Chris Moss Online

James and I were in Hawaii for 10 days with my parents from May 17 through May 26. We visited Oahu, Kauai and Maui for 3 days each, with an extra day in Maui. This entry is sort of an overview of the whole trip and my thoughts on Hawaii – particularly as it compares to other places that I have visited. Later on, I will post more details about exactly what we did on each of the islands (which will be more of a travelogue/journal entry for myself). I love going back through these posts and reading the details of what I did on various trips.

The trip overall was fantastic. We had a great time and everything went off very smoothly. Only James had ever been to Hawaii at all before, and I knew basically nothing of the geography of Hawaii other than that Honolulu was on the island of Oahu. We had put quite a lot of effort into researching what we wanted to do and see, and planning the logistics of our trip. We were very pleased that the execution went off without a hitch. I don’t think we could second-guess any of the decisions we made about which islands to visit and for how long, and in which areas of each island to stay. However, having visited and stayed there, I would probably choose slightly different locations to stay (for a variety of reasons).

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So today is Day 10, the last day of our trip to Hawaii and our return-travel day. Our flight isn’t until 5pm local time, arriving at 5am Dallas time.

We are exhausted but very satisfied. There are a number of blog posts in draft stage but will not be finalized until later. Between the two of us, James and I have taken approximately 1,500 photos. We haven’t had a chance to select the very best and edit them for proper consumption, but some of the ones that stick out so far are posted on our Flickr pages:

Chris’s Flickr page

James’s Flickr page

So my family is on vacation in Hawaii. My dad lost some prescription medicine, which he originally had filled at the Wal-Mart back home in Gilmer, TX. He called the local Wal-Mart here on Kauai, and asked if they could refill it for him. They could, they said. Good. But, they needed HIM to provide them with the phone number to the Wal-Mart in Gilmer. What kind of bizarre world is it that Wal-Mart employees live in when they even think that way?

Willie Nelson turns 75.

Happy birthday to a true living legend and Texas icon.

My favorite factoid about Willie Nelson:

“No stranger to controversy, he released the Tex-Mex style “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other,” a song about gay cowboys, as a digital single through the iTunes Music Store on Valentine’s Day 2006, shortly after the release of the film Brokeback Mountain (which also featured Nelson on the soundtrack). He deadpans his way through the song, with such phrases as “What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?””