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Orange Sauce with Hibachi Dinner

Have you ever been to a Japanese Restaurant before? If so, then you already know the great food and sauces they serve up. If not, then you really should try a couple of different places and find one that you like. The Japanese food is so much better than Chinese food. Just something simple, like fried rice, tastes like a million bucks, when the Japanese do it, as opposed to the Chinese.

If you don’t like to eat sushi, there is other choices to eat. Just order a hibachi dinner with steak, chicken, shrimp, or combo a couple of these things. I usually eat the steak with fried rice. This meal will come with a regular sirloin steak, mixed vegetables, rice (steamed or fried), soup, and a salad for starters. Most places will give the consumer all of this, but I always tell them to keep the soup and salad. I do like to eat salads, but they are usually just a plain salad with only a couple of choices of salad dressing.

Steak Hibachi Dinner

For those who have a few extra dollars, you can order the filet Mignon, to get a better cut of steak with your hibachi dinner. I like the filet Mignon better, but not 2 dollars better. I will save the 2 bucks, to get the sirloin steak, as to pay more and get the better cut of beef. The chicken is really good too, but I always choose the steak over it. It is nice when I have a little extra money and I can add some shrimp to my steak hibachi dinner.

What is that great tasting orange sauce called? I always wondered this, but never could understand what the servers were saying. It always sounded like “yum yum” sauce, when I asked what the orange sauce was called. I finally have figured out the answer and guess what? The great-tasting orange sauce, which is served with hibachi dinners, is indeed called Yum Yum sauce. You can buy the Yum Yum Sauce in your local grocery store. You can also search online for Yum Yum Sauce Recipes and make your own homemade yum yum sauce. So if you didn’t know the name of the sauce with hibachi dinners at Japanese restaurants, it is called yum yum sauce. No joke and your server is not just trying to be funny, because you know some of those that come out to cook your food, can be very funny at times, as they entertain us with their cooking skills. Their skills, the quality of the food, and the yumyum sauce is the only things you need to know, for you to try a good Japanese restaurant sometime! Please come back here and let me know what you thought?

I plan to go camping some this summer. Eventually I would like to start my own camping tours company in North Georgia. My favorite two things to do while camping is fishing and prospecting for gold. I think it would be fun to teach new hikers and campers some of my own camping tips and tricks. I would love to lead a group of campers into the wilderness with only their Osprey Backpacks and the clothes on their backs, as the only items they could bring. If you couldn’t stuff it into a stylish backpack; then you could not bring it. My camping trips would be a little rugged and I would try to toughen up my group a little.

After we hiked for 3 to 5 miles into the middle of no where, I would like to show them the different things Mother Nature has to offer us. Like the plants we could eat and the ones to stay away from (like poison oak and poison ivy). There would have to be water nearby. We would need fresh water for drinking. We all know we can live weeks without food, but 2 or 3 days without water, we are in serious danger.

I would also like to teach the campers how to pan for gold in these North Georgia mountain streams, creeks, and rivers. There is a lot of natural gold, which makes its way into the Georgia waterways every year. Each member of my camping team would be able to keep all the gold they found. If any person didn’t find any gold on his or her own; then I would be sure to have some extra samples available for handing out.

Right now, my state of Georgia doesn’t have anything like this. I think it would be a big hit with the residents of Georgia. I even believe some nature lovers would travel from neighboring states, so they could go on one of my gold-finding camping trips. Each trip would contain a little about nature and a whole lot of information about gold. Like where to find it, how to prospect it, and teach everyone just how valuable an ounce of gold is today. I’m not sure how long it will take me to get this camping tours company up and running, but I know it will be in the near future sometime!

The Alabama and LSU College Football Game

Who will be your team this Saturday? Two great teams. Two SEC teams. Two southern teams with real college football talent. Obviously we have a lot of teams in college football every year, who should not be in the top 10 or even 25 in some cases. Just about each year, you can find 8 to 10 college teams in the South; which would make up the top 12 in NCAA College Football anytime.

Some critics and fans of college football, think the system in place now is good. Their reasons are, because fans spend so much time talking about it and making it the main talk around the water cooler at work. Actually this isn’t true anymore or like it was years ago. The day college football decided to let a over rated USC Trojan Team, who got beat by a slightly better but still over rated Texas Longhorns team for a college football championship; was the day the South got disrespected. Texas and USC both have easy schedules every year. The South can’t produce undefeated teams, cause the teams here have talent and you play in so many quality football games each week. Auburn Tigers were undefeated and were still held out of the biggest game of the year; when Texas beat USC for a fake college championship. The real champions were the Auburn Tigers; which featured 2 NFL starting running backs in Ronnie Brown from Cartersville, Georgia and Cadillac Williams. Not to mention, their QB was pretty good too, and he was an NFL starter, Jason Campbell.

So we in the South, we play our own college football championships. This will be one of them this Saturday; when the LSU Tigers, number one in the whole USA land, will lock horns with a solid Crimson Tide team from Alabama. I love the Bama running game and the Tigers will have to find a way to stop it. Not stopping the run game, allows Alabama to control the clock, eat up precious time, and force LSU’s explosive offense to stay on the sideline. If Bama gets the run game going, I will throw them a bone and say they win 37  to 27 on Saturday.

If the LSU team opens it up fast and keeps the offensive play-calling exciting, it could spell a long day for the home team. No home field advantage for any team who has to host the talented Tigers from Baton Rouge. If the cooking was in Louisiana, we might not even have to play this game. Giving Bama the homefield with their loyal and historic college football fans, I think LSU will have limiting scoring. Keep in mind, the LSU Tigers could put up 50 points on any given Saturday. If the Tigers played in the Pac 12 of college football, they would be scoring 60 and 70 point games and this includes over rated schools like Oregon and Stanford, who have no business in the top 10 right now. Yes, I saw the Cardinal color showing at 4th in the nation right now in the polls. But let’s face it, 3 strikes in baseball and you’re out. Why did Stanford strike out 3 times; when they played an unranked USC team?  They got strike 1, when they couldn’t beat them in regulation. Strike 2 with the 2nd failure of the night, when they didn’t win the 1st overtime period. Not beating a poor and less-talented USC team in the 2nd overtime was the third strike and Stanford is NOT top 10 material in the nation right now. They haven’t played anyone! So this LSU team from the bayous of Louisiana would put up a 55 to 13 score on this over rated Cardinal team.

However, LSU doesn’t have the luxury of facing an over rated West Coast College Football Team. They have to play in the South Eastern Conference. You know the one, that keeps producing champion after champion in college football. I think if LSU does it right, with great offense and limiting the Bama run gam, we could see the 31 to 10 score and the Tigers sealing their faith at number 1 this year. Alabama would drop out of the top 5 if this does happen and really, the guys running the BCS have already made up their minds, that the loser goes back to 7 – 9 in the polls. So the loser is going to get the worse end of the deal.

*To recap my two predictions. I have two scores and two winners:

**Alabama Wins – We see a final score of: 37 to 27

*** LSU Wins – We see a final score of 31 to 10

Which is the most likely thing to happen on Saturday? I think the obvious for Saturday, is that the LSU offense and defense (possibly) will cross the endzone line a few times and will get 27 or more points, against a really good and solid Alabama defense. Since the Crimson Tide lost Nick Fairley to the NFL, when the Detroit Lions drafted him, I think they are not as good as most give them credit for. I can see LSU exposing this line and put 27 points up, with the help of a defensive score too.

Future 1st Round NFL Draft Pick – Trent Richardson

Bama is the wildcard here. I see them running all day on LSU and having a solid 10 point victory over the Tigers. If Trent Richardson rushes for 87 yards or less; then my pick goes to LSU winning by 21 points. He has to reach the 88 yard mark, for the Crimson Tide fans to have something to scream and yell about on Saturday Night.

Tyrann Mathieu – Defensive Playmaker and Future NFL Star

On the other side of the line, don’t forget about a couple of great LSU defensive players. The Nation got an early preview of Tyrann Mathiue, as he basically shut down Oregon by his self in Dallas Cowboy Stadium. Keep in mind fans, just how the BCS, rich boosters of the Pac 12, and the football media and system saw Oregon and LSU. During this game, the LSU Tigers were the underdog, cause they were ranked 4th and Oregon was the 3rd ranked team in the Nation. The reason college football does this, is because they know the Southern Teams will get lots of chances to prove their self and move up in the rankings. Teams like Oregon, USC Trojans, and Boise State are always getting ranked too high to begin with, cause they have less quality opponents. LSU spanked Oregon so bad in this game. The final 40 to 27 score makes Oregon look bad enough as it is, but the game was much worse than this. After the mighty Tigers from LSU completely shut down “Oregon’s mighty offense” (which is over rated); the LSU Tigers were comfortably ahead 30 to 13 going into the final 15 minutes of the game. This awesome offense that ESPN tries to make us believe each week, is nothing and LSU showed it. Oregon scored 6 points, 7 points, and 0 points in the first 3 quarters and never did squat against a true Division I College Football Team. Oregon managed to get 14 in the final quarter, as the Tigers put their 2nd and 3rd string players in, and Oregon kept 1st string offense in the whole football game.

The South has the best football and get teams like Stanford and Oregon out of the top 10 teams in the Nation. Let’s face it, Georgia Tech is 100 times better than the USC Trojans; yet the GT Yellow Jackets are ranked #22; while the #21 USC Trojans moved into the Top 25, after a loss!!! That shows how corrupted the landscape and polls are in college football. Stanford is awarded credit for a 3 overtime game they won; when they almost lost and really should have. Since it was an unranked team, they still got awarded a solid victory and moved from #6 in the nation to the number 4 team in the country this week. On the flip side, they give USC credit for taking the number 6 team to 3 overtimes and even though you still lost the game, we will move you up above Georgia Tech. Because after all, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets only beat a tough, non-defeated team in the Clemson Tigers.

*Unranked USC Trojans Loses to a Top Ten Team = #21 in the Nation

*Unranked G.T. YellowJackets beats a Top Ten Team (by double digits) = #22 in the Nation

Beware of USC Trojans college fans. For all of you guys in high school, who are looking to play for a division I school. Don’t get recruited by the USC Trojans. They are on punishment now for paying players and their families and this is still happening and the NCAA will be punishing them again in the near future. Kirk Herbstreet and Brent Musberger can quit spreading this Pac 12 favors over your nationally televised TV game on ABC each Saturday. You guys clearly have a division and a USC Team you get paid under the table to promote on National TV. High School Players Avoid USC Trojans Football Program!

****I will post the REAL TOP 10 FOOTBALL TEAMS in AMERICA right now!

So now, luckily we have a way of working things out in the South. We got our own championship and two teams that has to work their way to the top; while playing solid teams each week from the South. Congratulations to the LSU Tigers for being the top team in the nation now and protecting our southern heritage. Congratulations to the Alabama Crimson Tide, for keeping the South protected, in case of a slip by LSU or a few illegal votes or cash payments, coming from the crooked USC Boosters Football Program and the rest of the PAC 12 Football Corruption.

The South doesn’t have to rise again. We have already risen! And it all started; when Jason Campbell from the Auburn Tigers, was not allowed to hand the ball to Ronnie Brown from Catersville and Cadillac Williams in a National Football Championship Game. Auburn Tigers are the real college football champions; when the record books credit Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns. Good luck to all the players, coaches, fans, and everyone else from the Alabama Football Program and the LSU Football Program; for playing in the REAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL SUPER BOWL FOR 2011!

Smokers who like their cigars will travel many miles for them. I know living here in the States, we always see the cigars from Cuba as the best cigars in the World. I haven’t ever really smoked that many cigars. I wouldn’t know the difference between a cheap tasting cigar or a nice premium cigar, like the romeo julieta brand of smokes. There have been a few times I wanted to celebrate, so me and some buddies would buy cigars for the celebration moments.

I know it is a strong craving to get a good cigar, for those who like to smoke or just chew on them. For some reason, a cigar is something pleasant to chew on. I never wanted to chew on a cigarette, but I guess the tobacco is different.

Whatever the reason may be, it seems a lot of the best cigars in the World have to be imported in, to the U.S.A. territories. I guess American companies who work with and sell tobacco, have not mastered the fine art of a good cigar yet. Or it may just be the finest growing tobacco for cigars, is not grown locally here in the States. A state like North Carolina is famous for their cigarettes and all the tobacco crops you see in that state. I have driven the tobacco roads in Carolina. You can see tobacco as far as the eye can see. It’s a neat sight, for those who have never seen the tobacco farms in North Carolina.

I would just like to ask my readers, what they think makes up a good cigar. Is it the tobacco? Or just a special and secret way foreign nations like Cuba, have so much luck with perfecting the best cigars in the World? I also wonder who was the first man to hand out cigars, when he became a father at the hospital?

Guest post written by Lily Cooper

I love cold weather, but there are lots of things that I have to put myself through to still make it bearable. Most of the time it just means that I try to go out in the cold for limited amounts of time, but it has a lot to do with food. I love being able to get in from the cold and eating some really delicious hot food. I was in the mood for something like that this past weekend but I couldn’t decide on what to fix.

I went online to find some recipes for stuff that would be good for that. I was thinking breakfast food anyway, so at least I had a place to start. While I was looking through recipes for ideas, I came across some broadband plans on special and looked through them a little bit. After I did that I showed it to my roommate and we signed up for one of them.

I decided to make some biscuits and gravy, which made for a perfect brunch on Sunday morning. I’m going to have to fix them a few more times before the weather warms up though!

There are certain things in life I would like to own, but I am scared to own them. For instance, I would love to have a boat. It is a lot of fun on the lake. I love a hot summer day and being on the lake in a boat, just as the sun is going down and the temperatures begin to cool. I am afraid to buy a boat, because I don’t want to get stuck on the lake. What does boaters do, when their boat stops working out on the water? It isn’t like you can walk to the nearest gas station. You are left helpless, until you either fix the boat yourself or get a motor mechanic to fix the problem. This is a scary job to repair.

I love motor homes and would love to drive across the country in one. I worry about this breaking down too. You can walk to the nearest gas station, but what are the chances they know how to do a motor home repair for your broken down motorhome? I would think mechanics for these beautiful campers are rare to find. It also takes a special towing vehicle to remove the motor home from the side of the road.

Do you share some of these same fears as I do about repairs? Have you ever passed up on a 50 inch TV or a large screen television, because you knew if it needs repairing, it will be a lot harder to do? I want a giant camper or motorhome with a small trailer carrying my fishing boat around on the roads. I’m just scared my RV or recreational vehicle will need service repairs. Or the boat will leave me stranded in the middle of the lake. How do you over come these fears? To buy the items you want most in life. I’m sure there are others out there too; who share my same concerns. I just wonder if consumers must be brave sometimes?

Celtics Eddie House Holds Finger Gun To McGrady’s Head in Anger

Its that time of the year in the NBA. This is when teams are not quite where they want to be in the standings, players are tired, coaches are frustrated, and fewer fans are coming to the arenas. All of these things build up and create poor sportsmanship on the court. Parents shouldn’t feel safe letting their kids watch a team like the Boston Celtics for instance. I like to use the word “thug players” which describes a basketball player, who is not interested in playing basketball. The thug player is just someone out to cause trouble. We saw this in Kevin Garnett, when his Celtic team traveled to Phoenix to take on the Suns. Before the cheap shot KGtook on another Suns player, when he just hit him in the groin area for no reason, Garnett had already did things earlier in the game that wasn’t seen or called. Kevin Garnett has turned into a thug player recently and you can thank his Boston Celtic teammates for this.

Paul Pierce is the poster child for thug player in the NBA. This guy just comes to the court each day, so he can take cheap shots and physical attacks against his opponent. He has some of the worse sportsmanship I have seen in decades in the NBA. The guy should be behind bars some where in a jail or prison environment. He doesn’t deserve the money and luxuries that come from playing in the NBA.

Pierce’s teammate Kendrick Perkins is no better and has a lot of Paul Pierce’s bad qualities. Pierce and Perkins are both thug players and Perkins has been taking cheap shots for years in the NBA. He is another player who laces up the sneakers each night, so he can just cause hurt and pain to other players in the NBA. Kendrick Perkins and Paul Pierce will both probably be in jail one day, paying for their physical attacks on other human beings. When you have two players like this on your team, it’s bound to carry over to the other guys on the team. We see this in a insecure Kevin Garnett. He doesn’t have a lot of confidence about himself, so he takes lessons from Kendrick Perkins and Paul Pierce and wants to follow in their footsteps. He must feel if he can take these same cheap shots on the court like they do, then he can fit in. Become part of a group and have something he didn’t have while growing up. KG had a hard childhood and now needs help from others to survive in this world. Too bad he’s becoming a thug, just like his partners in crime on the Boston Celtics team.

Shawne Williams Takes Cheap Shot at Artest

In New York, we saw Shawne Williams of the Knicks played an entire game of thug basketball. This guy would not stop taking the cheap shots at the Atlanta Hawks team Friday night in Atlanta. He was constantly trying to start trouble the whole game. He took numerous cheap shots at numerous players. Two shots were directed at Marvin Williams, but Marvin wouldn’t stoop to his level. It was when Shawne Williams tried the 3rd cheap shot is when Marvin slapped his hand away, to say “this is enough, play basketball thug“, but Shawne Williams didn’t want to play ball. He just wanted to cause trouble and he accomplished his goal. After Marvin tried to teach him a lesson, the thug Shawne Williams came back in a bold stance against Marvin. This led to an altercation and both men got ejected. The NBA could care less about the Atlanta Hawks and didn’t hand out the right punishment. They actually suspended Marvin Williams for 2 games and Shawne Williams for only 1 game. If they would have watched the whole 2nd half of that game, they would have probably suspended Shawne for 5 to 10 games. In typical fashion, the NBA only focused on the incident and didn’t rewind the tape enough, to see what was really the problem at Philips Arena that night.

Kevin Garnett and Shawne Williams are two thugs playing in the NBA right now and neither athlete should be allowed to play in the next dozen games. The NBA had a chance to stand up and take action against these two thugs. KG did get ejected from the game, when he took a deliberate and non basketball shot at the Suns Channing Frye, but the League Officials took favortism into account with the Big Ticket Kevin Garnett. KG had the worse single action from the two NBA fights in Phoenix and Atlanta, yet he gets to play in his next game. Shawne Williams spent a large amount of time in Atlanta delievering cheap blows the whole game and will only sit out 1 game. While Marvin Williams took the abuse two times from Shawne Williams and didn’t do a thing. The NBA is not rewarding Marvin Williams for him turning the other cheek. They are only holding him responsible for his action after the 3rd cheap shot was delievered in his direction, by this same NBA thug who plays for the New York Knicks. The two game suspension against Marvin Williams and the 0 games against KG is exactly why the NBA has repeat champions. They continue to show favoritism and do not judge things individually as they should.

I’m not sure what the Suns team plans to do with Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics, but the Atlanta Hawks will take care of their own. Shawne Williams return to Philips Arena in Atlanta will be a welcome sight. We will serve justice up right in the ATL and you can bet on that! Come on back to Hotlanta Mr. Shawne Williams, we eagerly await your return. We can show you up close and personal what we do to thugs down here. Shawne Williams time is coming, to be continued…

Travelers can expect long delays from now until the New Year Day gets here. All luggage and passengers will be screened much tighter in the coming days, to prevent any holiday disasters. Even women carrying their Rebecca Minkoff handbags will have to put them down for searches at all the U.S. airports. We are living in new times and these days, everyone agrees the need for tighter security is needed. We don’t mind seeing tighter security at the airports or at the border, but usually get mad, when we get caught up in these security delays. We are all for it, as long as it doesn’t involve us. We all have to learn these are necessary steps to protect all the passengers taking a air flight this New Year’s Day and for those who might be planning to cross the borders into Canada and Mexico. So please arrive early for all of your holiday travels this year and even leave early if you’re driving a long distance for the New Year’s festivities.

It’s that time of the year again! Everyone is jolly (well almost everyone) and the air is filled with holiday cheers from coast to coast. Some families may be visiting relatives this holiday season and have to travel coast to coast. These holiday travelers will probably take to the air to complete their family visits this Christmas season. For the rest of us, we will be loading up in the family car, SUV, or the mini van. Keeping the kids happy and calm on these long holiday trips can be challenging at times. Most parents already know what they are in store for, but how many are going to try and help the children stay happy this year?

I think letting your child have an early Christmas present this year, might just do the trick. A gift they can take along for one of these long rides to Grandma’s house. There are a lot of good gifts for children in the traveling department. Depending on your price range, you should be able to get a couple of these items to help out on the holiday trip this year. If you really want to make the kids happy, so they can have that happy face on for the relatives, check out the Sony psp for a travel toy this year. This item is basically a Playstation, but its a portable Playstation, so its perfect to bring on the road. You can give the portable gaming system to your child now and then on Christmas Day, you can let Santa bring a few new games for this mini version of the popular Playstation system.

Overall, there really isn’t any magical way of keeping the kids happy the whole time. If Mom and Dad can get a little creative now and think of a few surprises to hand out along the way, I think they might just have the best family trip ever. Especially if one of those surprises, turns out to be a Sony PSP gaming console.

Please enjoy this precious family time with your children this year. These are the things our kids will remember decades from now and so will you! Don’t forget to buckle up and drive safe. I wish everyone a happy, safe, and healthy Christmas in 2010!

I don’t really care where I find gold, just as long as I am looking places that have the possibility to contain gold. I know a lot of gold prospectors like to search for beach gold. You don’t find the big gold nuggets; while looking for beach gold, but the small gold dust can add up to big money.

I would like to try panning for some of this beach gold one day. I really don’t know of any beaches on the East Coast of the United States that is good for beach gold. I know there are places up in Alaska that have huge deposits of gold on the beaches there. Also, the state of Oregon is known for beach gold. I wouldn’t mind a trip to Oregon, where I could spend an entire day, just searching for this Oregon beach gold. I guess a sluice box would be the best way to go about looking for gold on the beaches. I would want a metal detector too, so I could look for other treasures that might be buried under the beach sands.

Have you ever tried to metal detect on a beach before? Did you find any modern or ancient treasures? I know the crowded beaches, where a lot of swimmers like to go for swimming, will often lose jewelry on these beaches. A modern day treasure hunter, can locate a lot of these jewelry items on the beaches. All it takes is a metal detector to get started. I don’t currently have a metal detector, but I am looking to buy one, before the spring of 2011. I plan to save all winter long, so I can have a metal detector for next year. I believe I will find one that is set for finding gold on the beaches or any other places I go looking for gold.

You can call roadside assistance At least you have it at home and your not stranded some where away from your house. Just keep in mind, if you drive a car or a truck, breakdowns will happen. It’s just a part of driving an automobile and every driver has some miserable breakdown stories they can tell. I don’t mind the bad breakdowns I have had in the past. I just hope I don’t have any new stories to tell anytime soon.

Families usually like vacations during the summer time months of the year. Not a lot of winter vacations ever get planned. There are a number of folks who will make long trips during the winter for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. In most cases, families will be taking a lot of items with them on these family trips, so they normally don’t choose to fly. Driving becomes the best option for visiting family members during the holidays. A van or recreational vehicle are a couple of common choices a family will choose to drive, for these long winter trips. If the weather is cold in late November or December, you don’t want to be stuck on the side of the road, waiting on rv repairs. It is best to take care of all the tune ups and oil changes, before you head on these long distant trips in the winter time. Make sure your tires are properly inflated and a rotation and tire balance is not a bad idea either. Anything we can do to avoid breakdowns on the Interstate highways, will help to make these cold travels a lot more safer for our families. I hope you and your family all reach your Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday destinations safely. It’s never fun breaking down on the road and it is even dangerous; when these breakdowns occur during the cold winter months.

Etowah River in Canton, Georgia

There is a long history of gold being found in my home state of Georgia. A lot of that history can be traced back on the Etowah River; which runs through several Georgia counties. One of those Counties is Cherokee County. There you will find the city of Canton, Georgia.

While there may not be a lot of public stories about gold being found in the Etowah River in Canton, it is certainly there. As of this month, there was some new gold that was found in this river, which runs right through the middle of Cherokee County in North Georgia. Its not enough gold that could fill up gold pans to the rim, but any new gold being found today is worthy of being documented. Due to the soaring prices of gold. Do you know what an ounce of gold is worth today? Many people out of the loop might make a guess around 700 or 800 dollars an ounce. While this would be a good guess, the value of gold is much more than this.

This is a live gold widget; which updates automatically to the rising gold prices. Another thing about gold; which everyone might not know about, is the fact that all gold is the same. Well there are different levels of the pureness of gold, but for the most part, gold is gold. The gold found in Canton, Georgia is the same as the California 49ers were finding during the California Gold Rush days and also the same gold the 33 trapped miners in Chile were searching for.

A new online friend of mine from Orlando, Florida was recently up in North Georgia searching for some of this new Georgia gold. He made the decision to take a historic route and a modern day one, so he could see which one worked the best. He began looking for gold in Duke’s Creek, located in White County, where it may have been the first place gold was ever discovered in Georgia. After that, he brought his gold pan down to the Etowah River in Canton and collected a few samples there. He believes he did find some gold dust in Canton and didn’t seem as happy with his trip to Duke’s Creek. However, how many gold prospectors are going to tell us about the big strike, if they did stumble across a big 1 ounce gold nugget? You just never know what might be out there. To know the full-truth sometimes, you just have to get out there and do the prospecting for yourself.

I would like to thank Dave from Orlando, who did share his gold prospecting adventure with me and for providing me the photo on this blog post; which shows a section of the Etowah River flowing through Canton, GA. If you plan to go on a gold prospecting adventure in North Georgia or in Canton, please be sure to let me know about it. If you have searched for gold in Canton or other nearby areas in recent years, I would like to hear these stories too. I want to start a gold family tree or a documented history of the new gold being looked for or found in this area. If your gold stories along the Etowah River help me to discover the main source for all of these smaller gold flakes, I will be sure to include you, in any big findings I discover personally. The gold is out there, it’s just a matter of time, before some lucky prospector puts their shovel on the right spot of dirt, in the hills of Canton, Georgia. And what a fine afternoon day that will be!

Author Chris Padgett (best way to contact me is by replying here)

I hope your luck is better than mine; when it comes to winning things. I have been able to win a few things here and there, but nothing worth mentioning. The other night, I was low on money and went inside a convenience store to check my bank account balance with their ATM machine. I was disappointed to see that I didn’t have much money. I then grabbed a drink and went up to the cashier to pay for it. While I was paying for my drink, there was a guy standing next to me, and he won $500 by scratching off a lottery ticket. I was happy for him, but sad knowing that I needed money and all I had to do, was to buy that lottery ticket he had won off. That is the kind of luck I have.

I would love to win a free vacation. A nice long trip is what I need, so I can relieve some of these financial stresses I have now. By any chance have you ever won a trip before? I don’t really know where any websites are for giving away free trips. I probably should check first to see, if there are any travel deals currently available online. I might find a really cheap trip and that would be like winning one. If I did win a trip right now and could go anywhere in the World, I would probably choose Las Vegas. Since I saw that guy winning the money from the lottery ticket, it has put me in the gambling mood. I really should change my thinking and fast. I am not a good gambler and I have years and years of bad results to prove that. It would be nice to pack up a few bags and head out the door, for a long distance vacation, that I so desperately need right now.

The Seahawk – OuterBanks Rental Property

While Coastal Designs offer many destination choices for couples or a small group of friends looking for a weekend fishing trip or golfing trip to North Carolina; the Seahawk Rental Property is NOT one of them. In fact, this is the place you choose for trips that include your extended family members and friends. This is a really big place and two full-size families could enjoy all the rooms, beds, and features the Seahawk offers in North Carolina. You would be hard-pressed to find another OuterBanks rentals property, that included more space and luxuries as this one does.

Does a hot tub and private pool sound nice? What about your very own full-size pool table, so you can shoot some billiards; while enjoying the beautiful Outer Banks area?

The pool table, hot tub, and your very own private pool for swimming, is only the beginning of what you will find at the Seahawk in North Carolina. Thanks to Coastal Designs, this piece of rental property on the OuterBanks is loaded down with luxuries for the adults and the kids too! If you choose to stay here, your large group will not have a problem with choosing what to watch on TV. First off, the beautiful Outer Banks weather will probably keep your family and friends outside a lot, but if you do come inside, you will be happy to know the Seahawk has 10 television sets! These 10 TV’s come with 3 VCR’s, 2 DVD Players for watching recorded movies, a video library, stereo,  and a XBOX gaming system! How does that electronics package sound? You will also have full access to a wet bar and a gas grill! The list just goes on and on, for all these great “extras” you can find at the Seahawk and there are 7 parking spaces available for your large group of family and friends, you plan on bringing with you to the Seahawk in N. Carolina.

The town of Duck, North Carolina is where you can find the Seahawk Rental Property. Duck is a very popular spot for travelers and it doesn’t take one long to figure out why. They are located in a prime area of the Outer Banks region. The beautiful town of Duck and all the great things Coastal Designs has did to the Seahawk, makes this the number 1 place to visit in the South. If you have been wanting to take another family with you on vacation or would like to take a group of employees out for a little vacation time. You won’t find a better place than Duck, North Carolina and staying at the rental property Coastal Designs has affectionately nicknamed the Seahawk.

My college football teams went a perfect 2-0 last Saturday, in the opening weekend of NCAA Football. They both played real small colleges, so they were expected to win their first games of the season. Now the 2nd Saturday, in the college football season, will be much different for my two local teams. We have one team that will be facing a border rivalry with the South Carolina Gamecocks. My other favorite college football team is going to have to go against Kansas this upcoming Saturday. Neither one of these football games will be “gimme” wins and they will have to work, if each school plans to stay undefeated. If they both win this Saturday; I will have to celebrate in victory. I believe I will have some montecristo cigars nearby, so I can light up in style. Each competition or game in life, needs a victory party or a way to celebrate. Smoking a fine cigar is just one of the traditional ways to celebrate in sports.

Ordinary Folks Traveling to Outer Space

Throughout the history of man, it has always been in our blood to travel, take long voyages, and explore new territories of land on Earth. Just about every man, woman, and child living on this planet today, has that curiosity inside of them and we always want to see what is on the other side. Now that we have made it to the 21st century without destroying our race with disease, nuclear weapons, or other things that could put us back into the caveman days. We have just about went to all of the corners of the Earth and there is only a few remote pieces of land we haven’t stepped foot on and the bottoms of our oceans are still a bit of a mystery, but we have conquered Mother Earth for the most part. The only other direction we have left is up and space will be man’s next and biggest challenge ever, when it comes to feeding this curiosity we have about the moons, stars, and other planets; which do exist in our solar system.

Yes, the next big Lewis & Clark adventure will take place in outer space and we already have a lot of good technology in place, that is making space travel possible in the first part of our new millennium. While the space program was invented in the 20th century and very much operational then too, it’s really not that big of a story; when it comes to our abilities to travel away from the Earth in the 21st century. However, only highly trained astronauts and space people were getting the chance to leave the planet and go where very few other men and women have gone before. If you wanted to travel to space in the 20th century, you would have had to complete a high level of education courses and training for the chance to go. The overall numbers are still relatively low for those who have traveled to space compared to the 8+ billion people on our planet who hasn’t been beyond Earth’s gravitational field yet.

Other than a few other high-tech countries, the main launching pad for space travel has always been reserved for the men and women working with NASA. If you ever wanted to go or had dreams about traveling to outer space, you were going to have to get NASA’s permission; not to mention the use of their technology and space shuttles to get you there.

Today the study and technological advancements for outer space and space travel come from a variety of really smart people, private companies, the military for various countries, and the wealthy citizens of the World. All of these modern sources are contributing things and ideas to the astrological equations; which could make traveling to space a real possibility for more than just NASA employees and astronauts.

I find it interesting at the number of wealthy men living in our country and in other parts of the world and how a lot of these filthy rich men want to make the trip into space one day. The 21st century is going to create multiple space vehicles, for multiple paths into the open space that is beyond Earth’s furthest atmosphere from her ground. Some of these billionaires will still be young enough to make the trip and most of them will get a chance to conquer one of the last thing’s in their life, they haven’t conquered yet, because you figured most challenges they have over came to be so rich now.

I haven’t made up my mind yet, if given the opportunity by NASA or a private space travelling company, if I would choose to go. I can tell you one thing for certain. If I had a few million dollars in the bank; then there is no way in the World I would think about travelling to outer space. Why risk it? I know for the rich people out there, they have always had everything they needed or wanted in life (for the most part). I don’t have dreams about taking trips to space, but I do have plenty of dreams and desires of being rich enough, so money wasn’t an issue in my life. I know they say the more money you have, the more problems that come with it. Well I have lived the life of a poor man for almost 4 decades now and the problems I have had to face in life hasn’t been a bowl of cherries. I would like to be given the opportunity to face those rich man’s problems and the ones that come with having a lot of money. I can’t even for one second see how any of those problems would even come close to the everyday problems and real life struggles I have today. So my dream is a simple one. I could make a million dollars last for the rest of my life. I actually figured it out to a smaller number and came up with 680,000 dollars. If I was given or won 680,000 dollars; then I would be able to do enough online work to put with my monthly interest I would earn on that sum of money and could sail through life a million times better than now! Guaranteed!

Now getting back to the trips to outer space. How much would you be willing to spend or what lengths would you go through, just to have the chance to make a trip to space one time? Instead of charging a price for a ticket to space, it looks like the private companies are posing these questions to the men and women, who really want to fly into space one day. The trips to space for common people is going to be a bidding war or work much like an auction does. The ones who have the biggest bank accounts, will be the ones getting those first seats into the dark and never-ending reaches of outer space. I don’t really have a problem with that. Obviously there is going to be a lot more people wanting to go; than these spaceships have the seating capacity for. So something would have been needed to make it a fair chance for all. Money does not equal power, so letting the ones willing to pay the most, is a fair way to choose passengers for space and using money would be in the best interest of these private flights to space companies.

I do look forward to seeing average people making these trips to space. I know most of us should see at least one person we know, go to space in our lifetimes. It’s going to be that common, where a conversation will take place at the water cooler and each employee will have known a neighbor, a relative, a former employee, a friend, or someone who has signed up and taken one of these private trips, toward the stars of the pitch dark sky, which we simply know as outer space. As far as we know, this is truly man’s last frontier…

I’m sure you have traveled to some strange places, where you had to look for a place to stay for the night. You decide your going to find the nearest hotel and crash for the night. Your main goal is to just find a place to stay for 1 night, but then you decide you want more than just a room for the night. You get lured in to a hotel that is offering HBO or some other paid cable channel and perhaps they even have a hot tub for their guests too. Now the plans change and you decide to have the time of your life and you pay extra for the hot tub and cable TV.

After you see a lot of these hot tubs in the hotels, you may want to get your money back. They usually are not that nice at your cheap 1 night stay hotels. I don’t think they do any sort of hot tub maintenance’s or put a hot tub cover over them; while they’re not in use. The television is 19 inches or smaller and doesn’t even offer a clear picture. Sure you got HBO and a few other good movie channels, but how much TV do you really plan to watch? After all, you only got the room for a place to sleep and not a lot of time to enjoy the 100 channels you have at your finger tips.

Be cautious of these hotel signs when you do go out on a road trip. No sense in paying for cable television, hot tubs, and other hotel luxuries; when you only need a bed for the night. I don’t mind the cheap hotels and I will gladly stay in the cheapest one I can find. It is nice to check-in and see your hotel offering something you didn’t expect, but I believe saving money is the bottom line. I don’t want to have to pay for the hotel’s water bill or their cable bill either!

Where does your family like to travel to for summer vacations? There are really only two popular types of destinations travelers will choose to take each summer. One of the most common places to choose is the beach or where there is a lake or ocean present. Water adds excitement to any vacation and its a great and relaxing way to enjoy your week off from work.

The other choice many will choose to take is going to the mountains. The mountains or any place that is miles away from any modern conveniences. A camping trip or a log cabin in the woods is the 2nd most common travel destination for families who take a summer vacation each year.

I enjoy doing both and don’t really have a favorite. It all depends on what type of mood I am in. The sun and the beach is a great choice and I love going to the ocean. I have been to South Carolina and Florida for most of my ocean vacations. If I see the ocean down in Mississippi or on the Alabama coast, I am usually going on a gambling trip to Biloxi, Mississippi. A lot of families like to visit a casino on their vacations, but since the kids aren’t allowed in, this really isn’t the best family vacation choices.

I am a new gold prospector in the 21st century. I haven’t tried any of the modern equipment yet for finding gold. I am still trying to learn like the gold prospectors of yesterday. Who had to go out and find gold without the use of modern technology. I believe gold is just about everywhere and finding it does not require luck. If you know where to look for gold and how to prospect it, you can find gold on most days.

My first few times out I found no gold. Not even a tiny flake and I was looking in some pretty good places, at least that is what I thought. You would think gold would travel down a river or a stream bed and get trapped behind the rocks in the water. While this may be true in some cases, it’s not where the majority of your gold will be. If you want to find gold on your next outing, please listen to my number one piece of advice for finding gold in a river, creek, stream, or any water way that has flowing water.

The gold isn’t getting trapped behind the rocks. The gold is actually washing over the rocks and will settle down in front of them. Any structure in the water that is changing the flow of water will be a good place for finding gold. Just don’t look at the back side of the rock or the upstream side. Reverse your thinking on this part, because it is very important if you want to find gold. The gold is collecting by the big rocks in front of them or on the down stream side. Gold gets pushed over the rocks during floods and after passing the rock, the water current will have less strength on the opposite side of the rock. This change in water flow will create a more calm water flow and allow the heavy gold to sink. The gold sinks to the bottom and will collect in front of the rock.

Most of the gold in rivers will be found on the down stream side of the rock. Please keep this in mind, when you and your buddies go out looking for gold in the rivers. You can pay attention to other factors, like gold being found on the inside of a bend and not the outside. It’s good to keep all of this prospecting information in your head for finding the most gold possible, but beginning prospectors will have the most luck, if they will take my advice on the best way to find gold in the shortest amount of time. You simply just need to look on the front side of the rocks and dig out that material in front of the rock. If you will pan that material out or run it through your sluice box, you will find much more gold; than if you try getting gold from the material on the back side of the rocks. It may seem a little strange, but gold prospectors shouldn’t be concerned about strange. We just want to go where the gold is and most of the gold is on the down stream side of a rock or other obstructions in the rivers and creeks. This method does work best after a big flood has recently passed by. However, the gold doesn’t really move much in the days, weeks, months, and years after the flood, so there should always be some gold in front of the rocks.

Avoid trying to pull material out; which is under the water. You will lose gold this way and just disturb the area, so gold can get washed down further in the rivers. Dig along the sides of the river, which probably go under water during the floods and you can retain a lot more of the gold. Gold prospectors need to mostly focus on dry digging and not put their shovels in a place where they will get wet. A dry shovel means a better chance of keeping all of the gold that is in front of a rock in the river. A wet shovel might land you some gold, but how much did you lose to the currents in the water? Keep the shovel dry and dig in front of the rocks and you will see the shinny golden flakes in your pan.