Looks like this will be my last post from Maui. I still have several hours left here before I head to the airport and the reverse trip from hell back to DC, where apparently it will be 40 degrees, snowy, rainy and windy as we land. Brilliant. I will miss this island. I constantly refer […]
Hell yes. I saw a couple whales breach today. And I got the sequence of one of them (pictured above) to prove it. Awesome. And let me tell you, it was breathtaking to see in person. Today was my first-ever time on a boat. Well, a boat that was not called a ferry that took […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Thursday/Friday was a long day. You may not care, because the end result was me waking up this morning to the sound of waves crashing into the beaches here in Kaanapali, Maui, but suck it, it’s my blog and I write what I want. It all started by waking up at 5 in the morning […]