
Still sick here! I’ve been blowing my nose about every 5 seconds. My colds tend to be the kind where my nose runs like a faucet, as opposed to being all stuffy. I’m wondering how I got this silly cold? If/when the super flu comes around, I’m totally a goner, by the way. I touch my face or stick my fingers in my eyes, nose, ears or mouth on average about 15 times per minute. I’m worse than the grubbiest toddler.
So I’m sickypoo, its been freezing over night and despite the fact I was on Maui visiting my dad less than 2 weeks ago, it seems like it happened a long long time ago.
Let’s look at some Maui pix! And I will feel better, and you will feel happier than listening to me yack about my inconsequential cold. (and in the past 2 seconds I touched my gums and the inside of my nose. Then my keyboard. I wonder why I’m sick???)

By the by, ‘Maui No Ka Oi’ means ‘Maui is the best’. Andrew likes to tell me how the Big Island of Hawaii and Kauai are way way better than Maui, despite the fact that he’s never been to Kauai. I’m going to go wipe my fingers on him. I just touched my lip.
I’m from ‘Historic Makawao’, if you were wondering! See the sign above? ‘Paniolo’ means ‘cowboy’ in Hawaiian. I've never been a paniolo, also in case you were wondering.

My dad lives a little way up this street. I tell people that I grew up in a pineapple field. That’s only a little lie. I grew up very near a pineapple field.

There are lots of eucalyptus trees along our road. My dad has a koi fish pond, but I think the koi might have died? Not sure. I forgot to look. That big mass of tree business is what you see behind my dad’s house, it’s across a ravine or gulch of some kind. I lived in the FLIPPING STICKS. Pretty sticks, though.

Gardenias grow like weeds. WEEDS. Gardenias! Why don’t all weeds look like gardenias??



More Makawao. Best shopping on the island! Also Paia, I’ll show you that town next. Want to
‘Have a Maui Christmas’? Sure you do!

Here I am taking my life into my hands by pulling off to the side of the road so that I can show you how I am travelling downcountry. There is upcountry and downcountry. And there is the middle, halfway up the mountain part, which is where I lived.

Now we’re downcountry! In the little town of
Paia. Which is now a really cute town with cute shops and cute eateries. When I was growing up, only hippies and out of work surfers frequented Paia. Now hippies, out of work surfers, and tourists frequent Paia.

Please don’t pronounce Paia the same way as “paella”, which is what Andrew likes to do, to annoy me. It sounds like “pie-EE-uh”.
Just past Paia is
Ho’okipa, which is considered the windsurfing capital of the world. You don’t get in the water at Ho’okipa unless you totally know what you’re doing, swimming and surfing-wise.
I have never put one toe in the water at Ho’okipa.
I did however, climb under a fence that I wasn’t supposed to, because 1) everyone else was doing it, which is always the best reason to do something, and 2) how else was I going to get any awesome water shots? My telephoto only goes so far.
Ho’okipa is beautiful but scary. Like, this kind of scary.
Gorgeous pictures! My husband was stationed in Oahu during his Marine Corps days, some years before I met him. He misses Hawaii to this day. He daydreams about going back. I have never been west of Phoenix, so I know nothing.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I said "Have A Maui Christmas" aloud, and I sounded like my youngest daughter - she has trouble with her Rs. ;o)
Now, go grab some Lysol and start disinfecting everything...
I definitely should wipe down my mouse and keyboard! doh, just touched the inside of my ear....AAAAAGH!
DeleteWow. I need a vacation!!
ReplyDeleteI need a vacation from my cold! tee hee :)
DeleteAll of these pictures are absolutely stunning! Craving a beachy, sunny Christmas one of these days ;)
ReplyDeletexo TJ
Hey TJ! You know, a Christmas with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, being warm, looking at the water -- I can totally see the appeal!
DeleteOh how beautiful! Does hawaii smell like gardenias? I love that smell. :) Hope you feel better soon--those pictures should lift you up a bit!
ReplyDeleteThe air does smell like flowers in a lot of spots, it really does!! My dad asked me if I missed living on Maui. I miss the weather for sure, and the natural beauty. But the grocery stores there would send me into some kind of tailspin of despair. (So expensive and so not very good!) Also, no Trader Joe's. THE HORROR.
DeleteWow. What a beautiful, beautiful place to grow up. Amazing! A land where Gardinias grow like weeds sounds positively magical....feel better soon!~!
ReplyDeleteParadise! Such beautiful shots! I wished we had many gardenias here!
ReplyDeleteBeing sick is awful! It really affects my mood. I really hope you feel better soon! Always a good idea to look at pics of paradise ;)
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