Hawaii is done for a few years

February 2011 will be a new destination. I have been to all the Hawaian islands and will start a new area of the world in 2011. It will be in February and it will be warm.  Thanks for all the cool e-mails and comments.

Sleep is good

After I got back from the Observatory I took a 1/2 bottle of red out the back door of my condo onto the second hole of the golf couse and lit up a cigar. Laid back on the tee-box and looked at the Stars. Woke up about 2 a.m. I feel asleep on the golf course!

In the top 5 of places I have been

Highlight of my trip by far, might even be in the top 5 of all places I have been. I knew I wanted to to see this observatory but I had no idea how much I would like it. The pictures don't do it justice. To start the story from the beginning, I tried to book a tour to the top of Mauna Kea but they were all booked, I was on waiting lists but never got a call that I could go. My last night here I just decided to drive up to the visitors center and see what was going on, maybe I could latch on to van or se if I could get up to the top or at least 1/2 way. Everyone had been telling me you had to have a 4X4 to go to the Observatory. Well, I went to the visitor center and I did not see anything that said you can't go, just signs that said "We Strongly recommend, you have a 4X4 truck to go to the summit." So I drove my Nissan coupe on up to the summit. I was the only car at the top.(got some funny looks) 14,000 feet in a Nissan! I'm sure there are times when you have to have a 4X4 but there was no snow and the roads were pretty good so I just pushed it on up to the top. So glad I did this! Anyone who comes to the Big Island this is a MUST DO! After the sun went down it got even better. The stars were so big and seemed to be reachable. None of the pictures after dark turned out .Believe me the best stars I have ever seen up to now have been in the Boundry Waters, the stars at Mauna Kea make those look silly. I thought I could grab the Big Dipper by the handle. I saw a shooting star and thought I should duck.

Pool Day

Today is Pool Day, at the pool off and on. The Russians have moved in. One Blondie one Brown and one Black haired. They tend to be very carefree upon ajusting their tops while sunning. You don't really think of Russian as a sexy language but today it seems to be! I'm kinsa worried about the blonde, she has been on her stomach a little to long and her butt cheeks are getting red. Where is my loation?

Observitory tonight!!

Golf Day

Today was golf day, I have been looking forward to this all week. The course is awesome and today other then the wind it was a great day. On some of the holes you can see Maui in the backround and other holes you see Mauna Kea in the backround. Shot in the dark I asked if they offered a United Airlines discount and they did! saved me $50.00

Kilauea

This was kinda funny, I asked this lady who about 60 to take my picture. After 3 pictures of her thumb and telling her husband that "the way they make camera's nowdays is backwards" I don't think she could see the LCD screen in the sunlight? Anyway, her husband took the camera snapped the picture and the "camera seems fine to me! lets go Doris"

Kilauea is awesome, one of the reasons I came to the Big Island was to see this. *** Click on the picture of the Steam through the trees on the left and you can learn more about Kilauea. ***

*** Then look below and check out my short Video of the Steam vent. ***

*** Golf today at 1500 then maybe Mauna Kea Observatories, i'm on a waiting list for the next two nights. ***

Volcano

WOW, I loved it!