Be Still and Know...Then and Now

I need to back up a bit and return to the Big Island for just a moment because a funny thing happen on the way to the crater. Did y’all know that Diamond Head was a crater? Cause I didn’t, but I’ll get to that in a minute I need to set the stage a bit. One of the things I find most disturbing about the aging process is that it has a mind of it's own and at any given moment can rear it’s ugly head and cause an unpleasant or painful situation. It was several weeks ago when I had gone over to pick up Muffinhead. I took a nose dive, being the ever graceful person that I am, and landed right smack dab on my right knee ! Yea for me. Well it had nearly recovered, almost. I was just about getting to the point of being able to get down on my hands and knees without experiencing any pain but it was slow going. Well when we were at the Volcano National Park I had not anticipated exactly just how much walking would be involved. There was a LOT of walking. We ended up staying for the entire ...

Our second stop in our south pacific vacation was the island of Oahu. From the Big Island it was a very short 42 minute flight and we landed on Oahu. It was very different from the Big Island. Very metropolitan and was by far the most commercial of the places we had been so far. Our hotel was smack dab in the middle of the high end shopping district. So if I was a rich person I could have purchased a Gucci bag, some Prada shoes or a Ferrari, but I restrained myself. We enjoyed out time on Oahu, we did not however enjoy our time at the Holiday Inn Waikiki Beachcomber Resort. First of all let me state for the record that one should only use the name Beachcomber if in fact you are actually on the beach and there is some actual beach property that can be combed involved in your stay. Wanna see our ocean view? Wanna see the view from our balcony? We could see the pool from our room. Why anyone would want to sit buy the pool and listen the the ambulances drive by, the busses, th...