobie-cats in the Sea of Cortez, but am definitely a novice sailor. I worked refurbishing yachts in boatyards in Perth and Melbourne to gain experience (and travel cash), and can't wait to learn more.
Jesuit prep, state uni, languages, sales and portfolio management, burnt-out on the suburban dream. Liquidated assets, paid off bills and debt, cried as I gave my labrador to a trusted friend, and left with a passport, backpack, and guitar. Spent a few years backpacking SE Asia, Australia, Europe, N. Africa, and wound up here with to a quality japanese cutie I met in Taiwan. 1 1/2 years after we met and started traveling together, we went back there to elope (to escape our families' ideas of "a proper wedding"). Our resident hostel friends and the hostel manager were our witnesses at the Taipei JP ceremony. Now we're back here with a little drooling beauty, and I'm back in the classroom. Luckily, the gig is enjoyable, and we live in a great, small, coastal town.
I grow our luxury vegetables (corn, chilis, basil, tomatoes, parsley, green beans, sweet potatoes, salad greens, & bok choy) along the side of our house, and am determined to catch more than kisu and ishimochi from the surf this summer. No luck on suzuki or ika last year, but not for lack of effort. Same goes for flyfishing in the river and mountain streams. Ayu are great, but they're just not trout. I don't remember the word for steelhead, but have heard that they're in the river too. Would love to catch some!
My old chari (two baskets cool) gets me all around town, and keeps my legs in shape. Getting ready to start an in-home juku. Any suggestions or stories?
I've built a vermiculture bin, and feed our kitchen scraps to it (except the fish bones that go to the neighborhood cats), and a beehive according to the Warre-Abbey specs. Baited the hive with local honey, but nobody's moved in yet. Might try some orchids later, but the swarming season will really get going in May (so I read and hear).
I write songs and play my guitar to keep sane (quit drinking years ago), but no matter how hard I try, it just doesn't come out as J-pop. Hahaha. Guess the wife will have to adjust.
Definitely interested in learning much more about sea kayaking, canoe sailing, building bamboo furniture, permaculture, thin film photovoltaics, wind generators, digging and throwing local clay, and hop-skotching the local hunting laws. I saw a lot of old and new inoshishi tracks down by the river while digging some sweet takenoko last week. Any ideas about the best way to ship a recurve across the Pacific.
Definitely interested in some sort of seed-swapping, as I was lucky enough to get some seeds from a killer tomato to sprout, and the nanohana forest is going to seed as I type. Great leaves, those nanohana. I wonder if anyone is kind enough to offer any seeds for trade. Anything that will grow outdoors. Height's not a problem, nor are hybridization or flavor. I'm open to all offers.
Have a Grateful one, guys, and keep smiling.
I could never sit still to watch the Sunday sports on TV as a kid, and was a little too clever to believe the old guys at church. As a result, I spent as much time as I could in the desert, which became my playground, church, classroom, and grocery store.
12 ga. 870 Express for birds, and a recurve (Martin Mamba) for mammals. Instinctive shooter with more clean misses than lethal hits, and no bad shots (knock on head).
Sailed Sunfish and Hobie-cats in the Sea of Cortez, but am definitely a novice sailor. I worked refurbishing yachts in boatyards in Perth and Melbourne to gain experience (and travel cash), and can't wait to learn more.
Jesuit prep, state uni, languages, sales and portfolio management, burnt-out on the suburban dream. Liquidated assets, paid off bills and debt, cried as I gave my labrador to a trusted friend, and left with a passport, backpack, and guitar. Spent a few years backpacking SE Asia, Australia, Europe, N. Africa, and wound up here with to a quality japanese cutie I met in Taiwan. 1 1/2 years after we met and started traveling together, we went back there to elope (to escape our families' ideas of "a proper wedding"). Our resident hostel friends and the hostel manager were our witnesses at the Taipei JP ceremony. Now we're back here with a little drooling beauty, and I'm back in the classroom. Luckily, the gig is enjoyable, and we live in a great, small, coastal town.
I grow our luxury vegetables (corn, chilis, basil, tomatoes, parsley, green beans, sweet potatoes, salad greens, & bok choy) along the side of our house, and am determined to catch more than kisu and ishimochi from the surf this summer. No luck on suzuki or ika last year, but not for lack of effort. Same goes for flyfishing in the river and mountain streams. Ayu are great, but they're just not trout. I don't remember the word for steelhead, but have heard that they're in the river too. Would love to catch some!
My old chari (two baskets cool) gets me all around town, and keeps my legs in shape. Getting ready to start an in-home juku. Any suggestions or stories?
I've built a vermiculture bin, and feed our kitchen scraps to it (except the fish bones that go to the neighborhood cats), and a beehive according to the Warre-Abbey specs. Baited the hive with local honey, but nobody's moved in yet. Might try some orchids later, but the swarming season will really get going in May (so I read and hear).
I write songs and play my guitar to keep sane (quit drinking years ago), but no matter how hard I try, it just doesn't come out as J-pop. Hahaha. Guess the wife will have to adjust.
Definitely interested in learning much more about sea kayaking, canoe sailing, building bamboo furniture, permaculture, thin film photovoltaics, wind generators, digging and throwing local clay, and hop-skotching the local hunting laws. I saw a lot of old and new inoshishi tracks down by the river while digging some sweet takenoko last week. Any ideas about the best way to ship a recurve across the Pacific.
Definitely interested in some sort of seed-swapping, as I was lucky enough to get some seeds from a killer tomato to sprout, and the nanohana forest is going to seed as I type. Great leaves, those nanohana. I wonder if anyone is kind enough to offer any seeds for trade. Anything that will grow outdoors. Height's not a problem, nor are hybridization or flavor. I'm open to all offers.
Have a Grateful one, guys, and keep smiling.