"Peace"

Welcome to Handy Dan's Home Page! :-)

I have always been interested in how things are done and how things work. When I was 11 years old, my family moved into a neighborhood that was only half built, so I got to watch most of the houses being built. I would go around to the houses under construction, picking up pop bottles for the refund money and was fascinated at what the houses looked like in the different phases of construction. During the summer months, I would hang out while the guys were working, staying back out of the way and not bothering them. I would just sit there watching them work, trying to figure out what they were doing, they respected this and would eventually invite me to join them. After they taught me the skilled part of their job they would put me to work on some menial task as a sort of payment for my education, I loved it. I have always done all my own home repairs and improvements and a lot for friends and family too. I like figuring out ways to do things, I love a challenge. So if you get stuck on some do-it-yourself project drop me a line, I'll try to help you as much as I can. I don't claim to be an expert at anything but I have done a little of everything. My favorite thing to make is sawdust, carpentry and woodworking. One of the most unusual things I have made was a saddle stand with a life-size horse head carved of wood. I would like to carve an entire horse of wood but never seem to take the time to do much for myself. I would also like to build a boat and eventually design and build a small airplane, that will be a while though (a long while i'm afraid, but I can dream). I am now happily living in an old school bus, a lifelong dream, traveling the country helping my friends and family with home repairs and improvements. I can remember taking my tape measure on the bus to high school to get the dimensions of the bus and I drew a floor plan. At that time though, I had no idea I would have so many tools that I can't do without, so the back half of the bus is my wood shop and I live in the front half. I have all the comforts of home and room to work (on small projects anyway). I started this adventure of mine at the end of ‘96 and I still don't have the bus completely fixed up like I plan to but I'm working on it, slowly but surely, and it is really shaping up. Just got the engine rebuilt and on the road again. (June 2005) Well, I'll be surfing the web looking for cool stuff, as you are now, so I'll let you get back to it. Check out the cool links below, they might not be here tomorrow... If you have any questions about home repairs feel free to e-mail me! Handy Dan

Photos from 2004 Ocala Gathering

Projects page

Rainbow Family
Yasgur Farm (Woodstock)
Star Trek: The Experience
NASA Select TV (NTV)- especially interesting during shuttle missions
(requires RealPlayer 5.0 or the G2 Beta, free for downloading.
Click on the icon below to download the player)

Official Web site of MUFON: The Mutual UFO Network
The HOMETIME TV show's Website - Great DIY information
My hometown tv news page, lots of good links
The NASA Homepage

More of my favorite links

The following links are to the Microsoft Terraserver showing the Ocala National Forest where the OcalaRainbow Family Gathering was in 1998

Where is Dan Now?

Also visit my brother's site Motie World

Have fun, be good, be safe and treat people the way you want to be treated. Note: Always read and heed the safety tips that come with power tools, keep all your body parts! P.S. I am a believer in extraterestrial beings, they have been here, they are here, and they will keep coming, they haven't hurt us so far so don't worry! You are visitor #, come back as often as you like!If you would like to let me know who you are and what you think of my page please take a few minutes to e-mail me at: HandyDanD@yahoo.com