UMTravels

Here’s todays plan — and no wi-fi at the airport so this will be it: 7:30 am — grab buns from downstairs 8:30 am — morning routine of mail, shower, newspaper 10:00 am — check-out 10:15 am — catch the 19 or 20 bus to the airport ($2) 11:30 am — settle into the Delta [...]

Well — after a breakfast of coffee and banana in the room and a couple of ham and cheese crescents in the lobby (and it was 9:45!), it was off on a walking tour of Honolulu. I’m not quite sure I realized how far it was to CompuUSA. According to Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006, [...]

So — that real estate property I listed a couple of days ago is part of a wave of hotels turned condos run by hotel groups — called Condotels. Best I can tell, I’m staying in one — though I haven’t seen any of these units on the resale market. Basically you buy your hotel [...]

Sunday morning — grab coffee, muffins, and the big paper in the lobby at 8am — good thing — there was a crowd. Grabbed a banana for tomorrow now that they’ve put coffee back in my unit. Once again I’m on the 10am Hilo Hattie shuttle — did round one of shopping and then walked [...]

One of our faithful readers asked the question: What makes those mugs so special? The answer is that they are free, without requiring any purchase whatsoever, though I feel compelled to buy something of about the same value with each trip to get one of the mugs. The coupon says “A $7 Value” which is [...]

Up at 8, downstairs for the continental breakfast by 9 — which is good because they were out of pastries by 9:15…. guess I’ll have to plan on earlier times downstairs — and I think I’ll just bring it back to the room and read the paper. Might as well make coffee in the room [...]

Lovely Swanda ride to the airport — of course, he is expecting mugs in return. Maybe I should go earlier — at 6:30 it’s always a half an hour to get through security — at 5:45 it’s half that — which means more time in the Board Room getting the full use from my membership. [...]

Jill needs to be at the airport at 7:30am — so it’s out of bed at 6am. This has got to stop. Easy flight to Honolulu — the woman at the desk at the Crown Club is starting to recognize both Jill and I. Flight to Seattle was at 2:30 (because of daylight savings time). [...]

Butt early call from the front desk. 5am. Ick. Need to be at Maui Dive at 5:45 for equipment fitting, and 6:45am at the boat ramp for our 2-for-1 snorkel trip that I won my first trip to Kihei, Maui, WorldMark. Continental breakfast — sweet bread, donut holes, etc — followed by fresh fruit — [...]

Sunday on Maui — no church for us. Sleeping in is more like it (at least for Jill). Today’s errands include, yet another run to Hilo Hatties for more of those free mugs. With today’s two, we (or I should say, I since Jill doesn’t want any of them) to ten matching coffee mugs. And [...]

A leisurely day of eggs in the a.m. and then heading off to the airport with yet another stop at Hilo Hatties for coffee mugs — and two makes six. Jill is on Hawaiian, I’m on Aloha (for the United miles). I leave first, and get in first, Jill is a half an hour later [...]

Up at 6:30, on the road by 7:30am — got to Dave’s place about 9:15 or so. Office wasn’t open so I couldn’t pick up my FedEx package from SmithBarney. Dave’s place. Stunning. Mom would love it. Same architect designed Bill Gate’s house. This one is three bedrooms and very ship like in the use [...]

Greetings from my Honolulu office.   This would be the cubby that I occupy on all my Honolulu layovers. Not bad. Got a printer. Got a paper shredder. Got a copy machine. Got a free open bar. Maybe I should move here. Or, maybe I should just buy a customized A380 (holds up to 888 [...]

Greetings from the Delta Crown Room in Honolulu — again. Got through security by 10am, and a snack and into the Crown Room by 10:30am — meeting Jill’s flight that is scheduled to be in at noon, mine was half an hour early — and the website says hers is as well even though it [...]

Up at 5:30am because I booked (badly) an early morning flight when I should have booked an afternoon flight — but at $19 each way the change charge would have been $100 plus the difference in fare, probably another $100. Flight was at 9am, and by 10am I was in my first room (166) at [...]

Morning: Up early because some inconsiderate person set the alarm for 6:30 — decided to get out of bed at seven — blatter calls. And what the hell, at 8:30 there is the”orientation” for island activities, and I haven’t been in a year — and there is a lottery! Donut holes, melon, and juice and [...]

Up surprisingly early for a holiday — 7am+. It’s time to move condos on the Hawaii Condo Hop. Two nights at Valley Isle in a 2-bedroom, one night in a 2-bedroom (less desirable location) in Kihei, one night in a one-bedroom (limited view), followed by Monday night at the Castle Honolulu Airport Hotel. This is [...]

What a view to wake up to…      The second shot is of the kitchen/living room/dining room. The bedroom (the master, not the one with two twin beds at the back) is to the left of these shots, but has the same, if not better, view of the ocean. I must have done something right [...]

Morning report: Up at 5am, out of the house by 5:30am. In the security line at 6:10am when I realized I left my boarding pass in the car — thank god for electronic terminals rather than lines! Was drinking in the board room by 6:35am. TIP: Don’t Use The Alaska/United Seurity Checkpoint — Even The Handicapped/First [...]

It’s not THAT bad. It’s just a travel day where I’ve been up late packing. And I mean late. 3:30am, or was it 4. Eating breakfast by 8:30 which is miracle for Jeff — considering how hung over he is, and that he doesn’t do mornings. GE and Riversong were a little late to pick [...]