a fun way to meet people...

Hitchhiking is a great alternative for getting around our cosmic hamlet by the sea.

In Kauai hitchhiking is safe and acceptable, many started out on kauai without cars and hitchhiked themselves. There are good & bad area's to hitch, you always want to be where the traffic is slowest in the area and where there is a safe spot to pullover.

Most people would not consider hitchhiking or picking up a hitchhiker in most major US cities, one of the many beauties of Kauai is that hitching is safe, reliable, fun and environmentally user friendly. I hitchhike regularly from Kilauea to Kapa'a and have never waited more than 15 minutes for a ride, I am not a beautiful woman and people still stop. I have been picked up by visitors wanting to know things to do that aren't in the tour guides, I have been picked up by young and old, male and female, from island beaters to brand new four wheel drive pickups.

Why not give tax incentives for people to hitch-hike and people to pickup hitchhikers. Imagine if every time you hitched it was worth $10.00 and every time you picked up a hitchhiker it was worth a 10.00 credit towards a write-off on ones taxes? There could be designated hitching stops for safe pickups and drop-offs.

Hitchhiking would allow people to meet their neighbors save gas and keep the environment cleaner. Hitchhiking is not only environmentally friendly but a fun way to socialize and meet people.

To expedite getting a ride do not wear sunglasses or have direct eye contact with on-coming cars and look relaxed. I have met many good friends by hitching.If you have never hitchhiked, try it you'll like it.

Osama Bin Laden, does not exist...

" In yesterdays Kauai garden island newspaper there was a great editorial on why the U.S. attacked Iraq...

Here's what the article stated, " critics of the war in Iraq have long contended that the real reason why the US invaded was so US oil companies could grab control of Iraq's vast oil reserves." " Even former Reserve board chairman Alan Greenspan wrote, " The Iraq war is largely about oil' in his memoir.

Now for all you conspiracy theorists out there, my friend in Honolulu believes that Osama Bin Laden, does not exist.

My friend Chester Lau a Korean war veteran states the following of which I totally agree,"No Merry Christmas & Happy New Year for our Military30,000 plus economically poor US military & their families will not have a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year while the war profiteers are enjoying their blood money created by the GW Bush propaganda machine on a false Osama Bin Laden that never existed !!! There is no such a person as OBL,any Hollywood Make Up artist can create a false OBL with long gray beard & sneaky eyes from any goat wrangler !!!

After 8 years ,we were doped to believe a lie invent by the war profiteers & the controlled medias !!! in the name of national defense,we keep making enemies killing one goat wrangler after another so two will replace him with hate & endless wars,when will this end? President Obama ,say this is Not true!!! you can rescind this Afghanistan troop surge order,declare victory & 'Advance' forward out of Iraq & Afghanistan,rebuild our own economy ,health care & a military second to none to help all people to include our decease ,wounded veterans & their families,we owe them so much for our freedom, Keep both eyes on Al Qaeda,if they even blink their evil eyes on us,commence world war 2 Dresden type bombing on suspected goat wranglers,if their civilian population do not self police the evil doers,they are also guilty as part of the problem.

SUPPORT OUR MILITARY ,do not abuse their lives on unnecessary wars for political & private financial gains,SUPPORT OUR MILITARY,BRING THEM HOME ALIVE NOW !!!"Now this is something to ponder...