Wowie Maui, Hawaii May 2005 Exactly two years after our honeymoon to Hawaii (Kauai, Big Island, Oahu), Hoang's performance at work earned her a trip to Maui. Yes folks, your generous Aetna premiums in the early to mid 2000's helped the company pay for a couple hundred or so top performers and their spouses to stay … [Read more...]
Henry Obookiah’s Cenotaph
Aloha! Aloha. Henry (Opukaha'ia) Obookiah’s Cenotaph, Cornwall February 25, 2012 This page also serves as a book review of Sarah Vowell's "Unfamiliar Fishes." [Cenotaph: a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is buried elsewhere.] Six years into this whole CTMQ thing, I still … [Read more...]
Southernmost Point in the US
Bonus! Ka Lae Big Island of Hawaii (Right here!) June 1, 2003 [Note: The pictures are fuzzy because I pulled them off my old blog and had to enlarge them. Sorry.] If you consider yourself a "Parrot Head" and you've spent too much time, "Nibblin' on sponge cake, watchin' the sun bake... wasted away again in … [Read more...]
Hawaii: Mauna Kea
Highpoint # 6 Mauna Kea, 13,796 Feet June 4, 2003 After bagging 5 northeastern highpoints in 2002, it was time for us to get a big one. I needed a good excuse to convince Hoang to go to Hawaii (let alone to a desolate, cold, Martian-like mountain top), so I started planning way back in the summer of 2001 and … [Read more...]