12-13-2014, 12:47 PM
Kathy -
Thanks for your recent posts.
A balanced approach is helpful all around.
Before the internet, before Tripadvisor, when I first moved to Maui I disembarked from the plane, picked up a rental car, and hit the road. First stop, groceries. I saw a couple of local guys standing around and asked them if they knew of a grocery store that also sold beer (some states don't allow sales of both). They said, "yeah brah, Food Lawn!" I said "Food Lawn?" "Yeah, they got everything."
I wrote down the directions, and was excited that I was REALLY in the tropics now, a place with a climate so perfect groceries and beer could be sold outside in a park like setting, maybe even with hula girls for checkout clerks. No more snow and ice, or thunderstorms with tornadoes for this dude.
When I arrived, needless to say I was sorely disappointed. There was no Food Lawn, just a Foodland in a pole building with a big parking lot like anywhere else in America. Had Tripadvisor existed in those days, it would have saved me my first shattered dream, only an hour after landing in beautiful Hawaii. But the beer was good and frosty, and that was the one last place where I could do with some ice cold conditions. So I got over my disappointment, and not too much later shared dinner and those chilled beers with a friend, where we talked late into the night about old times and new adventures to come.
Thanks for your recent posts.
A balanced approach is helpful all around.
Before the internet, before Tripadvisor, when I first moved to Maui I disembarked from the plane, picked up a rental car, and hit the road. First stop, groceries. I saw a couple of local guys standing around and asked them if they knew of a grocery store that also sold beer (some states don't allow sales of both). They said, "yeah brah, Food Lawn!" I said "Food Lawn?" "Yeah, they got everything."
I wrote down the directions, and was excited that I was REALLY in the tropics now, a place with a climate so perfect groceries and beer could be sold outside in a park like setting, maybe even with hula girls for checkout clerks. No more snow and ice, or thunderstorms with tornadoes for this dude.
When I arrived, needless to say I was sorely disappointed. There was no Food Lawn, just a Foodland in a pole building with a big parking lot like anywhere else in America. Had Tripadvisor existed in those days, it would have saved me my first shattered dream, only an hour after landing in beautiful Hawaii. But the beer was good and frosty, and that was the one last place where I could do with some ice cold conditions. So I got over my disappointment, and not too much later shared dinner and those chilled beers with a friend, where we talked late into the night about old times and new adventures to come.
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves