Once again I will be leaving my comfortable home and the
things I know for parts unknown.
Well, not really parts unknown, it isn’t as if I will be
taking a three month trip on a tramp steamer across the ocean and arriving in
some place back of beyond without any modern conveniences or the simple ability
to speak my language. I will be travelling across the ocean but in considerably
less than three months. I walk into a building in Calgary
and the next time I breathe unconditioned air I will be in the middle of the Pacific
Ocean . The air will smell moist and have a fragrance culled from
millions of tropical flowers.
There will be an expectation of good things to come. Well,
on my side of the terminal, on the other side there will be people filled with
warm memories who are reluctantly leaving paradise to go back to their lives on
the other side of the world. My first concern is to get our luggage and find
the way to the car rental company before the throngs of others get there. I
have never been the first, but I suppose there is a first for everything.
The condo we will be staying at is on the opposite side of
the island from the airport and will take about 15 minutes to get to. First
however, like that person on the tramp steamer we will need to find provisions.
Luckily for me there is a Costco not too far away and I am sure they will have
all the necessities of life. Bread, vegetables, fruit, meat, P.O.G. and toilet
paper spring to mind.
Do you know P.O.G.? It was created in 1971 by Mary Soon who
was/is a food product consultant from the juice of passion fruit, orange and
guava. It is produced by Meadow Gold Dairy may their bottom line keep on the
upward slope. Louise and I will refresh ourselves in a healthy somewhat
addictive way. There will also be Hawaiian Sea Salt chips which I have a
particular fondness for. This year I promise to be strong and resist the pull
as I have a wedding to attend in May and I must look my best. I will have to
walk down the aisle, not roll. Did I mention the box of Mauna Loa
macadamia nuts covered in milk chocolate that will be on the counter of our
condo when we check in?
Ahhhh…Paradise !
I look forward to the short walk down the beach to get a
shave ice from Ululani’s just across the road from the Kihei canoe club. I’m
not going to lose weight am I?
Maybe if I spend enough time in the water and walking along
the beach I can find a balance of sorts. Maybe…
Well, maholo and aloha.
I hope you don't get bumped from your flight and then dragged off the plane!
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