Hawaiian Islands Tour – Maui

July 3, 2009 Maui Curmudgeon Comments Off

Come On & Join Us - Maui
By Maui Curmudgeon

This is the 6th in a 7-part series of Maui Curmudgeon’s Hawaiian Islands Tour.

We live here, so yeah, we still like it. Most tourists go to the west side with Lahaina, or the south side, like Kihei and Wailea. Most of us residents have simply given up on the west and south.

Kihei looks like the ass-end of a Pittsburgh suburb on a bad day. Lahaina is choked with traffic which, frankly, tourists deserve if they are going to stay there. And yeah, developers have pretty much paved whole square miles of the place, but then, they are evil and will spend an eternity burning in hell anyway so we look forward to that on their behalf.

Maui is still worth it though. But unlike the previous island pieces we’re going to describe things a little differently here.

Five things you’ll likely do on Maui you shouldn’t:
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First Friday in Wailuku

July 3, 2009 > MAUI TODAY Comments Off
Aloha

Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastDisobedience Day
Day 184 of 2009
181 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoa paio: Adversary
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Poro: Friend
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The mouths of people make noise like mud crabs.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” (Frederich Niezsche)

July 3, 1919: The first copies of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper are delivered by airmail to Maui. No one wanted to read it then, either.

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