More Background

My one and only trip to Hawaii was a memorable one. My daughter got married on the beach on the island of Maui. Of course I was skeptical about the long plane ride and all that water. But we managed to get there and back safely as thousands do every day. It all started with a  limousine ride to O'Hare airport for 6 (my wife and daughter, future son in-law his mother and aunt and me), plus luggage. Chicago to San Francisco was uneventful, but the fun started while changing planes in California. Our new plane had mechanical problems. So a planned layover of 90 minutes turned into 4 hours of wandering around a boring airport. Our second new plane finally arrived and we landed in Honolulu about 1am local time to a deserted airport and a too small minivan ride to our hotel.

Our flight the next day from Oahu to Maui was not till late afternoon, so we had time to do a couple  of tourist things like the Pearl Harbor Memorial. I am even more impressed now (after 9-11) looking at our photos with the history of that place.

 Our accommodations on Maui were very nice. The newlyweds had an apartment above the owners house and the rest of us shared a 2 bedroom cottage on the back of the property. We had a nice sized swimming pool and a cookout hut, all with a view of the ocean (3 miles away) and the volcano when not hidden in the clouds.

Link to location of Honeymoon Villa