April 09, 2005

Honolulu City Lights***revised post****

Hanuma Beach Oahu Google photo

This post was revised 4-12-05 at the Honolulu Airport

I was posting this at a outdoor internet koisk on Seaside and Kuhio in Waikiki when the power went down and we had a bus to catch... Havent blogged since..

Our hotel was so so and nothing to write home about. We slept here and that was about it, anyway we were on the go from early in the morning till often midnight...
We used the public bus system and went all over the island... Both Woody and I loved leaving the driving to someone else...

People here seem to have a lot of mixed feelings about Honolulu. I love this city of 3 million. For me it has all of the things a big city should have and a lot of things no one else has. I mean I am blogging out under palm trees with the smell of coppertone in the air. The place bustles and people on holiday are shopping. The sound of windchimes, Japanese, choir music from the church up stairs and across the way fills the air... Clean Fresh Air in a downtown area. That is amazing!

If I could afford to live here I would. I think I could get used to the traffic, the 6 am wake up call by the trash man, and the glory of Waikiki Beach in my back yard. After all this is all L.A. EVER dreamed of being, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu and Hawaii all rolled into one.

You see those "Got? "this or that signs everywhere. "Got Aloha?" "Got Poi" "Got Mana?" (inner strength,)

Got Surf?, Got Access? (computer not beach, everyone has that!)Got Gucci?

Yea, I got it... and you can get it everywhere around here...

As long as you "got job" and "got crib" or a place to stay. Rents are huge and the waiting lists for flats is long long long...

Median price for a fee simple home here... 585,000... most are 750,000 and up. Only Maui is higher.


we had dinner last night at the "Top of Waikiki" a revolving resturant just above me as I type. The food was ok and the service was lousy but the view THE VIEW was fabulous. We watched the sun go down and saw the surfers brave the evening shark feeding time to catch a few more wind driven waves. Then we walked the broad Kalakaua Blvd., with its designer shops and ocean views. Waikiki boasts the police station on the most prime real estate you can imagine, front and center in the midst of the worlds most famous beach

Woody and I are off to the Polynesian Cultural center today. This is Hawaii's Idea of Disneyland. Will tell you all about it... next time...