Get into your element

So I made a big purchase in late october I think it was and totally forgot to blog it. So here it is. Simple and short. I've been eyeing this thing for awhile and finally decided to charge it.

Here is a view for all you Hawaii peeps out there. Keepin my roots.


You'll notice the Hawaiian islands in red and the hula girl on my dashboard. My hula girl has gotten me through many long days ha. Stoked on my car and can't wait to road trip with it on a surf trip. Perfect for such adventures with the spacious room and the rubber flooring.
Cheers!

If I married a Lebanese....Hmmm

This is a rad picture of the country Lebanon. I would say it looks like a place I would love to see and explore. I don't know much about lebanon but it could offer some good pictures and an awesome adventure for sure. After doing little research on Lebanon, I found out there is a couple surf spots in one area called batroun. I would not move there unless I could have a surf break somewhat close. Where im getting with all this is this past friday I went with some friends to a authentic Lebanese/Middle Eastern restaurant for dinner. Anyone who knows me well understands im a simple eater. Love cereal and other simplistic food. I decided if im going to travel I need to just try different things and why not start now. I told my friends this would decide if I could marry a lebanese woman and move to the middle east.

This is the place we went to eat
The next picture displays an authentic drink from the Lebanon area. Its called "Limeade".
It was decent but really tangy and sourish. Nothing your chugging down. I finished a half a glass in an hour.

This next picture is a digital replica of the food I ate. The sandwich to your right is a "Mediterranean steak and cheese sandwich" with there local sauce and spices on it. It was actually pretty good. Second thing you notice is the little pizza. It was a Lamb pizza with onions and some other local lebanese sauce. It tasted more like an onion wrapped with bread and minor sauce. Not stoked on the pizza at all.

So... Comes the question... Would I marry a lebanese woman? I don't currently know any at the moment so I don't think its a big worry or decision I have to make but if I had to decide I think I could survive but not be super happy.

Where you been hiding.....

Sorry i have been MIA for the last little while. This picture should explain whats been keeping me super busy.


I have been shoveling so much freaking snow! Unfortunately its how i make my benjamins. In the summer its landscaping and winter is snow removal. I run a crew and work insane long, late, cold hours. I know your laughing since most peeps who are reading this know how much i dislike being cold and love the sun. It is helping me stash the cash to travel or move back to Hawaii. But seriously its been snowing non-stop.

On to more important things. My christmas was epic as always and got hooked up with some cash and other cool stuff. The cash was an important role in my goal to travel and explore my new hobby. Here is what a little cash gets you.

im super stoked to use it for blogging but most of all traveling and documenting my trips and adventures and making photo books online. Eeee!

The Californias.... EPIC

So after being oceanless for the summer i made up my mind i needed a surf trip. Due to one of my buddies not having a passport and me probably being super rusty at surfing we decided to venture to my third home... Southern California. I LOVE CALIFORNIA! I've been going there for years since i was like two years old. I try to go there every year on a trip. So back in mid september we packed, booked our hotel and got all psyched for our trip. Traverls: Spencer Pearson (long time neighborhood friend) aka douchey (i'll explain the nicknames later; James jolley (good buddy on the mission) aka rashy; and me aka Beardy. We headed out at 5AM to make good time.

We made a pit stop for a soda and bathroom and came across this hickside of Utah.

We got back on the road till we hit st george where my pops was so we decided to fill up with gas and pay a visit to him while he was at our condo.

So as we were cruising to vegas we made another nessacary stop to make this trip more epic.
and if your looking for the best burger in vegas, DONT go to average in n outs but too.....

Even Notorious BIG raps about this. Sorry In n out fans. Our buddy spencer also won huge money in vegas playing roulette. $400 to be exact. So we get back on the road and head for the beautiful destination. On the way there we had been in the car pretty long and spencer and I had to entertain ourselves. We see this guy driving next to us in a white mercedes or bmw with his wife and another couple in the back with the license plate "MASHY". ha ha Maybe you had to be there but we kept cracking jokes like "hey Mashy thats quite the party you threw the other night. or Hey look everyone its Mashy. ha ha He just seemed like the schmoozer type and played tennis at a club and had pool parties where everyone knew him ha ha So spencer and I started calling james different names that ended in E sound. I had a beard thus called Beardy. Spencer pulled a douche move and cut tons of people off while driving and our friend jolly got a rash from surfing. So when we finally arrived in Laguna where we were staying we didn't waste anytime. Everyday was filled with rad adventures and cool people. Every morning we started our day off right with a light breakfast at
... Every morning we went in and visited with the asian lady that owned the donut shop and she would ask what cool things we had planned and gave us life advice. She was such a rad lady. I can't remember what day we did everything but I will just show the pictures and explain. Here we went Mini golfing one of our favorite things to do. The game got intense as dinner was on the line. James and I tied so we played paper rock scissors for the dinner and he won! We lit off fire works while haning out with some friends in san diego and blamed it on James aka rashy.
We ate good food while we were there.



My generous nice sister hooked us up with second row seats fro the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Here is a short story about karma. So after surfing we were driving back to the hotel. We decided to stop for gas on the way. As spencer and i are feeling up this gentlemen approaches us. He was prob in his mid 50's and dressed casually nice. He asked us if we had five dollars to get gas. We were kinda shocked that this older nice dressed man driving a mustang was asking us for money. He said when he went to pay he had left his wallet but if we could lend him some money he would send us a check in the mail. Spencer and I each gave him five or ten bucks and told him not to worry about it but to promise to help someone else out in need. So later that night we decided to go to the LA Angels baseball game. I was pretty excited since this was the first Major League game i've been to. We go to buy tickets and they said the cheapest they had were $65 seats. We couldn't afford that and were way bummed. So before we left i wanted to get pictures outside the stadium when this random guy comes out of nowhere and asks us if we have tickets. We told him we didn't and he handed us three tickets and told us to enjoy the game. We tried to pay him but he walked off and said don't worry about it. I have no doubt what goes around comes around. Karma is so real. Here is proof

We were so lucky and grateful. We went and saw the stars on the side walk


We hung out with birds!
Met this girl christina playing guitar on the street. She is pretty good and is on i tunes.
took random pictures


We went Deep Sea Fishing and caught at least five each but spencer caught nine i think. Our Captain, Jack, was mormon and hooked us up with some extra gear. He's the guy in the middle of the group shot

Deep sea fishing is one of the funnest things to do and you should try it if you ever get the chance.
We saw Palm Trees
And Finally we spent majority of our time in the Water! Of course we don't have many pictures because no one wanted to stay on the beach. The last few days it was the foggiest i've ever seen So cal and it lasted for a few days pretty much nonstop.You'll see a random guy destroying the wave with his sick skills.


I was able to take my fish board down and it felt so good being back on my board and in the water.Im super grateful that I was able to take this trip with some friends. I love to travel. I will never forget this epic trip.

Sleep through the static

I know im totally lagging on this but i had to post it. So im gonna brief you real quick so this all makes sense. Back in the winter semester at BYU Hawaii I was in the final semester of school and being club President for the schools best club, Ocean Appreciation Club which my good friend Matt Gates and I had started the end of my first semester there. In short we organized beach clean ups and worked with surf organizations and surf shops on the north shore to make a good connection with the community. My last semester there we had an amazing opportunity (much mahalos to my good friend Julie) to help jack johnson's Kokua Foundation organize a HUGE beach clean up for them in support of his annual Kokua music festival. I had the honor to work closely with the good people of Kokua foundation and especially Kim Johnson, Jack's wife. After this successful event and a few days before my departure back to Utah, Kim Johnson called me to come to her hous for an interview to work with them. Long story short when Jack came to play in slc they hooked me up with the COOLEST night ever.... BACKSTAGE PASSES. It was so fun to hang out with all the bands behind the scene and to see my good friends from hawaii again. The show was EPIC! My friend porter and i were able to stay on the side of the stage the whole night. It was such an awesome feeling too see how it all works and to hang out with all of those people. We hung out with the Neil Halstead band quite a bit of the night. They were so nice and funny. They are from england and we talked about surfing all night. When Jack came on it was so rad to be on stage as he came out. You could feel the energy from the crowd and see the faceless people waiting to hear him play. It was such an awe struck feeling knowing that he gets this reaction every show. The show was so fun and him and his wife were so kind to us. HUGE Mahalos to Kim Johnson for the tickets. Check out this epic night. I'll try to upload the video

Here is Neil Halstead. Such a good musician and rad guy

Here is the whole Neil Halstead band in action. Check out there music

Reppn it on stage


What they do when their not playing music. Jack's ping pong table

The second band Rogue Wave. Not my favorite

Jack and the band arrive on stage

Zach Gill jammin out on the MELODICA! Keeled it

Zach, Jack, Guy from rogue wave, and Neil Halstead jamming

Jack on guitar and Zach on accordian

Jack playing solo

Jack on the Uke Hawaiian style

Me, Neil, and Porter chillin after the show

Maybe we all just fall to pieces

I was so stoked this week to FINALLY get this new cd i have been waiting for. His name is MAT MCHUGH. not MATT but MAT. He is the lead singer for the beautiful girls. They are on of my favorite bands. They come out of australia and are so good. He decided to do a side project of some acoustic stuff he had been working on and tried a little solo thing. No worries. He has not left the beautiful girls. I totally recommend this cd. Check it out on i tunes. The album is called separatista. It is pretty chill and does a version of "ring the alarm" a classic sublime song. Also if you don't know me well and i haven't burned you any cds check out the beautiful girls. They have acoustic/roots reggae/dub sound. It is way chill. Let me know what ya think of the stuff by leaving a comment.