My wife and I and two friends flew to Maui today to visit Maui. I used to live here in Hana and Paia in 1989 and 1990 with two of my older children and my youngest daughter then who was about a year or so old then but is around 36 years old now. So, Maui is like a 2nd home for me sort of like Mt. Shasta in some ways.
The low tonight is 74 degrees which is nice but there is also a lot when you change rooms and change islands like:
Pack your stuff
Find your rental car (which might be 6 blocks away parked somewhere)
Pack your rental car
Check out of your hotel room
Get patted down by TSA employees because I have a pacemaker and can't go through their machines.
Get your stuff
Reorganize.
Get to Gate to leave and fly to Maui
Fly to Maui
Best landing ever on the roller coaster ride landing in Kahului always is.
Get your luggage even though you were looking on the wrong baggage conveyer belt until a nice lady told our group we were looking on the wrong conveyer belt.
Get your luggage
Take a Tram to Rental car area
Rent your Car
Take an elevator down to get car
first one was dysfunctional
Get back in line to get different car
Get different car
At this point we hadn't eaten since 8 am
It's 4:30Pm when we finally ate for the 2nd time that day.
It's 5:30pm and we better get to Costco before it closes at 7
Drive to Costco
Find a parking place
Get a grocery cart
fill the grocery cart or carts
Check out of Costco and pay for food
Go out and load car with food and people
Drive to Hotel on the other side of the Island
Get trolleys to fill up two trolleys with luggage and
find elevator to rooms
On the way the wind was so strong from the storm that several bags and a plastic container of Croissants blew off one of the carts
Salvaged everything some how without dropping any food on ground outside of a container
Find elevator to different tower than we stayed before.
Amazed at stuff blowing of I was barely able to recover without a problem
find rooms
find friend also rolling a trolley full of stuff
Decide which set of rooms we want
unload the trolleys into rooms and refrigerators or whatever.
Go out on veranda in 75 degrees with the palm trees blowing.
It's now 12 hours later than when we first got going loading the car.
This is what changing islands is actually like including car rental and everything else.
It's exhausting but somehow worth it!
Sitting on the terrace watching the palm trees move in the winds at night is really something while hearing the waves of the ocean hitting the beaches too. It's now 9 pm and 75 degrees on the terrace with the winds blowing.
Heaven but exhausting moving from island to island like this.
But, still heaven when you can rest up a bit!
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