Aloha!

Aloha from Kapalua Hawai'i. My two favorite ladies, with a bit of the Pacific in the upper right corner:

Although we spent a ton of time at the beach, we managed to take not a single picture.

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The hotel pool at night, with the ocean in the back ground:

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The beach was always always always sunny and 85 degrees, but you only had to step out the back side of the hotel to find rain forest.

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Maui is a volcanic island and we took a drive to the Haleakala National Park to check out the volcano. There are miles and miles of this moonscape stuff. The top of the volcano is at 10,000' elevation. Of course there is a well-paved road to the top. The road gains 10,000' in ~ 35 miles. Just give me a bike and the course record...

The intrepid climbers at the summit.

Check out the telescopes in the pic below. Seems like a lot of infrastructure to put at the top of a volcano that last erupted only 200 years ago. This facility is off-limits to the general public and is used for satellite tracking.

By a stream in Iao State Park:

The Iao Needle. This thing juts up something like a 1000' from the valley floor.



I didn't realize until after the fact that she had her finger in the candle.

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Partying like a rock star with her new German girl friend.

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Taking pictures with a pirate in Lahaina.

At the base of the world's largest Banyan tree.

The days were chock full of action, and we didn't always make it through dinner without checkin' out.

Until next time, who knows how long that might be!

T