It’s the 40th year of celebrating Earth Day for our planet!  April 22 is the official day of Earth Day all around the globe, and I thought it would make a great post to help increase awareness for a good cause.  Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 to inspire awareness for the planet’s environmental issues, and to help promote a greener and cleaner earth.  Earth Day tries to increase awareness for such topics as climate change, conservation, biodiversity, environmental education, clean energy, recycling, waste reduction, sustainable development, and anything and everything which helps promote a greener economy.

I really believe each and every one of us should do our part in trying to take care of the world we live on.  As the world’s population keeps growing it is only in our best interest, as the human race, to keep the planet we live on a healthy planet.  Do your part this Earth Day by spreading the word and taking part in local Earth Day activities in the local community where you live!

Ever since I was a small kid astronomy and the stars were always very interesting to me.  In fact, astronomy was my second choice as an occupation if I didn’t get into computers.  Well, I’ve been keeping up to date on space tourism since the first commercial space launch brought the first space tourist into space.  When this happened I thought it was a world changing event.

This coming Monday, Virgin Galactic will be announcing the individual who will be Australia’s first space tourist.  The lucky tourist paid $200,000 for the ticket to travel into space – something I would love to experience once in my lifetime.  I’m hopeful the prices for these space travel tickets will decrease dramatically in the next few decades so I can get my chance of traveling into space.  Without a doubt, the market for space tourism is in demand as one article states the company reported last year that well in excess of 200 people have already paid to be a passenger on these space flights.  We are entering into some exciting times as the beginning of commercial space travel for regular people like you and me is becoming more widespread.  Here we come Star Trek!!!

Here’s some info on Virgin Galactic:

Virgin Galactic is the world’s first spaceline. Giving you the groundbreaking opportunity to become one of the first ever non-professional astronauts. Virgin Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships, modelled on the remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne.

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After spending some time at the beach today, I decided to take a break from sightseeing under the burning tropical sun to catch up on some much needed posts. I think my sun-burnt body will thank me for spending some time under a roof and out of harms way from all those UV rays. The amount of photos sitting on my hard drive waiting to be published on the blog is overwhelming and I’m going to try to get as much of them posted as I can today, but first here’s a current events story from Guam I came across while reading the paper today; something I think you’ll all enjoy (especially the male readers).

Well, after seven years of being on hiatus the Miss Guam Universe Pageant is returning to Guam this year. Fifteen of Guam’s most beautiful local ladies will start competing today for the title of Miss Guam. The winner of the Miss Guam Pageant will go on to compete in the Miss Universe Pageant and win a $5,000 cash prize, as well as some other perks. Go Miss Guam!

The heated Democratic Presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been big news on the island of Guam the past few days. The close race has made the island of Guam the center of attention in Washington today as Guam Democrats vote in its presidential caucuses – an event which usually went unnoticed. History was actually made in Guam this year when Barack Obama’s campaign opened a Guam office in the village of Hagatna in early April. No other presidential candidate has ever made this type of commitment in the history of Guam. In addition to this, the radio and television stations on Guam have been consistently playing advertisements from both candidates over the last couple days. A few days ago Barack Obama even called in to one of the local radio stations as a guest which surprised a lot of people on the island.

I think it’s great that I’m on the island while such historic events are taking place on Guam. From what I have experienced, it seems like the Obama campaign spent a lot more money to win support in Guam. Pretty much every advertising channel on the island was touched by the Obama campaign. Obama had advertisements consistently running all over television and radio, pamphlets inserted into Guam’s major newspaper, and Internet ads plastered all over the biggest news website for the island, www.guampdn.com. The only advertisements I experienced from the Clinton campaign were television ads, and the frequency of the ads were very minimal. I think this was due to the fact that it has been mentioned the Clinton campaign is strapped on cash. I’m really interested to see who will win the votes from Guam’s superdelegates.

I’m not trying to turn this travel blog into a political one, but I think it was important to mention because this is such big news on Guam right now. The fact that both candidates are paying so much attention to Guam to win over votes from Guam’s super delegates shows just how close the Democratic race is for President.