Sunday, January 4, 2009

Hawaii - Shedding Pounds & Off to the Next Island (27 DEC 2008)

Aloha!

After a long night of digitizing and then shredding documents (Camilla slept a total of 3 hours while Steve got about 5)we headed off to the local post office with a few pounds of clothing not really needed at these latitudes. Thank goodness for flat-rate USPS boxes when you're in a place like Hawaii. We sent off three to our California Connection on this morning at the lovely local aloha-filled post office - they even hand out candy canes for Santa!!

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'Shedding More (Baggage) Pounds':



Later in the day, we packed up our remaining stuff plus about 100lbs of basic provisions to partially sustain us over in Moloka'i - our home for the next month and change.
We bid our farewell to the beloved red Ford Mustang, paid the baggage overcharge (which still justifies schlepping 100lbs of provisions), and hopped a quick flight to the Friendly Isle of Independence next door.

'Flying to the Friendly Isle of Independence':



E komo mai (welcome) to low-key ohana-style living with plenty of aloha:



A hui hou!
Tetefano and Camilla

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