Sunday, March 30, 2008

Last Week of March

We spent the last few weeks of March at Campland on the Bay in Pacific Beach just a little north of downtown San Diego and Silver Strand State Park on Coronodo Island across the bay from downtown San Diego. Some of the highlights of the past two weeks were the sunsets on the beach, a concert by Candlebox at the House of Blues downtown, the Science Center in Balboa Park, playing Starfares and riding motorcycles with a local sport bike club. I spent over a week getting through the book John Adams by David-McCullough and found it better than 1776 also by David-McCullough that I finished last month. I found Thomas Jefferson to be most interesting as he is mentioned in both books as a constant over consumer that seemed to impress and capture the hearts of all he came in contact with.

Monday, March 24, 2008

A New Year Starts in Nevada

I spent most of January in Nevada starting off with a road trip in the RV with Rivers, Mark and John to Jackpot Nevada for my birthday.

After the birthday weekend I headed down to Las Vegas for the next four weeks. While in Las Vegas I toured the Hoover Dam, visited the Star Trek Adventure, strolled thorough most of the major casions, played Texas Hold'em with some famous poker stars, camped for a week in the Red Rock National Canyon and ate at a lot of dirt cheap buffets!

Most of the time I stayed at the Oasis RV Resort located on Las Vegas Blvd. about one mile south of the MGM Grand. They had two heated pools, hot tubs an 18 hole miniature golf course and nightly events in the clubhouse. I bought into a timeshare thing so it only cost $10 a night except a few nights that I stayed over that were $70 a night to stay there.

Kyle flew down for a week long visit, then Gretchen came for about a week. Jason and Elizabeth were also in town for a few day.

March in San Diego


During March I visited the U.S. Midway aircraft carrier. There were over 30 fighter jets, helicopters and vintage aircraft on the deck and in the bay. It took about five hours to go through all the decks and read about the battles, airplanes and missions the Midway saw while in service.

A few days later I visited the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park where they had one of the 12 existing SR-71 Black Birds and a space capsule along with about 100 other aircraft.
On another day I went through the San Diego Zoo, the Photography Museum, The Museum of Man, The Science Museum.

My first fact finding mission to L.A. was to a presentation by Richard Gage of Architects for 9/11 Truth and Steven Jones of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Both organizations now have hundreds of Engineers, Professors and Researchers that have signed on a supporting members. There were about 1,500 people at the 9/11 Truth presentation.

Why do I care about the 9/11 truth movement? At first I was board of my computer job and thought what could I do outside, travel and make some money? Hummm... well I could catch Osama Bin Laden. Anyway I was thinking well I'll just find out where this guy lived in the past contact some old friends of his and do the job myself.

Then after a little research I found many New Yorkers and other concerned citizens questioned the official accounts around 9/11 most shocking were structural engineers, figher fighters and first responders claiming that explosives were already planted in the buildings before the planes hit. Professor Steven Jones a Physics professor at BYU, recently retired, has found the chemical signature of Thermate in the dust of the world trade center wreckage. Steven Jones has stood up for what he found against threats and after loosing his job. After having his findings verified by other researchers I feel it warrants a more though look into 9/11 given the findings of explosives that were planted in the buildings before the planes crashed into them.

"In the beginning of change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for it then costs nothing to be a patriot."

Second fact finding mission of the month. I drove up to L.A. on two different occasions first was to see a device that claimed to enhance your vehicles gas burning engine with hydrogen allowing you to get 50% better gas millage. The image below shows the device disassembled. When assembled it screws onto a mason jar full of water and when the car is started the cables connected to the battery charge the coils bubbling Hydrogen out of the water that evaporates into a gas and flows out the tube into the carborator supposedly making the air that mixes with the gas Hydrogen rich and more explosive when mixed with the gas so less gas in needed. the guy had tools to adjust how lean the car ran he may be onto something that we could all drive around running our cars lean on gas. Either way I plan to buy a kit and enhance my air intake with the hydrogen device if it could add one mile per gallon in the RV that would be almost a 20% increase. www.water4gas.com.

Week in Washington D.C.


Went to New York for a few days in March then rode the Greyhound down to D.C. to visit Chris Phillipsen, one of my best friends from college. In all the trip was only a week long but times about perfectly. In New York I went for a jog through Central Park, spent an afternoon in the Museum of Natural History and tried several variations of Pizza. In D.C. I met up with Chad a friend from Seattle while Chris was at work and we went through the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in the Capitol mall. Chad knew his way around Washington pretty well so we went to Patty Murray's office then over to see if Ron Paul was in. At Ron Paul's office he came out to meet us and gave each of us a signed copy of the U.S. Constitution. Chris, his daughter and I went on an all day walk through the capitol mall. We visited the Archives to view the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution. Then we viewed the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and Reflection Pool.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

15 minute poker

Played poker at the RV resort for a $5 buy in. We had a timer and every 15 minutes would change the game so we we would play 7 card stud, 5 card deuces wild, Texas Hold'em and 5 card stud all in an hour.
I got almost the who table to press hard into 4 fives, I had a deuce wild showing and a five and another deuce wild and five in the hold. I almost cleaned the whole table out on that hand and was guaranteed part of the winnings if I would have just folded the rest of my hands but got greedy and pressed into another player during Omaha Low and he had the only hand in the deck that could have beaten my hand I figured there was only one hand that could beat me and we were raising and re-rasing the maximum on each card. Goes to show don't get greedy.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

RV Roadtrip 2008


California - San Diego - Coronodo Island - Silver Strand State Park