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Back on the road… FINALLY after a 4 hour delay at IAD… But I’d rather have the pressurization problem fixed BEFORE we took off…

Just sayin…

So 10 hours (+4 delay) later, get to HNL, and the timing is ‘perfect’…

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Right in the middle of @#^%^#$ rush hour… An hour to go SEVEN *&^%$ miles…

And a rhetorical question… WHY would anybody want a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S in Hawaii? There isn’t a single road on the island where you could get it out of second gear!

Sigh…

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Light posting and commenting… — 23 Comments

  1. Yes. Imagine my frustration as a 16 year old learning to drive in Hawaii and not being able to go faster than 45 mph. Did you see any 400 lb Samoans on a “Nifty, thrifty, Honda 50”?

  2. Well, for starters, a 911 is a work of art. 🙂 I’m fairly confident that I couldn’t comfortably drive one, but if I ever hit the powerball, I’m buying one to put next to a Maserati Quadraporte in the museum wing of the garage……

    Some collect paintings; I’d collect cars, guns and other fun stuff…

    • If I had the money, I would buy a 911 Carrera 4S even if I couldn’t drive it. Hell, even if I could only LOOK at it.

      I remember the first time I saw a 911, way back in 1966 – I thought it was sex on wheels then, and they have only got better as the years have passed.

  3. Well, because they are cool! I could never live in Hawaii if you can’t go fast. Hey…they do on Hawaii-50. Are you telling me that is all staged?

    I can’t believe you are complaining about being in Hawaii. For shame. LOL

  4. I guess you will be gone by then, but me and the family will be in Honolulu in a little over a week. After a couple of days, it’s over to Maui. Come on back and I’ll buy you some coconut milk or what ever.

  5. Oh, cry me a river – you could be stuck in traffic in Detroit.

    When you retire, you’re gonna miss drinking rum concoctions out of pineapples and the girls in grass skirts who wait for you to get off the plane so they can put a lei around your neck. Besides, do you have any idea how expensive macadamia nuts are in the lower 48 states???

    • Traffic was unaccountably heavy in Eaton Rapids today. I went for a 30 minute run and saw 6 vehicles.

      Probably related to Jade Helm.

  6. PE- Oh yeah, they’re around… Pretty much ‘around the bike, since they are bigger than it is…

    Nik- I can see that, but slogging in 10mph traffic???

    Fargo- For a whole 2 days… sigh

    LL- Couldn’t get in, stuck downtown.

    gfa- Tryin my friend, tryin…

    CP- Enjoy, if you can it is nut to butt pretty much everywhere on Oahu… Sigh.

    Mrs.C- LOL, supposedly the grass skirts are itchy, and I don’t like macadamia nuts, so I don’t buy em… 🙂

  7. That picture looks familiar; pretty much like every trip from the airport to the hotel, since we always land approx. 6 pm.

    And the mai tais are waiting…

  8. It is all a plot by the Chamber of Commerce. They want you to have ample time to look at all the shops. They probably have all the traffic lights rigged to produce the same outcome.

  9. Why anybody even goes to Honolulu is a mystery to me, might as well go to Burbank or Sunnyvale. I’d much rather be on the Big Island myself.

  10. Had neighbors who remember Pearl in pre-December 7th days.
    It really was a paradise back then.

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  12. I retired to a place where traffic is not an issue. That said, I think I’d prefer being stuck for an hour in traffic in Honolulu over an hour in northern Virginia.

  13. As one that lived(thankfully I am away from that traffic jam(i only miss the weather)) in Hawaii, and on that island as a fact, near Schofield Brks(thank God). Every time I went to Honolulu(like the three required trips to register a new pistol(yes every damn time)), it was always rush hour. Thats why its oddly faster to take the H3 and go past MCBH to get to that side of Honolulu vs driving right on in on H1 or heaven forbid the surface streets.

  14. Rev- It should be, and no mai tais this trip… sigh

    WSF- That and WAY too many cars…

    NC- True, but when work is on Oahu, I have no choice.

    Stretch- They would not even recognize it today…

    Keads- Thanks!

    Ttl- Good point!

    Rick- I wish…

    Daga- Yep, stationed at NASBPT back in the 70s, we tried our damnest to stay OUT of Honolulu!

  15. But that Magnum guy had a Ferrari and he was always racing it everywhere. He never hit traffic. Maybe you should have done whatever it was that he did.

    And you’re missing mid-90’s with humidity off the charts, so from those of us here to those of you there…Pbbbttttt!

  16. I just retired out of Honolulu after 14 years there. I got know a couple people that had really high-end, expensive, fast cars. One of them let me drive his supercar (shouldn’t mention which kind, I doubt there are more than 3 or 4 in the state) from Barber’s Point over to Kaneohe. He said, “You know how to drive a nice car, put some gas to this thing. They all know who I am, it’ll be fine.”

    So naturally we got stopped. The police officer apologized to the owner and said, “Sorry brah, we saw it wasn’t you in the driver’s seat so we didn’t know what was going on. It’s all good.” I guess if you’re there long enough, you can get away with things that other people can’t.

    It also helps to be an open handed friend of SHOPO.