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"The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic."
~ Jack London         
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Need to get away? Want to do so in style? Try this place. Hale Honu (“Home of the Turtle”) is a vacation home in Pauoa Beach Estate at Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.  The home is just 30 minutes from Kona airport, served by direct flights from the mainland.
Kylie Harris and guitar
Trust me on this -- you just have to hear this Kiwi sing!  Luckily for us Americans, New Zealand's favorite daughter Kylie lives here in the states.  And now she hosts GAC's On the Edge of Country!  And to think I knew her back when ...

Living around the San Francisco Bay, we know the bay enhances the quality of our lives and effects how we live. And it turns out that how we live effects the quality of the bay! Rains wash all sorts of things off our hills and valleys into the bay -- and not all of it what nature intended.


If you have lived in Northern California long you may remember the gliders soaring above Mt. St Helena from the Calistoga Gliderport located on the main street of Calistoga; or perhaps you recall the Cotati Naval Landing Field. Sadly, these and other airports serving small towns in Northern California have been closed or displaced by tract homes. But, as this site proves, these airports are not altogether forgotten.