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<\/a>This picture is from my 2017 trip to My Fifieth: Hawaii<\/a>. I had to fly there, of course, and I also did some flying between islands while there. On my seventieth birthday, I did some flying in a helicopter over volcanos on the Big Island which is when the picture at right was taken. Oahu and Maui were the other islands visited. On Oahu, I made it to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, climbed Diamond Head, and strolled on Waikiki Beach. I did enough driving, including Maui’s Road to Hana, to allow me to call this a road trip of sorts. I watched surfers but had enough sense not to try it myself. In fact, I did nothing on top of the water but did go 111 feet beneath it in a submersible with plenty of windows. I ate SPAM at McDonald’s, Fleetwood’s mac & cheese at Mick’s place, one Mix Plate, one Loco Moco, and quite a few macadamia nut pancakes. I made it to within 300 feet of the southernmost point in the USA, had a couple of brews at the country’s southernmost brewery (Kona), and a few more at breweries that were pretty far south. Every state in the union is unique but this place just might be uniquer than most.<\/p>\nAs the trip’s title indicates, Hawaii was the fiftieth state I’d visited. The trip cleared the way for me to publish 50 @ 70<\/a> which includes some coverage of trips that took me to the final sixteen of that fifty. Not too surprisingly, Hawaii and Alaska (my 49th) get the most attention.<\/p>\n Trip Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo plus links to the full-sized photo and the associated trip journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This picture is from my 2017 trip to My Fifieth: Hawaii. I had to fly there, of course, and I also did some flying between islands while there. On my seventieth birthday, I did some flying in a helicopter over … Continue reading
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