I am writing today from Maui, which makes a convenient (and warm) stopover on the way back home. We left Fiji Sunday evening and, thanks to the international dateline, arrived in Hawaii Sunday morning. Apparently time travel isn't so difficult afterall. What is difficult is sleeping on airplanes. We must have managed to doze some since the red-eye flight went fairly fast for us, but we both felt foggy for the rest of the day. We are staying in Kihei in a very nice oceanfront hotel with a comfy bed, air conditioning, and television, none of which we've had for the last four and a half months in Fiji. So for us this is luxury.
We've spent some time on the beach, of course, but sometimes Deborah is just as happy to stay in the room and catch up on her Home and Garden Television. We did manage to visit the excellent Maui Ocean Center (aquarium) and also the town of Lahaina, which features many galleries showing mostly bad tourist art. Yesterday we took a long walk on the beach down to Wailea and strolled through some of the fancy hotels we couldn't possibly afford. They were shooting a movie on the beach in front of one of them and Deborah spotted Jennifer Aniston walking through the lobby. I looked up too late and only saw the back of her; however I can verify that it did indeed look like Jennifer Aniston's butt.
Maui lacks the exoticism of Fiji - in fact much of the developed west side looks like tidy but generic strip mall America, albeit with palm trees. Still, there is certainly something to be said for paved roads and level sidewalks. I'd like to see more of the wild areas of this island, but without a rental car or the inclination at the end of a months-long trip to spend large amounts of money on the many typical tourist activities, that will have to wait until our next visit.
Next up, in what will most likely be the last blog entry, I'll list our tip 5 likes and dislikes for Fiji.
Our regular taxi driver Ali gives us our last ride to the airport in Savusavu
Simoke (not smiling for photographs as usual) sees us off at the airport
Deborah uses elastic bandages as improvised compression stockings to combat thrombosis (they worked)
Our 19 seater that took us from Savusavu to the internation airport in Nadi, Fiji
Yellow Tang at the Maui Aquarium
Camoflage anyone?
Tulip or Jellyfish?
Beach between Kihei and Wailea
Whale season is just ending
The guy in the red trunks jumps on one end of the protruding part of the raft to send a kid at the other end flying.
Jennifer Aniston at the Four Seasons (or possibly Deborah)
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