The impending vacation

I'm off to Maui in a couple of days, for a week. It's not a job. It's an actual vacation, with Robin. She just concluded writing her latest book, “The Trauma Treatment Handbook,” and her due is that she gets to go to a warm, sunny place. Where she can snorkel. 

I'm coming along as the mate, even though warmth and sun in a destination are qualities I try to avoid if possible. I find the sun mostly an annoyance and an irritant. Back when I was travelling  on my own, it was to Ireland in January. If I knew of a location in the continental US cloudier than where I live now, I would probably move there. 

Nonetheless, I'm making a vacation out of it. Maui looks pretty cool in the guidebooks, if one stays out of the resorts. In consolation, I was able to book three nights in Hana, on the wet side of the island. 

One of the ways I'm making this a real vacation is that I'm not taking a computer. I lose hours at night when I travel to processing photos. I'll travel with my entire stash of CF cards instead, and just store them up. The biggest impact will be a hiatus on the Daily Photo updates. I'll keep up on email on the iPhone, so this isn't a total digital-free interval. But I spend too much of my life at a screen, and I look forward to a break.

Robin hasn't decided yet whether to go computer-free or not. She has an incipient Facebook addiction brewing, and is torn. If she brings hers, we won't fight over iPhone access. But I might end up as the abandoned spouse, instead of the other way around. 

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Comments

[Eric Jeschke]

Great! Looking forward to seeing some Hawaii images on the blog. But be forewarned, Maui is pretty touristy--the Hana side will be better. If you get a chance sometime, visit the east side of the Big Island!

[Doug Plummer]

That has been my fear. We actually wanted to go to the Big Island, but there was not a rental car to be had for our stay.

[David Adam Edelstein]

There's plenty of solitary beauty on Maui, don't worry. Most of the tourists stay in the big tourist areas. If you go for some hikes you'll probably be alone on the trails.

And have fun! Don't let the sun oppress you too much :-)