Cheetah Alliance

On June 12, 2013 I arrive in Kenya for a 21-day 'Bees on Safari' with Prince Sam Bananah, aka Prince of Bees where he will give bee seminars on sustainable bee farming.  We begin with five days in Gilgil where Wana Duma Children's Project with Sam's guidance is building the sustainable orphanage on land given to them by the chief.  Using Apiculture as part of Permaculture and bio-gas technology using cow dung for fuel, our intent is to provide sustainable orphanages and sustainable habitats…

After living practically on top of the highway in Lahaina for 14 years and despite the 40 year old rumor that the Lahaina bypass would be a good thing for Lahaina, one can always hope. The Honoapiilani Highway is the only road that connects the west side with the 'otha side'. When I moved to Lahaina in 1987, there was only one traffic light at the corner of Lahainaluna and the Highway. The highway itself was only two lanes...one this way and one the otha way. The first day I looked at the…

Before I go to the UK I meet with Barb, my kinisiologist to get a read on my bearings. I had told her about the mixup where Doris had bought the tickets under Bonnie Nelson and that since Delta wouldn't change the name to fit my passport that I had bought a second ticket under Blackmore in first class. I was trying to follow the flow and had resigned myself to the fact that I was simply going to lose the $1600 for the Nelson ticket. This was symbolic to me as Nelson was leaving the country…

I'm sitting in a movie theater in Kaahumanu Center watching a stupid movie asking myself why I don't just walk out and go home.  The answer is immediate.  Even a bad movie is better than listening to power tools.  This is our second day of glorious sun after two and half weeks of solid rain and wind.  It is Monday after the agony of the Bronco defeat and thrill of the Niners victory.  Today the fast and furious game begins to trim, wack, hack, mow, blow, dig and set new telephone poles…