Greatful Dead Trees

Trust Everything with Caution. Everytime I log in to write a blog, this first line in always there. I have always written over it but this time I will leave it. I know what it means to me. What does it mean to you?

Deb and I have done it. We went to Hawaii and were able to come back in one piece. I had a good time in that I found out Hawaii is a good place to visit and vacation. I can probably do the same thing in my back yard. What did Deb find out in Hawaii. Probably that there are places to vacation and there are places to visit.

I think places to visit would be less intriguiging than places to vacation. You know what, we flew there on an airplane, total fly time of about 10 hours. We stayed in a hotel with a t.v., shower, bed, and ironing board. This is not much different than staying at the Days Inn in Sheboygan. The tempature, of course, was about 30 degrees warmer.

We ate very well there, whether being fed by the credit union function or by ourselves. One dinner tab exceeded 230. We went to eat with a couple we met there who nearly reached the same tab we had. I was the most expensive and welcoming restaurant on the island....it is called Mama's Fish Shop. The scenery and atmosphere were one of a kind. I felt a bit guilty about this splurge of spending since the credit union was picking up the tab. But on the other hand, I was there to learn during the seminars that I attended.

We found some very cool artwork, which I took pictures of (and Deb deleted because the female upper anatomy was part of it) That is her peragotive. I will always hold it against her.

I went snorkeling twice. The second time I took some underwater photographs of fish. The first time I almost drowned. The first time is a long story, but as I was drowning, Deb was laughing because she thought I was fooling around. I noticed the couple next to her, (they were a little older) knew that my situation was serious. I could see the look on their faces!!! It was similar to mine.... their look said "that guy is drowning!!!!!" The look on my face was, "I am almost dead". Whatever it took, whether it was current in my favor or my 7th of my 9 lives, I was able to find the shore still conscious.

I fell prone on a beach chair and started choking up salt water for about 15 minutes..... the whole time Deb was asking what's up? I guess she doesn't really know what a drowing victim looks like up close..

Onto other things. There was a getko in our room on of the nights. I thought it was a humongous spider. Deb smashed it with her slippers and then because she was so grossed out, she through the slippers away.

The only other event worth mentioning was the rental car that we got. It had about 10k for mileage but it was trashed more than a 1984 dodge cold would have been trashed with 230,999 miles on it. I asked for a different car and it was a little better. It seemed like a care with only 200,000 miles on it. I again brought up this concern but the gal asked me what I wanted to do about it. I wanted a reasonable car. She suggested that they take an hour or 2 to detail the care so it was acceptable. I simply declined. We went to our resort room and crashed for the night.

With renewed energy from sleeping, I suggested we go back and get a car that would be acceptable. We were able to get one that had 9 miles on it. There was nothing we could complain about and it was fine so we took it.

It was actually a larger size car and it smelled new. I guess we couldn't have done better than that.

We took the road to Hana. It was the most windy, not windy but windy road, with curse every few hundred feet. Deb was near the steep rise of the shoulder which was actually vertical. She was about 2 feet away from the terrain and it was causing significant car sickness. I offered to pull over for her to vomit. She said she would manage.

When we were coming down this road to Hana, I decided that I needed to take picture without stopping. This was unacceptable to Deb so I offered to have her walk back. After a calculated compromise. She stayed in the car and I continued to take pictures as I drove. (I am sorry for the bikers who lost control while I was on the wrong side of the road). Some would say it was accidental, I just say their brakes were not appropriately adjusted. Either way, nobody was injured, arrested, or died that we know about.

We never made it to Hana but we were able to visit a house for sale. It was a 2 br, 2 bth house, over looking nothing but some trees for 890,000. That is the equilalent to $890,000. The most impressive thing about the home was that it was on 2.5 acres.

I think that was a lot for a house.

On the way back we say another house, probably about 6 times the size with both a bluff view and the ocean view, all in brick and upscale building materials. We guessed its value of about 6 million but we are probably low.