it's almost midnight and it's raining
 

so weird.... haven't seen rain in at least half a year. kinda nice though.... smells good

think i'll go out and stand in it for a while.

thought it rained quite a bit out there? im in the desert & ive seen rain in the last month... lol

it's raining here too bro. i love the sound. i love the rain...

its raining here .... but its washington ....

when i was in hawaii, we did a chopper ride. Amp can help me with this - the area has the most rain of anywhere in the world i believe. volcano area, far away from maui, etc. cant' think of the name.

speaking of hawaii, when the hell are we gonna have a convention there?

yeah, over on the windward sides of the islands it rains all the time.... everything is super green and lush... tropical rainforest type stuff. But over here on the leeward, (and especially this island) it rains in January and maybe once or twice the rest of the year for like, five minutes. It's already stopped here.... not sure if that was even five minutes... lol... oh well, maybe it'll start up again for a bit... I was enjoying it...

interesting. is it just as lush? got any pics?

sure...

this is a pic I took of Hana Highway over on the windward side a few years ago....

http://www.ampiezza.com/stuff/island0005.jpg

and this is Wailea where I'm at on the leeward....

http://www.ampiezza.com/stuff/wailea1.jpg


stays pretty green over here considering the lack of rain, but everything is watered several times daily. My own sprinkler system runs 4 times a day just to keep the trees and plants from getting baked.

ahha! the place i'm thinking of is Hilo (Helo?). and i think it's rainiest place in the US, not the world.

anyway, we flew over live volcananic flows. cool shit.

sweet. i wanna move now.
im tired of this desert.

gee, what a shitty looking area.

yeah Hilo is big time tropical rain forest stuff... windward side of the Big Island. Was just over there last weekend, but in Kona on the leeward. Wanted to do the volcano flyover, but would've had to drive to Hilo, and that was more miles than I wanted to go..... but next time I go over there I'll take the flyover. :winkwink:

yeah! hilo was cool shit. not many tourists, pretty quiet place.

did an hour long chopper ride. flew over peoples homes that had been destroyed via lava flow. steam in some places, lava flowing everywhere. amazing.

quiet, you'll dig this one.... this is a pic from on top Haleakala Volcano that sits behind my house, right at sunrise...

http://www.ampiezza.com/stuff/haleakela.jpg

it was freezing up there!

kickass. is all that kinda stuff state land that u can just go hiking on or whatever? man id love to do some photoshoots up there...

nice. SERIOUSLY beautiful.

how cold was it (in objective terms) ;)

it's a national park, so you can go up there, but I'm not sure how much hiking is allowed because there's some protected plants that can't be touched, and also the observatory that you can't get near. But yeah.... they do bike rides down the volcano every morning.... 38 miles all downhill. :)

it was right around 32 degrees fahrenheit right as the sun was coming up around 5:00am.... I think it's around 10,000 feet

lol what the hell were you doing up on top of a volcano at 5 am? :)

Dawgy, you can go hiking and camping and stuff over in the West Maui volcanos.... got some friends that go up in there all the time...

this is a pic of West Maui from out on a catamaran one night at sunset...

http://www.ampiezza.com/stuff/westmaui.jpg

thats a little below average here for that high above sea level in the summer/fall.

definitely pretty cold. again, beautiful image.

was doing the sunrise bike ride.... ya gotta get up at like 2am, and you get up to the top around 5am... hang out, shiver, and drink coffee for about 30 minutes, watch the sunrise, and then coast down to the bottom on a bike for 6 hours.... lol

sounds great.... cept for that getting up at 2am thing.... o, wait... its 3 am here & i havent been to bed yet... lol

west looks nice... i gotta get out there soon

I'm only happy when it rains....

kick ass pictures, Amp!

if i win the netpond dream vaction package im so going over to HI

HI looks beautiful. Hot pics!

Amp ... those are some amazing pics! Extremely nice "back yard" you have there. :)