Americans, Muslims & the sliver of BLUE that overlaps

Thank you Wendelin for passing along this cool visual.

In looking at this I think: "Whoa! There are a lot of Muslims in the world, few who live in the United States and probably the same percentage of Al-Qaeda as there are KKK in Christianity.

How are my reading skills?

Surfing Jalama

In my book, Surfing the Casbah, I wander a bit from surfing the Middle East ... and tell part of that story in California. The distance from Tel Aviv to Beirut is about the same distance as San Diego to Long Beach - 130 miles. The same is true from Santa Barbara to Jalama Beach--where I often go to surf. And these are the pictures from just that!