Being a 20-something ski bum in Fort Collins, Colo., just wasn’t fun enough for Michael Guerriero: Party opportunities tended to melt away when the snow did — so that’s when he hit the road.
He puts it like this: “Basically, before and after ski season, my friends and I would drive from Lake Tahoe to the East Coast and back to the Rockies, following an asphalt zig-zag from one festival to the next.  Details
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Typically a rock thrown in water sinks, but that’s just what engineers at UCSD are trying to avoid.
The students said “bon-voyage” to a twenty-five-foot “concrete canoe” Thursday, that will hopefully take sail in Hawaii next month as part of a civil engineer’s competition.
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Hokule’a, with a fresh crew of 12 flown in from Hawaii, will set sail for the islands from Palmyra Atoll on Tuesday.
Surrounded by 400 melon-headed whales, the double-hulled canoe was escorted into the remote pacific island’s main channel by a pod of dolphins and manta rays at around 10:45 a.m. yesterday, completing a 1,000-mile journey that began March 10.
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The leading boats have hit a high pressure zone as they all battle north to Rio. The low pressure systems and the roaring forties of the Southern Ocean are now a distant memory, but all four boats are caught in this system as they negotiate their way around the Falkland Islands.
As a result there isn’t much change on the positions in terms of miles gained or lost in the last 24 hours. Green Dragon are still holding fourth and they are sailing at 100% and chasing hard to try and close the gap on … Details