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Again, this is something that I've been wanting to do for some time and I believe that a site map is necessary to help those people out that have a hard time figuring out what is what on our site. I'd like to think that our menu system is easy and will work, but some people just require a site map to figure it out. So ... here you go ... a site map. (It currently sucks, which is why it's shown as display:none!)

About the Kimlers

This is where visitors can find out about Randsco and the Kimler family. Who are we? How did we come to be? What motivates us on our adventures. It's kinda like the old "meet scott and rachel" section on our PCT WebPage, but this "about us" section will be a stand-alone page.

• October 2012
  • Passing the Sniff Test
• May 2012
  • Pickled Tongue Recipe
• February 2012
  • The "Toilet Bowl"
• January 2012
  • Visits in the Night
• November 2011
  • Not Your Normal Call
• June 2011
  • Canada Post on Strike
  • Boating & Fishing Safety Tips
• April 2011
  • Five Tips for Hiking with Kids
• March 2011
  • BC Nursing Crisis - Five Years Later
• December 2010
  • Ollie the Octopus
• August 2010
  • Sunshine Coast Cycle Tour
  • eBay Pure-CSS Photo Gallery
• June 2010
  • Photoshopped Rachel
• March 2010
  • Hisstory: Sumatra Roads
  • Spring Gardening
• January 2010
  • Alex Year Five
• December 2009
  • Failing Users
• November 2009
  • Breaking the Piggy Bank
  • 3rd-Party Yahoos
• October 2009
  • Olympic Torch Run
  • Things Rachel Loves
  • Infidel
• September 2009
  • Better @font-face Syntax
• August 2009
  • Improving a Lightbox Effect
  • Six Days of Sea Kayaking

• Complete Archive List

Green-eyed Tiger: Green Man T-Shirts' goal is to sell tee shirts and save the planet. The first of their "Low on Stock" series, which features endangered species, is the tiger tee. At the turn of the century, tigers numbered over 100,000. Now only about 4,000 remain. (25% of Green Man T-Shirts profits are donated to support environmental causes and groups).

Green Man T-Shirts is an environmentally-friendly purveyor of - you guessed it - tee shirts. (The name says it all, eh?)

And apparently more, because the "Green Man" is a legendary pagan deity that roams the woodlands of England and Europe. He is usually depicted as horned and peers out of a mask of leaves. He archetypically promotes "being one with the Earth".

Dave Urban & Rob Juszak, co-owners of Green Man T-Shirts, sell only 100% organic cotton and bamboo t-shirts made by the most ethical and environmentally conscious companies in the apparel world. In addition they also give 25% of their profits to support environmental causes and organizations.

Green Man T-Shirts utilizes Photo-Caption Zoom on a number of product-related pages. They know it's important for customers to get a detailed view of their tee shirt designs, and Photo-caption Zoom provides the added ability of including an engaging textual description with the detailed photo. It's also search-engine friendly and because it doesn't rely on Flash, JavaScript or other add-on dependent technologies - their message gets across to EVERY VISITOR.

Passing the Sniff Test -- Scott & Rachel are replacing their broken Lumix DMC-TZ5 digital camera. They can buy it locally for $349 CAD, but know they are cheaper in the States. They almost pulled the trigger on one for $162, but the company - smarttechcases.com - turned out to be a SCAM. Find out more.

SmartTechCases.com Scam

Wow! SALE! Canadian retailer "Future Shop" advertises the Panasonic Lumix ZS20 digital camera for "$30 Off", but shopping in the States, I was able to best the sales price by over $100 (including tax and shipping). Why must Canadian consumers pay more for products?

British Columbia - NAFTA woes continue for Scott & Rachel. While backpacking in Cape Scott two summer's ago, the Lumix camera they loved (Leica-lens, 10X optical zoom), popped out of it's soft case, landing hard on a wooden bridge. It wouldn't work any more. They took it to a camera repair shop, but thought the $180 repair bill was a tad expensive.

Fast-forward to this summer, when they had an amazing kayaking trip in Johnstone Strait. They missed lots of great wildlife shots, because they lacked a good digital camera with a decent zoom lens. The decided that they would bite the bullet and purchase the latest Lumix camera. (Updated to a 20X optical zoom - same weight and form factor, plus a few other goodies - GPS, touch-screen menu).

They've highlighted the disparity in digital camera prices between the United States and Canada. First with their Casio EX-Z875 digital camera and again with the Lumix DMC-TZ5 that broke.

Today, this latest Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20 camera is "on sale" at their local Canadian Future Shop (if money weren't an object, they could drive right down and buy the camera, today and be instantly gratified knowing that they got it on sale). The sale price is $349.99 ("Save $30" the online advert says).

Knowing that they could probably buy the camera in the States for a lot less money, they headed to their friendly shopping bots and gave them a spin. Actually, it was their head that spun, when they saw a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20 camera on sale through a Yahoo e-commerce vendor (SmartTechCases.com) for $160. Wow!

To learn how cheaply they were able to buy this camera (and how they were almost swindled out of nearly $165) ... read on brave consumer ...

The Deal & the Scam

Growing up in Bakersfield, California meant eating Basque food. Why? Because the Basque followed the sheep at the turn of the 20th century and Basque boardinghouses were clustered down by the old Bakersfield train station. One of the things we ate was pickled cow tongue. Not tried it? Just head down to your local grocer (or butcher), buy a tongue and use the easy "Randsco Basque Pickled Tongue Recipe" herein! You'll either love it or hate it, but either way ... it'll be a culinary conversation piece!

Randsco Basque Pickled Tongue Recipe

Basque Pickled Tongue Recipe: (Step 1) Cut off the tongue of your friendly neighborhood cow! "Say what? You ain't gonna eat my tongue!" Some love it, some not. Growing up in Basque country ... I do!

When you think of appetizers, most don't think of pickled cow tongue. Heck, if you've spent any time around cows, you know what they use that long tongue of theirs for - picking their nose! Eating that nose-picking thing doesn't sound very appetizing at all!

But it is! Pickled cow tongue may be an