Despite our best efforts to goof it up . . .

. . . we made it to Maui. We left late for the airport, didn't allow enough time for traffic, and stopped at Starbucks anyway. The killer, though, was that United Airlines has a separate, long, slow-moving, line for those unlucky saps with paper tickets. "Paper?!?", you ask. "When did you buy the tickets? 1982?" No. We bought the tickets after Aloha Airlines took our money and declared bankruptcy! In the aloha Aloha Airlines rush, all we could get was a 2-stop, multiple airline, fare. And airlines that don't play nice together still issue paper tickets for multi-airline trips. The paper line alone took 60 minutes and it we weren't even close.

Good thing that Luella had the grace to ask Fr. O'Gorman for a blessing before leaving. Because United was able to book us on a direct flight to Maui that arrived more or less at the same time as our original flight. Whew!

So we're here. Condo is nice. Instead of a weather update I will tell you about WiFi coverage - Not too expensive $40/week but they've clearly limited upload speed. Essentially, you can read your email but not reply easily. Ah, the trials of 2008, can't really disconnect, vacationer.

More posts to follow. Aloha. Luis