April 01, 2005

Here Today, Gone To Maui

Our first destination the Kamaole Sands Resort in Kihei Maui 4-1 4-7 2005

We flew here today from Oahu. There was no room at the inn either at our home where the bed was packed the day of 3-31 or on all of the Big Island as the annual Merrie Monarch Hula festival is under way. So to get a hotel room we had to fly to Honolulu where we stayed at a place near the air port.

Woody and I have never been to Maui so we expect to really enjoy this adventure. We have a rental car and will put a lot of miles on it for sure. Maui is notorious for having huge traffic jams so we shall see if they compare to our recollections of LA traffic.


I wrote the above in advance in case all I could do was just post the photo. I am posting at a public koisk in the Aloha Airlines terminal in the Honolulu Airport. the keyboard is superior to any I have ever used before so I am flying so please bear with any mistakes!

The whole packing up and moving experience these last two days was about as tramatic as you could possibly imagine. I am not a very organized house keeper, and while we had gone through and gotten rid of tons of stuff there was still a huge amount to pack up. Woody and I were shocked at the bulk and realized that the 20 footer that we ordered was not going to cut it. So we got them to bring out a 40 foot ocena container and we bagan to load up.

There is so much moving on and off the island that the man power shortage on the moving trage is acute. We had maybe half of the people that we should have had and I did a lot of "supervised" packing. That means that the packer guy watched me then insured the good in my box. In professional moving, if you pack it not insured, if they pack it is insured. The crew cheif was a man Woody had met last year while working at the Naniloa Hotel as the consierge, Manu was a bell hop.

Well finaly, "the Marines landed" in the form of the loading crew that moved the store, showed up and things rolled. the only glitch was not having a seal for the can, but we were able to get one on and our worldly good leave for Port of Houston next week.

I am a nervious wreck. I am so thankful for Manu packing . I was amazed at the care that he took. I have 130 year old glasswear and china, ect and he treated it like his own...

Hale Pu'uhouna is vacant. I was very sad to see this and I did break down and cry in the gift shop in the Hilo airport. They had live coverage of the Hula competition at the Merrie monarch Festival and I was proud when I was able to say,Yes this is my home town and this is our moment in the world spotlight... No more. To tell people we are leaving brings out the best and the worst. \From encouragement to disappointment to verbage like" You sound bitter" a lady said that to Woody last night and he answered "Hell yes, Im bitter... this is killing my wife but starvation would have felt a heck of a lot worse"...

I smiled when he said this. He has said little to my face about how he feels about leaving so I got the message this way...

Honolulu was beautiful in the misty moonlight. This is a city that is everything LA dreams of being and more. Clean safe in the areas I have been in and the people really work at the "sharing the aloha" thing. We had a little hotel room at the Hawaii Polo Towers on Ala Moana at the top of Waikiki... Clean and nice but the bed was only a double and TINY! UGGH. We slept the sleep of the dead so weary from the whole packing thing.

The day brought us rainbows and blue skies. We are off to Maui like I said we have not been there and this was something that we really hoped to do before we left. We also were told that we can arrange a day trip to Molokai'i so we hope to do that.

I have down loaded photos, and I am taking pics so you can see this very different side of Hawaii. I am ever amazed at the beauty of this place, It blows me away every time.