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Maui Slideshow
Maui
Travel Blogs from Maui, United States
HE SAID: Plate Lunch Anyone??
... salad, kinda like a ceviche). It is typically prepared by mixing raw salted, diced salmon with tomatoes, sweet mild maui onions (or sometimes green onions), and occasionally flakes of hot red chili pepper. ...
We've Moved
... in Honolulu. We had a double elevator ride. Up, level, land from Kauai to Honolulu followed by up, level, land from Honolulu to Maui. The trip from the airport in Maui to the hotel was interesting with a stop at the Iao Needle, a lava spout covered ...
HE SAID: RANDOM THOUGHTS
... your girlfriend or wife to the car rental policy. A crummy driver on the mainland generally equates to a terrible driver in Maui. Another day in paradise. Going to try my hand at standup paddle surfing soon. Eating tons of vegetables and fruits I ...
Day 5 - Lahaina, Maui
... up and went out to dinner at a restaurant that overlooked a luau. We had seenn parts of the show from our hotel room but now we had a better view of the dancers. This is our last night in Maui. Tomorrow morning we head to the Big ...
Maui - day 3
... summer days we have back home. It's quite warm, verging on hot, but without ever going over the edge into too hot. Maui is expensive, yes. Breakfast at this place down the road, the Kihei Caffe, easily runs over 20 bucks American. However, the ...
The Road to Hana ... Sort Of
... on the other islands are caused by rainfall in the mountains that rushes downhill, overflowing streams and causing landslides and sinkholes. Maui, although not experiencing the same heavy rain, has many, many streams running past The Road to the ocean. ...
SHE SAID: Sorry I'm late. . . . .AGAIN.
... a warm sea (I can't stand cold water especially in a pool). The greatest part of it all is, it's still in the UNITED STATES! My driver's license is valid, my health insurance is accepted, I know the language fluently and I can Facebook and ...
The road to Hana and back...
Our adventure continues: we woke up early Wednesday morning, packed up the Ford Escape and set off around 10 am for our drive to Hana. We got sidetracked at the Harley dealership buying t-shirts, but then were on our way. The first town we came to was ...
Capt John, Give Me a Hamburger Now!
... it was too rough for snorkelling at Molokini. How disappointing! Instead, the captain slowly turned the back toward the coast of Maui and headed for Coral Gardens, a coastal snorkelling area that would be sheltered from the wind. As the ship ...
Snorkeling Success!!!
... up the red flags behind me as I walked along. OK, so no snorkeling here today. I went back home and checked my Maui guides for other nearby snorkeling beaches that would be good for beginners. Ulua Beach was mentioned and it was only a couple of ...
I'm Sleeping With a Bush Boy...
...Does that make me a "Bush girl"? Dasha has always wanted to sleep in a water bed. In the 80's, she always dreamed of having one of those funky beds, filled with water, molded precisely to her body; that would float her dreams away into ...
Aloha from Lahaina
... cameras, buy a snorkel mask (left mine in San Diego), mail some letters and hit the FAST 8 cents per min. computers at Buns of Maui. I know this area so well now, I didn't even need directions. Gwen is in the ship's dining room enjoying her daily hot cup ...
Listening to the waves at 5:30 am...
... down the hours. It was a really long flight, but once we got here, we decided it was worth it. After we got to the Maui airport, I went ahead to the car rental place and Steve and the kids stayed to collect Steve's bag. I rented our car (a red Ford ...
SHE SAID: Leaping Lizards!
... as bad. It never dawned on us that we could be dead at 1:11pm. All of beaches were closed on Oahu and Maui was expecting 4 foot waves at the shoreline! Needless to say, nothing happened. The only difference was the sea was really ...
SHE SAID: TURTLES!!!
... . I saw a rainbow.... No one was really impressed with that from my Facebook pictures I posted of it. Oh well. We don't have those in Vegas. I would strongly recommend Black Rock on the list of West Maui Beaches! Mo later. ...
Venturing into the Valley Isle
... of green islands in the South Pacific. We needed to survive for a week without breaking the bank while enjoying most of what Maui had to offer. Surprisingly, we managed to find a couch surfing host. For those of you who don't know what "Couchsurfing" is, ...
What 20-years will do for a person
... spend many years searching the world, learning about himself, and finding peace. Peace, I suppose, I never realized he was without. We landed in Maui in the morning, and as usual, I was the first to run off the ship. I had spoken to TJ earlier in the ...
Thanksgiving
... heritage and keep the tradition alive. Later on I asked Senator Kalani if he had any suggestions for travelers intending to visit Maui. There were two issues he felt strong about,"When driving down the Hana Highway, pull over for locals!" Let me ...
HE SAID: Major Discovery Today
A surfer dude at the beach yesterday told me one of his secret go to dishes. You take a papaya and cut it in half.......remove the seeds and cut open a lilikoli, which is an indigenous fruit of hawaii. You take the seeds out of the lilikoli ...
Hawaii
... am 15.9.09 um 07.15 Uhr gelandet. Wir hatten dank Datumsgrenze das Vergnuegen den 15.9.09 zweimal zu erleben :-) Hier auf Maui geniessen wir das super Wetter, den Strand und unser riesiges Garden Cottage. Highlight sind aber die tierischen Erlebnisse im ...
Lazy days of winter...
So, Matthew and I began our first day as husband and wife by going out to breakfast, where we both ordered the banana pancakes. Unbeknownst to us at the time of ordering, these were actually the largest pancakes in the history of the world. ...
Amerys Travels from Hawaii- the Island of Maui
... the Big Island near Kona, we have seen very little wildlife nearby- few geckos, fewer birds, and we have not seen one turtle in Maui! In our next instalment, we head away from the glitz for the wild rainforests on the coast road to ...
HE SAID: 5 DAYS INTO TRIP
... the freshest fruits and vegetables, all locally grown and its very inexpensive. Some of the things we purchased include: Maui Red Leaf and butter lettuce, Papayas, Pomelos, sweet maui onions, eggplant, large yellow and green squash, mushrooms, ...
steep twisty roads
The next day was our last attempt at visiting the one remaining 'must-do' on the island - the Halealaka crater. So the idea is that you get up at about 2:30am, drive up 10,000ft to the top of haleakala and ensure you're there one hour before ...
maui
Maui (Lahaina) off we go, but had to go over my tender boats, wow what a place, being Easter Saturday they had markets on and lots to see. Then we went on our submarine adventure and yes it was as great as I thought it would be. We dove ...
Shop, Shop, Shop!
Dear Readers, Thanks for the messages you've been sending us! We're still having a wonderful time. Today has been pretty low-key. I'm not sure we even took a single photo, but I've tried to upload the movie clips we've shot. This morning we ...
Zipline in Maui
... in Hawaii is the French Frigate Shoals – an important refuge for endangered wildlife which houses a field station for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service who manages the group of islands. ...
Maui- Amerys are 130 feet under water at Lahaina
... on the waterfront, we are here to take a ride in a real submarine outside the reef. http://www.atlantisadventures.com/maui.cfm It's nothing short of amazing that tourists can now travel 140 feet underwater like this, and over the last ...
Aloha!
... , I would probably stay here. Perhaps when it is all said and done, this will be where I spend my retirement. I'm in Maui waiting for a connecting flight to Oahu and I am exhausted, thanks to an awesome day/night with some friends from Temecula. I ...