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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

We are tired, we have loads of laundry to do, and a Bailey-cat who is very happy to see us… and we are home. Love to all – more later.

2007 08 25 snolan Personal Comments (0)

Love the Bay Area

Erci‘s father picked us up in San Mateo Friday morning and took us down the coast for scenery and catching up, we followed coastal highway 1 from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz stopping briefly at San Gregorio, at Pigeon Point and in Davenport for lunch. We took longer at both Bonnie Doon Vineyard and […]

2007 08 25 snolan Personal
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Murphy’s Law

Ilima tours sent the van to the wrong hotel. United flight 74 was delayed by three hours. Security was nervous about our Tiki carving. My PDA died at the airport. I think I’ll stop touching anything today so nothing else can go wrong… at least Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is an awesome book.

2007 08 23 snolan Personal Comments (0)

Foster Gardens

This morning we took TheBus to Foster Gardens, which was a lovely respite from the hustle and bustle of the city of Honolulu. The big trees at the garden are spectacular, and there are lots of orchids there too. We walked from the gardens to Chinatown and got some lunch and ball tea, then caught […]

2007 08 22 snolan Personal Comments (0)

“Memories, How they Fade So Fast”

I was stationed at Hickam AFB through all of 1985 and most of 1986. It was a rought first duty on lowly E3 pay, but it was a lot of fun as well. It has been strange seeing how much my old stomping grounds have changed. The Shore Bird is still in place, and still […]

2007 08 21 snolan Personal Comments (0)

Too much Pineapple?

As Erci already wrote, the last full day on Maui was spent driving the beautiful road to Hana and back. We swam briefly at Koku beach at the extreme Eastern end of Maui and checked out the Hasegawa general store in Hana. Erci was wishing she had the Porsche on the road back; I am […]

2007 08 20 snolan Personal Comments (0)

Another gorgeous day on Maui

Today we slept in, then headed to Lahaina to pick up some clothing Erci was having altered, have more Mai-Tais at Cheeseburger in Paradise (Ernie is a great bartender, and the breeze is better in the upstairs bar than downstairs in the main dining room). Erci had to have some prints with koi in them […]

2007 08 19 snolan Personal Comments (0)

Sailing to Lanai with Trilogy

Last night the Feast at Lele was amazing. Four courses of food, each consisting of three to four dishes, each course in turn representing Hawaii, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa. The shows were fun too, and the setting was absolutely gorgeous. This morning we got up very early (4:40am local) and got on board the […]

2007 08 17 snolan Personal
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Maui Fun

Wednesday morning we decided to head into Lahaina town for some breakfast and shopping. Stumbled into a store called Serendipity on Front Street and spent most of the day there as they had lovely, fashionable, affordable, sensible clothing in Erci‘s sizes, and the staff were entertaining and a joy to spend time with. Highly recommended […]

2007 08 16 snolan Personal Comments (2)

Sunrise at Haleakala

Monday night we landed at Kahului (OGG) on a nearly full 757 (lots of passengers). An hour after we landed, about 1/3rd of the flight was still waiting for some of their checked baggage (including us, we had retrieved only one of the two so far) and the carousel with bags on it stopped. That […]

2007 08 15 snolan Personal Comments (0)