>>Just got here the first of September.....
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>Permanent move or temporary?
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>It's been about 10 or 11 years since I've been to Hawaii, but my favorite island has always been Kauai ... not quite as crowded as Oahu or Maui. Not yet anyway. <g>
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>Doesn't matter ... it's all a beach. =0)
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My honeymoon was in Hawaii, including three days on Kauai. Also three days on the big island. On both of them the old, unspoiled Hawaii was still alive. Bliss. We spent one entire day hiking the trail on the Ne Pali (sp.?) coast. My feet are still sore ;-) But it was gorgeous. It was a week day and we didn't see any other people the whole day. Just two newlyweds in paradise.

One of the last times I heard from our old pal Tom Piper was from Hawaii. You probably know he went there every year and stayed at the Royal Hawaiian. (When he found out Tricia and I stayed there the first two nights of our honeymoon he sent us both T shirts. A very generous man). He had his eye on two young women who were staying there and had talked with him the night before. They were Australians in their late 20s. Unsurprisingly, the one he was zeroing in on was the younger of the two ;-) He thought he had a good shot that night.