Wednesday I got to play my second round of golf here on Maui. The first round on Monday, at Kapalua’s Bay Course, was not as successful as I had hoped. Granted, it was my first time even swinging a club in 4 months, so some rust was to be expected. And while I was a […]
Yes, go ahead and hate me. I don’t care. But I wanted to be fun and test out posting a video to this blog for the first time. I shot video with three different digital cameras, but for some reason I couldn’t get the video to recognize. So I decided to go danger ghetto style […]
Wish I had something massively important to say here, but I don’t I just thought it cool that in the span of a two days, we found evidence of my home state here in Maui. The first came when the car we rented turned out to be made in Louisville. Want proof, they put a […]
Searing pain. All through my body. That’s what I feel hours after coming down from the Haleakala Crater, a volcano on Maui 10,000 feet above sea level. The air was thin, the hiking was slow and I feel mocked by a couple from Alaska, but in the end I am very pleased at our efforts […]
I may be on the other side of the planet (or so it feels considering the temperature and lifestyle differences between DC and Hawaii), but I am not forgetting about where I live. DC has been my home for almost a decade now, and it’s been my wife’s home for about 12 years. So it […]
Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, we are waking up nice and early and attacking (OK, hiking) the crater at Haleakala Volcano. It’s been inactive for decades, so I don’t have to worry about going Joe Banks on anyone. Looking forward to it. We hiked about 2 miles of it last year on the honeymoon, but now we’re […]
Long flights and vacations are great for reading books, or listening to them, depending on how you travel. After finishing the Jacobs book, I dove right in and conquered another in no time. These historical narrative nonfiction books are just cool. I really like reading them. They are a growing form of nonfiction where instead […]
When we first landed and got over to the beach, it was late and dark. The next day was a Friday, so I wrote it off that we got here before the weekend truly began. It’s now Sunday afternoon and one thing is for sure: The recession is definitely noticeable here. As one might say, […]
Reading a book about a guy who decides to live a — literally — biblical life for one year doesn’t exactly sound like the kind of reading material one would think I would get into. But when this book is written by AJ Jacobs, you can count me in. You see, Jacobs got me hooked […]
So we certainly accomplished a few things on our first day here. Took care of good food (ate at Mama’s FIsh House, a swanky nice place along the northern coast). Scored a solid opening-trip breakfast at our favorite breakfast spot in Lahaina. Got in some solid pool time at the hotel pool (which turned out […]