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Aloha ‘oe… farewell to thee. Today is my final day on the islands of Paradise and I thought I would leave you with the translated lyrics to a song, written by Queen Lili’uokalani, the last queen of the Hawaiian Islands. She dedicated this song as her farewell to her beloved country upon her removal from [...]

The other night, I went out to dinner at a local Bar & Grille here on O’ahu and on the TV, everyone was watching women’s professional log rolling. First of all, I didn’t know there was such a thing. Second of all, why are Hawai’ians interested in log rolling? I will admit, it’s quite entertaining, [...]

Right now, it’s mid-afternoon in Atlanta… but here, in Hawai’i, the morning is just getting started. Last night, I crashed early, slept hard through the night and woke up to a beautiful sunrise. Here I sit, eating my breakfast, looking out the window of my 20th floor flat (picture is from the window), watching the [...]

This picture is from my last visit, back in February of 2005, to Honolulu. I’m on another business trip to Honolulu. I arrived last night, after riding a direct flight from Atlanta to Honolulu. Almost ten hours on a plane isn’t necessairly my idea of a good time, but fortunately, I got bumped up to [...]

After reading about GFF running out of gas in the ghetto, it reminded me of a great road warrior story to share with all of you.

As they say, everything is big in Texas. I had a total geek moment today as I stepped into the Fry’s Electronics store in Plano, Texas. Picture a Super Wal-Mart, multiply by two and you have a Fry’s store… and it’s all electronics and accessories. This place is a total computer geek heaven. There were [...]

Several years ago, Dr. Pepper was my favorite drink. I drank it or nothing everywhere I went. But several months ago, Coke changed the formula for Mr. Pibb and changed the name to Pibb Extra. Now more and more restaurants in the south are carrying Pibb Extra instead of Dr. Pepper. Personally, I don’t like [...]

The people who designed the roads in Texas must have been smoking some primo weed when they put pen to paper, because I can’t figure out where the hell I’m going most of the time. The biggest pain in the ass is the “access road” that runs parallel to the highways (which they call “freeways” [...]