2 PaddlersYour total including Hawaiian state sales tax is $XXX.XX, your confirmation number is: Karen, and your customer number is 47075. Check in no later than 7:00AM for an event start time of 7:15AM. Meet at Makena Landing, which is on Makena Road just before the Maui Prince Hotel (vendor name is South Pacific Kayaks). Call them the day before your tour to reconfirm the meeting time and to get precise instructions. Their number is 808-875-4848. Plan to bring sunscreen, a hat, a sweatshirt, and a towel. Call them when you arrive on Maui to reconfirm the meeting time and…
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We got our coffee and toast thang going and then got out all the snorkel gear and went off to Wailea/Makena for some snorkeling. Ahihi Cove was almost deserted when we got there, and as a pair of women were getting out, I asked about conditions. “Murkey and disappointing,” they said. David was all for bailing and trying somewhere else, but I already had my wetsuit on. Let me tell you, it’s a big exhausting fight getting into the wetsuit, and I wasn’t about to bail just yet. So I took a turn around the cove while David stayed on…
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Around The World For Free Amazing Race 2’s co-winner Alex Boylan is going around the world again – for free. He started today from CBS’ office and will attempt to get around the world for free within 6 months. He’ll be relying on nearly real-time interactive social networking to get tips and info about where and how to go forward. Problem: website is FLASH-heavy and the registration thingy is busted.
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But intriguing and a little disturbing, although it could be just a little hysteria mixed with superstition. However, it seems to be a fact that seven policemen sent to the crash site had to be given oxygen and hospitalized. Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village – Yahoo! News LIMA (AFP) – Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their…
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The below is a real letter to the editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. The writer urges her fellow young people to get off their butts and vote, because “Yes, the people who take arthritis meds and think that gardening is a snazzy hobby are the ones who make your decisions.” As it happens, I’m probably on track for arthritis meds in a few years, as I’m starting to notice mild pains in my fingers, and my shoulders generally ache all the time. And this year I got into growing vegetables, in a minor way. And in a few days,…
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I went to check the Maui News site for any report on whatever was going on in South Kihei last night – at least 7 or 8 patrol cars screamed past with sirens and lights and all. Someone at the condo explained it was probably a “local fracas” at a beach park south of town. When I checked the site, I wondered if LOLcats are either running their server, or hacking it: they can has website probz. SiteMechanics Lite Engine been not initializes yet! [tags]Funny error message, 404 Not Found[/tags]
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We’ve got people arriving later in the week so have to be aware of things to do to enterain ourselves – this looks like a natural for a day out in Lahaina on Saturday. Local nonprofits will have food booths, there will be music, and admission and parking are free. The pineapple cookoff sounds like fun, too. As it happens, I took a photo on our last trip to Hawaii of the very brand that’s sponsoring this shindig. So enjoy the visual. Taken at the Gazebo restaurant at Napili Shores Maui Pinneapple Festival set for Saturday in Kahului – The…
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On our flight to Maui, we watched the premiere of “Chuck,” which doesn’t actually start until September 24. I suppose this is a marketing ploy to get “buzz” going, and I’m actually okay with getting suckered and blogging about it. Why? Because “Chuck” is funny and smart and has a great cast that really clicks, and because we laughed… we laughed a LOT, in that way that can only rendered by “OMG LOL.” Chuck is played by Zachary Levi. The end of the episode had a “zing!” comic turn that made us make the “BWAAAAAA!!” noise. It’s almost, almost, worth…
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YouTube – Turtle off of Kama’ole II Here’s the video David shot earlier today of our new turtle friend, who lives about 250 yards in front of our condo. It was pretty choppy as there was wind kicking up, so we didn’t stay out long for our first snorkel outing of the trip. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/dDpdbb9gDoQ" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] We had a nice breakfast of Kona coffee, toast, and passionfruit jam, after getting up at some ungodly pre-dawn hour because of the time difference – as per usual, David was up before me and made the coffee. Soon the cameras…
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Yeah, yeah, hate us because we’re in Maui, AGAIN. This time our karma must not have been good, as we had a series of mishaps as soon as we landed at Kahului. The door to the plane was stuck or the jetway wouldn’t extend, so we were stuck for about half an hour in the aisle. Then the car rental went really smooth, except that Avis gave us a bigger SUV than we’d hoped for, although their Preferred Express service is AWEsome. I couldn’t reach anyone at the condo who could tell us what our unit number was – I…