The Long, Long Day

Monday, Nov. 11th - Rockin’ Girl and Bikin’ Boy head out early Monday morning, 2:30 am, to meet their group for the Haleakala bike ride down the volcano.













Rockin’ Girl was a bit miffed by the incorrect use of molten lava rock... because we all know we cannot walk on the stuff . . . and she does know what she's talking about. We don't call her Rockin' Girl for nothing.






It's safe once it's cool . . .then we can call it lava rock.<





It seems for some people that is not enough time on a bike. So why not throw in another 10 or so miles?








Then, as if all that was not enough, Rockin’ Girl and Bikin’ Boy headed down to find a black sand beach - One’uli Beach at Makena State Park.

They played in the ocean and had a chance to boogie board.

Road to Hana

November 13, 2011


It's time for the annual trip . . . because it's there.

The reason for the trip is not the road or Hana itself. It's the journey . . . seeing the waterfalls along the way

The road is not long but it snakes around

a bamboo forest occupies much of the interior . . . there could be one wild panda party!

There are many one lane, very old bridges built in the early 1900s.

The waterfalls can be spectacular!

At the end of the trip, not when you reach Hana, but when you return home you can say . . .

Our adventurers collapsed on the couch and lost themselves in the NFL football game.

Dinner was at the newly opened Monkeypod Kitchen- they are located in the Wailea Gateway Center, at the corner of Pi;ilani Hwy and Wailea Ike Drive. Their address: 10 Gateway Place, Unit B-201, Kihei, Maui HI

Our waiter reminded us of . . .

He took our drink orders: a lava flow and a Mai Tai. The Mai Tai had what they called Liliko'i (passion fruit) foam, it looked like the scum off the ocean.

You just stir it in and it's hardly noticeable.

Three of us had Mahi Mahi fish and chips. Instead of tartar sauce they had malt ale sauce. Yum.

Yes, Dirtboy had to have seconds.

Hubby had the Mahi Mahi fish tacos.

We sampled their pies for dessert. They make: Banana cream, Coconut cream, Chocolate cream, and Kula Strawberry cream (shown here.)

You'd better like a little pie with your cream cause there's a lot of it, not the Redi-Whip kind either.