The list
- Kmart for Hawaiian Shirts
- Maybe Costco, too (all my Hawaiian shirts were tattered and I’ve left them behind over the years)
- Discount Fabric Warehouse (multiple coupons)
- Haleakala National Park ($10 entrance, but I have “the card” with Yellowstone at $25 and Craters of the Moon at $8, so far, recovered $43 out of the $80 fee). Oddly enough with my many trips to Maui, haven’t done this park yet. So much for laying out in the sun on this trip.
- Surfing Goat Dairy
- Home (well, to the condo).
This is not the day for someone who easily gets car sick hair-pin after hair-pin turn.
This wasn’t taken at the top (click on the scroller bar at the end of the post for other pictures (like my improvised cooler water frozen into the bottom of a sealable Pyrex bowl). Height at the top: 10,023 feet. It reminded me of Craters of the Moon which I visited on the Yellowstone trip, just add another 6,000 feet in altitude. One interesting fact I learned from the ranger manning the gift shop cash register 80% of the entrance fee from my “park pass” stays in the park ($8 of the $10 entrance fee) the other 20% goes to parks that don’t have entrance fees.
Once I was off the mountain, it was time for a little road-side lunch of shrimp stuffed avocados and onion tako poke. All kept on ice in the truck.
After the mountain it was off to the Goat Dairy. I arrived right at the moment a tour was about to become ready. $7.00, plus more if you wanted a bag of hay to feed the young kids (the goats, not the children on the tour. I’m not sure how much the hay cost I’d rather BBQ the goat than feed it.
And the cheeses aren’t cheap. $12-16 for an 8 ounce jar in oil. Ouch. Of course they do have one with 23K gold flakes in it for a 2 ounce jar at least that one comes with a basket and a shark’s tooth necklace.
Tasty but not as tasty (or as cheap) and our cheese man from Eastern Washington (http://quillisascut.com/) who occasionally comes to town with extra cheese that doesn’t get sold to Rover’s and that class of restaurant.
After a fruitless trip to WalMart (desperation)for aloha shirts, it was back to the fabric store they have some really GREAT patterns and some good deals. Check out this one:
My thought was just make Hawaiian shirts to replace my dead ones since I couldn’t find any decent (and cheap) ones on my visit here. I even found a Aloha Shirt pattern for a 2XL that would mean 3 yards of fabric ($5-7 a yard on sale, so that would be $15-21 a shirt and I’d have to deal with the buttons). The flip side of that is that I haven’t sewn a shirt since I was a teenager, and the pain is still fresh. Maybe I’ll get to Costco on the way to the airport.
Got back to the condo a little after 3pm to do a little clean up, a little email, and a little mindless web-surfing.
Leg of lamb was the dinner tonight, along with a salad with some more of the bay shrimp, and the other half of the bottle of 2009 Budini Malbec (Mendoza region of Argentina).
Tomorrow’s flight is a reasonable 12:35 so that’s out of the condo 10ish after a breakfast very much like this mornings 3 eggs sunny side up, bacon, toast, coffee. I guess that would 9:30ish if I want to stop by Costco so see if I can get some shirts. I did pick up Man Calendars at the ABC store across the street from the condo when I went for butter (and on-sale bacon) last night.
Wish I’d booked another day (or two) and skipped the Washington Coast on Saturday but I did promise to go.
Oh, and here is the promised scroller bar:
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