Melinda Rice:  

I lived in Humboldt County for about eight years after leaving Tehachapi and went to school there for about 6-1/2 years up there with my sisters Heidi and Jennifer. I lived in Morgantown, WV for about a year after that, then moved back to Tehach and took a job working for Enron Wind in January of 2000, and have been working for GE Wind since they bought us out of Enron's Corporate bankruptcy. Building wind turbines is the love of my life. I live and breathe to be a part of the wind industry, and I'm pretty sure that it's wind blowing through my veins, not blood flowing. I took an offer to move to the Pensacola, FL in the summer of 2005, and have been working (and sweating) here since then. It is hotter than three hells here, and it gets flatter here the longer I'm here. And humid! Oh god, how it is humid! It's all right though... I live right on the Gulf of Mexico, I've been learning to throw cast nets and fish in the Gulf of Mexico, and have found happiness and peace in that. I was under the mistaken impression that it was too swampy here to ride quads here, but found out just how wrong I was. I do take runs up to my friend's farm up in Statesboro, Georgia to ride shoot my pistol (a Springfield XD-40) whenever I get the chance. That was where I learned how wrong I wa...Expand for more