As always lifes journey can easily take us to places we never imagined. I am happily living in Northern California. I am doing computer programming again. My new passion is RC Aircraft, specifically helicopters and airplanes, as well as flying FPV (First Person View). I have an airplane I currently am using that I fly with a live video feed so I can see it as I fly, which allows me to fly outside of where I can see, currently my record is roughly 1/2 mile away, though eventually I plan to go out much farther.
For more on my life check out my RC Blog.
Here are a few videos from my various flights:
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sorry for the long delay in posting!
It has been a while since I wrote anything here, sorry! My laptop was stolen a few months ago while I was in San Fran so my access to a computer has been very limited. To add to it, my google accounts got all messed up and I finally was just able to fix it all today!
I will give a much more detailed post in a few days to recap what I can since my last post!
I will give a much more detailed post in a few days to recap what I can since my last post!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
In the Desert (Without a horse with any name!)
Finally got out of Texas! A few days ago while sitting around the truck stop in San Antonio shooting the breeze with another hitchhiker, someone came up to us and asked if we could drive, we said sure. He was heading towards Phoenix to deliver a tow along RV. So both of us piled in and took off. I took first driving shift and drove for a few hours. Now my friend whom I've been trying to meet up with was working his way East. I had him get off in New Mexico, and I met up with him there and picked him up. We continued on and got off in Eloy, AZ.
During that time we decided to do an equipment shopping as he had a little bit of money to do so. So we got the bare essential equipment we needed. Also I managed to book us a hotel room for only a penny! That was amazing!
We took a taxi to Phoenix hoping it would be easyer to get out of there, though that was a mistake. The first night in Phoenix we decided to sleep in a park in Tempe. After a few hours a Park Ranger found us and gave us a ticket for being past curfew in the park, that was run in with the law #1. We boogied on over to another more quiet spot, and hung out there till morning. Come morning time a park ranger paid us another visit, run in with the law #2. This time no ticket though :).
We took some public transportation to the northern most section of Phoenix that we could, up near Happy Valley Rd. We tried hitching from there on the interstate, and up came a State Trooper, run in with the law #3. He gave us a warning and we moved on up to the on-ramp. Shortly afterward a Phoenix officer pulled up us, run in #4.
When we realized we weren't getting out of here that night, we decided to camp out under the bridge since it had a very large platform at the top, so we did that. We got up and we decided to try again in the morning so that we could get the hell out of there. Though we ended up just coming over here to this shopping plaza and hanging out today. Though it is ok because now we got a chance to recharge our phones, charge the laptop, and get on the internet.
After doing some research I have decided we will try to get about 10 miles up the road to a highway called Carefree! It is supposedly the best place to hitch north out of here, and easy to get to from where we are at.
I will check in again soon when I get a chance!
During that time we decided to do an equipment shopping as he had a little bit of money to do so. So we got the bare essential equipment we needed. Also I managed to book us a hotel room for only a penny! That was amazing!
We took a taxi to Phoenix hoping it would be easyer to get out of there, though that was a mistake. The first night in Phoenix we decided to sleep in a park in Tempe. After a few hours a Park Ranger found us and gave us a ticket for being past curfew in the park, that was run in with the law #1. We boogied on over to another more quiet spot, and hung out there till morning. Come morning time a park ranger paid us another visit, run in with the law #2. This time no ticket though :).
We took some public transportation to the northern most section of Phoenix that we could, up near Happy Valley Rd. We tried hitching from there on the interstate, and up came a State Trooper, run in with the law #3. He gave us a warning and we moved on up to the on-ramp. Shortly afterward a Phoenix officer pulled up us, run in #4.
When we realized we weren't getting out of here that night, we decided to camp out under the bridge since it had a very large platform at the top, so we did that. We got up and we decided to try again in the morning so that we could get the hell out of there. Though we ended up just coming over here to this shopping plaza and hanging out today. Though it is ok because now we got a chance to recharge our phones, charge the laptop, and get on the internet.
After doing some research I have decided we will try to get about 10 miles up the road to a highway called Carefree! It is supposedly the best place to hitch north out of here, and easy to get to from where we are at.
I will check in again soon when I get a chance!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Blackhole!
Man this city is a blackhole! Well I guess honestly I haven't been trying very hard the last few days. Instead I focused on making some money, and make some money I did.
I ran into an interesting local who happened to have some green, and he invited me to smoke with him the other day. He didn't have papers but I did, so he gave me enough herb to a roll a blunt! Worked for me, I rolled one for us and one for me for later!
Few hours after that it was rinse and repeat, gave me enough buds to roll another blunt, so I rolled up 2 J's. I love it when I get weed for free!
Suffice it to say I was quite baked all day that day, not very functional for much of anything else!
I had a ride that was supposed to take me to New Mexico tomorrow, but he fell through, so now I am back on the drawing board. I was supposed to meet my friend in San Fransisco but now he is moving closer towards me. We will end up meeting somewhere in the middle, god I just hope its not here in San Antonio.
Today will be my last day of farting around, gonna get out tomorrow and fly my sign and try to get out of here. Also going to try to network with some of the drivers and see if I can find a ride tonight that way.
Not much of an in detailed post, but I promise much better on the next post :).
I ran into an interesting local who happened to have some green, and he invited me to smoke with him the other day. He didn't have papers but I did, so he gave me enough herb to a roll a blunt! Worked for me, I rolled one for us and one for me for later!
Few hours after that it was rinse and repeat, gave me enough buds to roll another blunt, so I rolled up 2 J's. I love it when I get weed for free!
Suffice it to say I was quite baked all day that day, not very functional for much of anything else!
I had a ride that was supposed to take me to New Mexico tomorrow, but he fell through, so now I am back on the drawing board. I was supposed to meet my friend in San Fransisco but now he is moving closer towards me. We will end up meeting somewhere in the middle, god I just hope its not here in San Antonio.
Today will be my last day of farting around, gonna get out tomorrow and fly my sign and try to get out of here. Also going to try to network with some of the drivers and see if I can find a ride tonight that way.
Not much of an in detailed post, but I promise much better on the next post :).
Friday, March 26, 2010
Goodbye San Antonio?
I thought Houston was bad... This city is hard to get out of! I am still stuck here trying to get the hell out! Though it has been interesting.
The other day a black driver was looking for a CDL driver to help him deliver a load because he forgot his CDL at home. So I said sure, that is no problem! So I hopped in the truck and we headed over to the receiver down the street. Well they didn't like it and threatened to call the law on us! So we hightailed it out of there!
Now the interesting part is he whipped out a fat blunt, and you know I cannot refuse to toke on some herb! So a toking we went. In a few minutes I was so baked I barely knew what was going on! Man was that a fun day. So we tried it again yesterday early in the morning, and got it delivered! His boss payed me $30 for doing so, so it was a good deal I would say.
Time is getting too close to the line, I need to get out of here HOW! I may have a ride to Phoenix today, so we will see.
The other day a black driver was looking for a CDL driver to help him deliver a load because he forgot his CDL at home. So I said sure, that is no problem! So I hopped in the truck and we headed over to the receiver down the street. Well they didn't like it and threatened to call the law on us! So we hightailed it out of there!
Now the interesting part is he whipped out a fat blunt, and you know I cannot refuse to toke on some herb! So a toking we went. In a few minutes I was so baked I barely knew what was going on! Man was that a fun day. So we tried it again yesterday early in the morning, and got it delivered! His boss payed me $30 for doing so, so it was a good deal I would say.
Time is getting too close to the line, I need to get out of here HOW! I may have a ride to Phoenix today, so we will see.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Weather Delay
Well it looks like I may have to delay my California bound departure for tomorrow. San Antonio is under a thunderstorm advisory today and I am sure not going to go stand on the freeway in 40-50mph gusts with hail!
I guess it is a sort of a mixed blessing as my boy said he was going to get some buds today, so I don't mind sitting and waiting on that. In the meantime I can hang out here and try to find an outgoing ride from a fellow truck driver.
Been downloading a lot of music in the last few days, it is so refreshing to listen to the music that I love. It really fills me up with hopes and aspirations and inspires me to no end. I have my guitar back and I really want to play it but I don't like to in public, I need to get over that!
Anyway just thought I would give a quick update!
I guess it is a sort of a mixed blessing as my boy said he was going to get some buds today, so I don't mind sitting and waiting on that. In the meantime I can hang out here and try to find an outgoing ride from a fellow truck driver.
Been downloading a lot of music in the last few days, it is so refreshing to listen to the music that I love. It really fills me up with hopes and aspirations and inspires me to no end. I have my guitar back and I really want to play it but I don't like to in public, I need to get over that!
Anyway just thought I would give a quick update!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Time to Move On
Sitting here staring at my computer, listening to Neil Young, Greatful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and others of similar style while reading about others journeys coupled with sitting here in this one spot for quite a while and also getting ripped for a dime bag on my last 10 spot, it is really quite reflective. Wow what a run-on sentence that was huh? I guess I am just in a philosophical mood. I was really looking forward to getting good and stoned, but instead I am sober, but the ideas and thoughts that I looked forward to in an altered state of mind still seem to come to me anyways.
I sit thinking about the adventures that await, the feelings and emotions I will experience, where I will experience them, the things I want to accomplish in my life. Right now my current goal is to get up to San Francisco. I want to be there by the 25th, that gives me 6 days. Surely I can easily accomplish this goal if I keep myself focused and on track.
When I arrive there I look forward to meeting up with my best friend so that we can join together on this journey. From there I plan on hitching up near Portland Or. to visit a friend of mine. Seems like a great way to kill some time while I await for 4/20 to arrive.
I will trek back down into California for 4/20 in Arcata which is located in Humboldt County. Though it may not be the biggest 4/20 celebration in the nation, there is something magical about celebrating the day in one of the most famous locations in the USA and indeed the world for the growth of ganja.
I have looked at my journey up to this point as a learning and adjusting time. I am pretty well acclimated now to the lifestyle, and I feel it is time for a shift into a more spiritual experience. That is why I got ripped on $10 trying to get a dime bag of some green. I was really looking forward to getting good and stoned and enjoying a spiritual experience with it, though I guess I will just have to wait now wont I? It is OK, it is not the first time I have been ripped, I am sure it is some returning karma. Yeah it sucks but in the grand scheme of things it was only $10, there will be plenty of 10 spots to come back my way in the future.
I think I am also going to try to change my focus from hitching trucks to hitching cars. Cars generally are much faster, more often then not offer to share some ganja, and other then that it is just time for a change. Though until I can come up with some of the equipment I need, I am still going to try to stick to truck stops for my layovers in between.
Though my layover here in San Antonio didn't really happen the way I wanted it to, it was still a good refreshing layover. After getting my laundry washed, getting a shower, and some good productive internet time in, I feel refreshed and ready to move on. I sort of regret letting my buddy hold on to my guitar, now I have to wait for him to bring it back to me before I can proceed. I have been awake all night, so now I will have to sleep during the day which is going to throw off my schedule.
To a degree I am seeing who my true friends are in this situation. It is amazing to see who will really be there for you and who will just give a smile and say good luck, or will just flat out tell you you are stupid or crazy. I am really getting the feeling of being on my own, it is starting to sink in in a way I have never felt it before. Not that I am feeling 'lonely' or something, but starting to see the reality of being on my own. In some ways it is a scary feeling yet even more importantly it is an empowering feeling with a great sense of freedom and responsibility. It really makes me wish I had a more creative and impacting way of expressing my thoughts and my feelings for others to share. I really wish I was better at my guitar then I am. I wish I could sing even a little bit. I wish I was a better author then I am.
On the subject of authorship... There was a time years ago that I was really writing some awesome and inspiring things. Granted it was during a time of heavy mind altering substance abuse, but there was a creativity in my writing that I had never experienced before that point in time, nor afterward. There have been many times I have tried to rekindle that fire, yet in my mind nothing I write compares. I feel like my writing is rather crappy to be honest, that I cannot get my point across the way I would like, that I cannot infuse the emotion and feeling that I would like the story I am telling to convey. I am not much of a story teller either, so I guess I just do not have the articulation in language to express myself the way I would like. Nonetheless I will still write to the best of my ability and continue to share via this blog, I just wish I could convey some of the things I really wish to convey better then I am.
I am sort of feeling a need for support right now, so I ask that you guys start leaving some comments! I would like some feedback, and to know who is reading about my life! I really like to have a full interaction, so everyone please participate!
Until next time...
Peace, Love, and Happiness to all!
I sit thinking about the adventures that await, the feelings and emotions I will experience, where I will experience them, the things I want to accomplish in my life. Right now my current goal is to get up to San Francisco. I want to be there by the 25th, that gives me 6 days. Surely I can easily accomplish this goal if I keep myself focused and on track.
When I arrive there I look forward to meeting up with my best friend so that we can join together on this journey. From there I plan on hitching up near Portland Or. to visit a friend of mine. Seems like a great way to kill some time while I await for 4/20 to arrive.
I will trek back down into California for 4/20 in Arcata which is located in Humboldt County. Though it may not be the biggest 4/20 celebration in the nation, there is something magical about celebrating the day in one of the most famous locations in the USA and indeed the world for the growth of ganja.
I have looked at my journey up to this point as a learning and adjusting time. I am pretty well acclimated now to the lifestyle, and I feel it is time for a shift into a more spiritual experience. That is why I got ripped on $10 trying to get a dime bag of some green. I was really looking forward to getting good and stoned and enjoying a spiritual experience with it, though I guess I will just have to wait now wont I? It is OK, it is not the first time I have been ripped, I am sure it is some returning karma. Yeah it sucks but in the grand scheme of things it was only $10, there will be plenty of 10 spots to come back my way in the future.
I think I am also going to try to change my focus from hitching trucks to hitching cars. Cars generally are much faster, more often then not offer to share some ganja, and other then that it is just time for a change. Though until I can come up with some of the equipment I need, I am still going to try to stick to truck stops for my layovers in between.
Though my layover here in San Antonio didn't really happen the way I wanted it to, it was still a good refreshing layover. After getting my laundry washed, getting a shower, and some good productive internet time in, I feel refreshed and ready to move on. I sort of regret letting my buddy hold on to my guitar, now I have to wait for him to bring it back to me before I can proceed. I have been awake all night, so now I will have to sleep during the day which is going to throw off my schedule.
To a degree I am seeing who my true friends are in this situation. It is amazing to see who will really be there for you and who will just give a smile and say good luck, or will just flat out tell you you are stupid or crazy. I am really getting the feeling of being on my own, it is starting to sink in in a way I have never felt it before. Not that I am feeling 'lonely' or something, but starting to see the reality of being on my own. In some ways it is a scary feeling yet even more importantly it is an empowering feeling with a great sense of freedom and responsibility. It really makes me wish I had a more creative and impacting way of expressing my thoughts and my feelings for others to share. I really wish I was better at my guitar then I am. I wish I could sing even a little bit. I wish I was a better author then I am.
On the subject of authorship... There was a time years ago that I was really writing some awesome and inspiring things. Granted it was during a time of heavy mind altering substance abuse, but there was a creativity in my writing that I had never experienced before that point in time, nor afterward. There have been many times I have tried to rekindle that fire, yet in my mind nothing I write compares. I feel like my writing is rather crappy to be honest, that I cannot get my point across the way I would like, that I cannot infuse the emotion and feeling that I would like the story I am telling to convey. I am not much of a story teller either, so I guess I just do not have the articulation in language to express myself the way I would like. Nonetheless I will still write to the best of my ability and continue to share via this blog, I just wish I could convey some of the things I really wish to convey better then I am.
I am sort of feeling a need for support right now, so I ask that you guys start leaving some comments! I would like some feedback, and to know who is reading about my life! I really like to have a full interaction, so everyone please participate!
Until next time...
Peace, Love, and Happiness to all!
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