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06-09-2006, 06:29 PM
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| The Original BagMan  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Shalimar, FL
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| Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 Updated and final entry 6/23 [b]First, the title… Aloha is the Hawaiian greeting, with many meanings. One islander says aloha means "Hello, goodbye, love, compassion, welcome, good wishes. It means belonging to others with a common humanity. It's defined better as a feeling in the heart than by words." Kana is Hawaiian for Jan… Pila is Hawaiian for Bill… Next, the background… At the beginning of this year, Jan and I planned on taking an Alaskan Cruise this summer. I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] the cold country and icebergs… Well, in the spring, as I was planning this float trip, Jan comes up to me and asks if I would mind going to Hawaii instead [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] What about Alaska? Well, it seems our oldest sons ex-wife (whom we still get along with) contacted Jan via Yahoo instant messenger and asked if we would escort Kristen, our 9 year old granddaughter, over for her summer visitation with her mother (Mary). We could stay with them, and while there we could use her husbands truck to travel where we wanted to. Let me think about this, under $1000 for plane tickets plus spending money or around $35oo plus spending money for the cruise we were looking at. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Cold versus warm, land versus boat, wife happy instead of accepting… [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] my mind was made up (for me). “Sure Honey, we’ll escort the little one to Hawaii and spend a week,” that was the original plan. Well, after doing a little research, we realized a week wasn’t going to cut it so we set it up for 10 days [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thewave.gif[/img] So… on to the planning. After days and days and days on the internet, talking to folks that had been there (this was our first time) and looking at travel magazines, books, etc… our plan came together. We decided to leave Florida on 5/19 and return to Florida on 5/31 and do whatever we wanted or could in the middle [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] NEXT: Leaving Florida…    |
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06-09-2006, 06:43 PM
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| Snarky yet loveable  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: second star to the right
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 Ah, that was nice of Jan to let you think you made up your own mind [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Silly man! Can't wait to hear some more and see some of those pictures. |
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06-09-2006, 07:25 PM
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| RED SOX NATION!!  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 Talk about opposite ideas of a vacation [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] I'm so glad you've finally started this Bill [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] Bring it on [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img]    |
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06-09-2006, 08:16 PM
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 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Tulsa, OK
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 Great start, so glad your doing a trip report. |
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06-09-2006, 10:30 PM
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| Community Rank: Traveler   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: North Carolina
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 We have something in common, Bill! I'm going to Oahu next week and like you, we were originally planning on taking an Alaskan cruise instead. Funny how things work out... Shelli |
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06-09-2006, 10:31 PM
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| Community Rank: Navigator   Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Davidsonville, MD
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 I'm anxiously waiting to see more photos. I'm looking through mine because we stood in the same spots and took the same photos, only four years apart! |
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06-10-2006, 04:48 AM
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 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 I wondered how you guys ended up changing from the Alaskan cruise you were talking about when we last saw you to Hawaii - now it all makes sense. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Cool title by the way! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] |
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06-10-2006, 08:10 AM
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| The Original BagMan Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Shalimar, FL
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 [b] NEXT: Leaving Florida… Well, all good planning must come to an end… as well as the moderately and no planning [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] The trip begins!!! We did the on-line checking thing and found the we were seated together on the flight, but the first leg we were seated one behind the other [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] So… Once we got to the airport, we got that fixed, but it wouldn’t have been that bad, it was a small airplane and only for about 1.5 hours from here to Dallas, TX. Anyway, our oldest son, granddaughter, son’s fiancé and her son picked us up at the house around 8:30-8:45AM. Our flight was due to take off around 10:30AM. Now, I haven’t flown in 20+ years and Jan’s only flight in her life was about 2 weeks before we took this trip. It’s good she did that, cause that gave us a clue as to what to expect with all the “security” changes… We don’t have curb check-in for our bags here, so we get a porter to lug them in for us and get them checked. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img] Now it’s the waiting game, so we go to the little restaurant/gift/ice cream shop and get some breakfast. After a Danish and some coffee, we’re ready to go. Now, I don’t have a computer for this trip, Jan brought hers. So my backpack (which is really a large camera bag capable of carrying a computer also) is loaded with cameras, batteries, a storage device for downloading memory cards on-the-go, and other such stuff. Those who know me, know how much I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] my camera gear. This trip I’m carrying my Olympus DSLR (the E-500, 8MP, with 2 lenses), my Olympus C-770 (4MP with a 10x zoom), and my digital video camera (which we didn’t use at all). Jan is carrying her Olympus D-40 (4MP, 3x zoom) which she used for a couple of days then switched to my C-770) We go through security… I forgot to take the video camera out of my backpack and it set off a few alarms [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] Once we realized it was the video camera, we removed it and re-ran the backpack through and all was well… Shoes back on, bags repacked, and off to the waiting room… Our flight was scheduled to leave around 10:30AM and we did get off on time. I sat on the left (port) side of the aircraft and Jan sat on the right (starboard) side. Kristen was sitting next to Jan. This aircraft is small and it is set up with one seat on the left of the aisle and 2 on the right. I shot a few [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] photos while taxiing out as well as on takeoff and in flight… Jan did also [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It was a little hazy today…..  Me checking out my camera as we got ready to taxi, and yes… I am wearing one of my WDW Tie Die Shirts, I don’t want to get lost [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]  Kristen telling us something… Our airport is co-located with Eglin AFB. On Jan’s side you could see the tactical Fighter Area as we taxied out for take-off…  F-15’s parked on the ramp…  Airborne looking towards Destin from Jan’s side of the aircraft.  Destin from Jan’s side…  The portion of the air terminal from my side of the aircraft. We had to walk out to the plane walk up the steps, no air conditioned corridor here …  One of the taxiways…  Taxiway and the control tower…  Rolling down the runway…  Lift Off!!!  Part of Eglin AFB…  Eglin AFB, Valparaiso, and Niceville… Some of the local area…  Blue Water Bay area, just east of Niceville…  White Point Recreation Area and the Hunter Army Air Field Family Camp Grounds, located right on the water…  The airport we just took off from…  More of the local area… Some assorted shots between Ft. Walton Beach and Dallas…      A Fire…  Some of Jan’s shots…  Me…Knapping errrr resting up for more picture taking….yeah, that’s it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]   Approaching Dallas, my pics   Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport  Roads…    Landing…   At Dallas, we had a little wait and were hungry, so we head to our next terminal and off to McDonalds for lunch. Shortly, we’re off to the aircraft for our next little hop to Los Angeles… This time we’re on a larger aircraft, and Jan got the window. Kristen is sitting between us and I get the aisle…  Dallas, as we taxi back out…  Out the window, no zoom… Some Cloud Pics, I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] cloud pics..      This was somewhere between Dallas and Los Angeles…  NEXT: LA to Honolulu… |
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06-10-2006, 08:41 AM
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| RED SOX NATION!! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut
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| Re: Aloha Kana and Pila – Part 1 Great pictures Bill [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Love the cloud ones [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] |
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