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Truth Seeker |
This was probably the best vacation I have done. Spending time with friends at their house helped make it special. They have tons of fruit trees in their yard so each morning we had fresh papaya, guava, dragon fruit, limes, etc. This is a trip my mom and I will cherish and remember for the rest of our lives. I bought on of those solar powered hula girls and it now sits on my desk doing her hula dance to always remind me. Of course I now also have a TON of new computer desktop background photos. NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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| Truth Seeker |
I wonder why it does that???????? NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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Great pics. Glad to hear your trip went well. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
Probably not too far from my wife's cousin's place on Maui which also had a lower level guest suite. We stayed there three nights.  Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Truth Seeker |
Looks like you watched a bomb explode!! NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado |
Burning sugar cane waste Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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Knowing locals, and being able to stay with them, makes any travel experience a bonus. Fruit tastes so much better in HI, can't tell you what it is, likely mental but, damn, every morning, I'd eat so much pineapple, papaya, and mango that my mouth would be raw.  I miss the islands, I need to plan a trip...thank you for sharing your experience. | |||
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| Conservative in Nor Cal constantly swimming up stream  |
I have a buddy who lives on Maui. His deck looks out across the middle of the island at the volcano. I was a little appalled at the fires they burned that smoked up the valley. When I said something to him, he said that it’s done often and no big deal because all the smoke will just blow away in a couple of hours. Trade winds are our friend he said. ----------------------------------- Get your guns b4 the Dems take them away Sig P-229 Sig P-220 Combat | |||
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goodheart |
Those of you talking about burning sugar cane are years behind the times. If you look at Stormin' Norman's photos from the balcony of the home he was staying in, as well as the photos from Kula Lodge, you will see brown--not green--fields. The sugar cane is gone; the smelly sugar mill is gone, and a huge part of the Maui culture is gone for good. No HCS fire teams to help with fires, so fires are more likely to be uncontrolled. Yes, the burning was annoying, what with the "Maui snow" and the smoke, but if I could choose, I would have wanted them to keep producing sugar cane. BTW, I understand that since the Kilauea eruption on the BI a few years ago, the vent that spewed vog--that sometimes came around to Maui if the trade winds weren't blowing--closed. I wouldn't miss the vog. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Dinosaur |
I agree 100% and personally I kinda miss “Maui Snow”, although I don’t clean the pool. | |||
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| goodheart |
Thanks, Bob! Maui no ka oi! _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
My best friend in the world owns a large home on the Big Island. He offers the house to me when I go, but I always decline for various reasons and stay at either the Sheraton or a VRBO. We spend 2 weeks every year on the Big Island and yes, things taste different there. I lived on Oahu for a year and a half in the Army, a year of it in an Apartment above Honolulu and while I like Hawaii as a place to vacation, I wouldn't consider living there. | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain.  |
Absolutely. Lived/worked on Maui in 2007 for the year, I have a lot of great memories from that time. I've been back for a wedding and several leisure trips. I look forward to going back soon. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Don't Panic |
Browser settings, combined with the fact many image-storing sites are 'not secure' meaning they don't meet updated browser standards. I've had to tweak Google Chrome into allowing display of 'insecure content' for SIGforum.com, and then everything started displaying again. That is NOT a setting I would use or recommend for just any site (actually, this is the only one I've done so with) but I didn't want to miss the photo content here. | |||
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The eggs taste so much better to me, and the coffee, the fruit, even ham. And the fish, fuggetaboutit. I don’t buy bottled water there either, no need. Great pics. Jealous. I have to wait until February. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Living in the SF Bay Area, the C+H sugar mill in Crockett was the end-point destination for all the cane coming from HI, last shipment from the islands was around '15-16. Its a bummer a big part of Hawaiian culture and economy was its plantation fields of pineapples and cane. Hopefully, those agriculture areas remain but used to feed the islands, I was always baffled by the amount of produce and food stuffs that was imported to the islands. | |||
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