Posted on 08/11/2023 1:41:23 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
YW
we were there for a lovely lunch on a day trip.
I cannot believe what happened.
The irony is the other side of the island gets around 300 inches a year
Lahaina is on the leeward side of Maui, so the climate is much dryer than the windward side, only a few miles away. This is typical of Hawaii. On Oahu, the land around Makaha Beach resembles a desert, but Kaneohe, 40 miles to the east, gets constant rain.
Yes, it’s almost unbelievable.
My favorite memory of lahinia was walking out of the Maui outlets on front street and out front was a young kama’aina guy was sitting playing his acoustic guitar .
(In Seattle it was common for street musicians to be playing with an open guitar case for donations.)
So I thought he was a kama’aina street musician, so I pull a $5 bill out to donate and since there was no case I waited till he was done with the melody he was playing and walked up and stuck it in the sound hole.
He started laughing and asked me
” why you do that brah ? “
Then I realized he was just some guy playing his guitar on front street
So embarrassing/-)
I said I thought he was a street musician like in Seattle..
He laughed again and said he was just waiting on a freind to meet up with ,,
I said I liked the song and hoped I didn’t offend him , that his performance was worth $5 to me and that I wanted him to have it cuz I enjoyed listening to him.
Later that day I saw him at a waterfall out Hanna way that people go swimming at. He points me out to his friends and says “ there’s that guy I told you about” and they and I started laughing . he came and talked with me for a few minutes and I felt really at home talking to him and a lot less like a tourist, almost felt like a kama’aina myself.
God bless the people of Maui.
“The air is so DEW-y sweet, you don’t even have to lick the stamps.”- Newman, Seinfeld.
That’s an American city? Where are all the homeless???
“God bless the people of Maui.”
+1
Good question.
Looks as if our fellow countrymen on Maui know how to take care of each other. Aloha spirit.
Yes. The only time I lived outside the United States was at Kaneohe.
China taking revenge for the downed balloon ? Who knows. We see a flurry of stories on “ufo”s being sighted everywhere and no one can , or will, explain what they are. A couple of weeks later an idyllic seaside town is burned to cinder.
Oh,, shameless plug for a dive shop i hope survived .
on the south side of lahinia there is a dive shop on the waterline,,
the shop has a patented snorkel design they sell that makes breathing much more efficient and easier to breath through
( I won’t give the design away, I’ll just say that you aren’t inhaling half the exhale you just exhaled that is still in the uptube,, it really works.)
My favorite bottle of perfume came from a little shop in Lahaina.
Thank you for that beautiful video. I want to remember Lahaina that way.
The homeless are on Oahu. They haven’t found Maui yet.
-—outside the United States? You were there before 1898?
It wasn’t a State until 1959.
I can’t watch. It’s just too sad.
They finally got the ferry?
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