Feb 19, 2025
We were up at 4:30 AM to get ready for our 8:40 AM flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Maui (OGG) on United and then continue on Hawaiian Airlines to Lihue (LIH) in Kauai. As much as I like avoiding the traffic into LAX, I find that when I get up that early, I spend most of the day feeling exhausted and I have been able to sleep well on an airplane.
As we boarded our flight, the flight attendants were all wearing fake leis and flowers. It reminded me of my first flight to Hawaii, at least they aren’t weraing polyester muumuus like they used to. Early in my career, I was assigned a six week project in Hawaii and every week, I went from Kaui to Maui and then back to Kaui again. I felt very fortunate to have been put on that project, I could have just as easily been assigned a project in Chicago during the middle of winter.
When my parents retired, I cashed in my miles to get them tickets to Hawaii and I went along with them. We stopped in Oahue and then headed to Kauai. It was a special trip and Kauai will always be my favorite Island and now that I am older, I don’t mind that everything closes at 8:00 PM and there isn’t a night life. I was looking forward to driving around the island and appreciating the beauty.
When we arrived in Maui, my first thought was that this airport looks the same as it did the first time I flew to Maui and when we landed in Kauai, I had the same thought. As we drove up to the hotel, I relized that we had stayed at this Sheraton hotel about five years before. As we checked in, I asked and they said that they were a Marriott Courtyard and a few years back, they rebranded the hotel as a Sheraton resort. I am not sure I would call it a resort but it was located in Lihue where I wanted to spend a few days before going on to Princeville.
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