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Monthly Archives: August 2015

Travel Tips For Safety and Your Traveling Enjoyment

 

My biggest Muskie, at Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame! Caught my first two muskies on a fly 59 inches and 51 inches 2-casts, two muskie. Blew that 10,000 cast fable right out of the water! Had a great guide who knew where they lived in the rice, near Boulder Lake! Strip, strip 6-inch strips, bang!!!!!
My biggest Muskie, at Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wisconsin. Caught my first two muskies on a fly- 59 inches and 51 inches 2-casts, two muskie. Blew that 10,000 cast fable right out of the water! Had a great guide who knew where they lived in the rice, near Boulder Lake! Strip, strip 6-inch strips, bang!!!!! 6-pound smallmouth on the fly, fought harder, though!

APtravelnews-August 25th, Dallas, TX.–Barb and I travel by any mode possible in the U.S. Plane, train, motorcoach, car, bike, trek.  Tip (1) However, wherever we go we allow day in for decompression and a day out for decompression. Long hours in the travel mode takes a toll on your body and mind, so pace your selves and always add enough time for your “fun” trip rushing here and there is not the best option for fun, its a guarantee of burn-out! Tip (2) Wherever you go, pay attention to the water; don’t drink it if it’s not from a sealed trust-able bottle-period! What you put in your mouth, even when brushing your teeth, or washing up can be bad for your health. Tip(3) don’t buy food from street vendors, health requirements and food spoilage in too many countries is often not up to the highest cleanliness standards-don’t play Russian Roulette with you food (just ask my mom what happened to her in Morocco when she against our warning ate from a street vendor-it wasn’t pretty, but she did survive! This also goes for foreign restaurants as well. Make sure a trusted local advises as to where you eat.  Tip (4) Today, more than ever just don’t go where there is a high  possibility of danger. Check online and with the State Department of where there is the most possibility of “bad actors.” Then just don’t go there! Tip (5) Avoid traveling by air unless there just is no other way! Barb and I have a plan on this. If we have to travel (have to for business or pleasure) we drive if the location is 1000 or less miles. So, if we have to travel (have to is the key word here) well more than a thousand miles we fly or if we can take the train. Always remember; flying is costly beyond the stupid airfare-car rental, the hassle of being on someone else’s time-clock! Tip (6) research before you travel, not when you get to your destination. This way you can adjust your schedules, find places that are a must-visit beyond the brochures and check out trip advisories and “real” travelers comments on what they experienced where you will be going to stay, play and feed your selves with!

Well, that’s enough to digest for now, but always remember when you leave your home you are always at the mercy of the world at large, just in a bigger way than the general safety of your home turf!

Dallas Texas to Plano Tackle Boxes

Plano is a picturesque city next to Dallas, TX.

#1 Plano, Texas

APtravelnews-August 24th, Plano, Texas–After a twelve hour drive, we arrived in Plano, TX. through Dallas. We, Dennis Macalister, President of Click-It Hot and I will be at the Dallas Convention Center with the Click-It Hot booth all set up, to provide for the needs of truckers and their families for their need of pain and relief during the colder months of the year.

The Dallas Convention Center is holding the largest trucking show in the world. This event, if you do, or don’t drive a big rig truck is a lalapalooza! About every truck and innovation designed for trucks and the trucker, in safety and comfort will be on display this coming Thursday through Saturday of this week.  See Dallas Truck Show on the web.

A Click-It Hot for any body part: neck and shoulder, hand and legs, back-anywhere theirs pain or warmth is important as in ice fishing, hunting, boating, birding, etc.
A Click-It Hot for any body part: neck and shoulder, hand and legs, back-anywhere theirs pain or warmth is important as in ice fishing, hunting, boating, birding, or trucking on down the road too! 

Water Water Everywhere, Especially Inside Us All!

From the miasma, life came! But only due to water being created by G-D's plan of nature!
From the miasma, life came! But only due to water being created by G-D’s plan of nature!

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APtravelnews- August 21st–Goose Holler’ Farm, TN.—Water!  H2O is a whole lot more than just being wet, thirsty and clean. Water is life itself!

All water that was ever on, and in earths atmosphere, going back to the beginning is still here. We and all animal and plant life are predominantly made up of water. The problem with water today  is how it’s used and abused, wasted to undrinkable, flushed away and mixed with dangerous unnatural chemical compounds rendering it useless and unhealthy for the support of life and most important of all; taken for granted. Just ask anyone in California if today, they take water for granted, or the peoples of desertification all over the arid nations of the world, how they think of water! The bottom line is; today with a world population of billions and compare these numbers to the few millions of peoples of the past, water is being used by a modern, unprecedented amounts of peoples and businesses from agricultural to every possible niche in every aspect of life’s uses and needs, from direct need in human waste and hydration needs, to every social and business requirement. Take a look at Las Vegas, it’s fountains and pools, lawn and landscape watering, and what are they about to do? Take down the big lake that Hoover Dam has created. Las Vegas is frantic now that wonderful dry heat they tout also is evaporating waters by a factor of 20-percent per day!

According to an article in Eating Well March and April 2015 “fully 50-percent of your water footprint is devoted to your diet (food and drink) think about this: just one cup of tea takes 9-gallons of water to create that tiny bit of tea. 1 oz. of chocolate needs 127 gallons to create that cocoa bean. For a 3-oz. piece of beef it takes 347 gallons, an oz. of almonds-120 gallons, a 3 oz. piece of chicken 98-gallons, a cup of coffee 34 gallons, a glass of wine 24 gallons to make that vine that matures and offers those grapes.” A few more general stats and tips: The daily water footprint of the average American is 2000 gallons per day (both direct and indirect usages) that’s about double the worldwide average and this is an  equivalent of running the dishwasher 400 times. When taking a 10-minute shower you use about 25-gallons.  Aiming for a 5-minute shower or less and you can save about 300-gallons a month.” Look I can go on and on, but bottom line is; where it’s possible to save water, or anything we routinely use. Think about all the possibilities and act. You can save a whole lot more than just dollars! Remember many new companies who have started up bottled water businesses in the recent past are all now highly successful multi-million dollar businesses. Quality of water injected with chlorine for purification bred a whole new enterprise out of need!

Florida Keys Matecumbe Historical Trust Event Coming Up

APtravelnews–August 19th, the Florida Keys–Barb and I lived in the Keys for 3-decades and every summer we stressed a bit wondering if we would have to worry about the Hurricane Season! Some years were quiet, some we had to evacuate. Then for us the big cane; Andrew more than made up for all the quieter years during Hurricane Season. Thats when I became Official Photographer for FEMA, after the big cane in the early 90’s. Well, the Keys was mostly spared, but south Miami and communities south did not! It was a major calamity in the scope of Hurricane Katrina, that slammed New Orleans and surroundings!

Well, there is an old saying that goes like this: If you forget the past, don’t be surprised when you are once again presented with it in the present (or something like that). The Matecumbe Historical Trust wants to make sure that history helps remind us all that we should never take any natural disaster for granted and that it is just a matter of time before the past is repeated! 
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