04-03-2007, 07:58 PM
Edited by - outsideobserver on 04/03/2007 08:54:46
Got anymore "aloha" advice or info? You appear to be an expert in aloha, and I'm thirsty for knowledge.
No amount of warm reception is a substitute for actions and equipment which potentially place human life in peril. While we're on this note of "aloha", did you all get to go view the lava "gratis", or did you fork out the $150 "kama'aina" rate? The competitor you think I am shilling for has a more seaworthy 28" foot vessel of recent construction specifically purchased and outfitted for these excursions, no doubt at great expense to himself, and his price is $125. It's on his website. How's that for the "Kama'aina" rate?
Now who's really extending "Aloha?" and who's just going "ka ching!"
For the record, this is the end of the line for me with this forum. Life is too busy for me right now to keep this up, and while the ocean is sweet, Jersey is not the greatest place in the world. It's full of people from New Jersey. Why do you think I left here over twenty years ago and started traveling and living all over? How hilarious that you all think I'm somehow deluded with myself- everybody is absolutely full of it to an extent, and I'm no exception. I do have to give Puna it's props however, at least you uphold the First Amendment here. It seems there are places on other boards where people who live in places like Oahu will gang up and flag any post which disagrees with their political ideology or Disney-Like image of Hawaii they want to portray to themselves and the world. That is very dangerous. Another reason why I chose the Big Island for my virst visit- I'm not even changing planes in HNL, coming straight to KOA.
So, peace out peeps, and while you're all living there in your quest to make a paradise for yourselves, don't forget that you came from somewhere else first, you're still visitors to someone else's backyard.
Edited by - outsideobserver on 04/04/2007 00:00:09
Edited by - outsideobserver on 04/04/2007 00:20:58