@Peterliu47 multiple times! Via: Flickr Title: Recursion! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 20 Feb ’10, 2.41pm CST PST
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Every night at sunset, it’s traditional to blow a conch shell here at the Condo Called “Done Working.” I call it the Kihei Phillharmonic because everybody blows a different note, but they (mostly) are in harmony. Sounds like bunch of out-of-tune bassoons, but is not unpleasant. I don’t even know if conch shells are local – I think they’re actually imported from the Caribbean, or they’d be on all the trendy menu items here. Today’s activity was simple – head to Lahaina for a late brunch, which we had at the Pioneer Inn. Then we mooched around town taking pictures…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: No surfers but whales at Ho’okipa By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Feb ’10, 6.27pm CST PST
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… blew right by some whales because we were on a schedule with the Pacific Whale Foundation. Grr! It was pretty frustrating – nice day for a snorkel cruise, good conditions, nice boat (the Ocean Voyager) with Pacific Whale Foundation. But because we were on a “tight” schedule, our 7.5 hour trip consisted of motoring right past pods of whales. Which, perhaps due to our high rate of speed and high engine noise, generally dove as we approached rather than hanging around on the surface. I did get some decent shots that will be useful for identifying individuals – they’ll…
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We coffee’d up this morning and headed north with our cameras, as we decided the surf looked a bit high yet to snorkel off our beach. We noodled along in a relaxed way and drove as far as the Honokowai Valley, an area with one of the scariest roads EVAR. Normally, there’s a little school bus parked there at the top of the road, which acts as kind of a cue to stop and look over the one-lane road that goes down into the valley. But it wasn’t there today (maybe because it’s President’s Day, because I did see a…
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After yesterday’s comic misadventures in travel, today was an easy, perfect day in paradise. We’re not a big couple for grand gestures and super-elaborate plans; we’re more in the “play it by ear” mode of operations. But David had tucked a Valentine’s Day card in his bag and this morning he made coffee and brought me “breakfast in bed.” Okay, so it was a breakfast bar, because we got in so late last night we didn’t want to take the time to go to the grocery store to stock up. We woke up relatively late for the first morning…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Five Palms Breakfast By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 14 Feb ’10, 2.19pm CST PST
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We got in so late last night to Maui we didn’t stop to get breakfast stuff, here’s our romantic breakfast in bed! Spent all day traveling, jetlagged, but happy to be here. Via: Flickr Title: Happy Valentine’s Day from Maui By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 14 Feb ’10, 11.22am CST PST
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Somewhere Over The Pacific I always wanted to start of with an evocative dateline, full of the mystery and intrigue of travel. However, this trip is starting ought to be one of slapstick and misdirection. Several months ago, when planning this trip, I booked us on connecting flights Chicago-Maui, because the nonstops were about $1300 each and connections on American via Dallas were about $900 or so. I didn’t want the early set of connecting flights because the time in Dallas was too short; also the fare was lower. Who knew Texas, and indeed 49 out of 50 states would…
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I voted for Scott Lee Cohen, because I am a total idiot. And even though I hang out with political junkies online in Second Life, and constantly read newsfeeds, I failed to educate myself about local political races, and didn’t read the Chicago Tribune’s excellent election special section (because that bit wasn’t in my news feed, and I don’t read the print version anymore). I just left it too late, and on election day, I heard a radio ad (the only commercial station I listen to is WXRT) that made it sound like Cohen was a fresh newcomer with a…