| Page Views: 1,143 Last Visit to Honolulu: - | City of Aloha by Rixie - last update: Jun 7, 2006 |
| Waikiki Beach, with Diamond Head in the distance |
Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, is the capital city of the only state in the US that was once a monarchy. There's always something interesting or exciting to do there.
Tour the royal palace and follow in the footsteps of kings and queens, or see their belongings on exhibit at the Bishop Museum. Make a pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor, where the USS Arizona still lies underwater. Lie on a warm, sandy beach, take surfing lessons, hand-feed fish. Go shopping for aloha shirts or shell necklaces, watch a hula show or listen to a concert of Hawaiian music. Inhale the perfume of tropical flowers, eat ono (Hawaiian for delicious) ethnic foods, experience the spirit of aloha. The worst part of your trip will be going to the airport for your flight home! |
Quick explanation This page will not include many photos. When I go to Honolulu, I spend my time visiting family and friends and tend to take photos of them, not of the places where we meet. But my friend Jan, who recently researched a trip to Portland on VT, has persuaded me that information is just as valuable without photos. |
Personal Aloha Oe Leaving Honolulu is always very emotional for me. I feel like Emily in Our Town, bidding farewell to Grover’s Corners.
My version would run along these lines:
Goodbye, trees
- palm, monkeypod, banyan, and mango
Goodbye, flowers
– hibiscus, plumeria, bird of paradise, and vanda orchid
Goodbye, sea and sky
and rainbows and carved green mountains
Goodbye, muumuus and aloha shirts,
and slippers on the doormat
Goodbye, laulau and poi,
saimin and sushi
Goodbye, red dirt and lava rock walls
Goodbye, da kine steel guitar and slack key, yeah?
Goodbye, bones of my ancestors
and strength of my ohana
Goodbye, land of mahalo and aloha –
until we meet again. |
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| Pros: | "Sunshine, good food, much aloha" | | Cons: | "Crowded highways" | | In A Nutshell: | "It really is the Paradise of the Pacific" |
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 Comments for Rixie about Honolulu | | | | |
terible22 Thu Nov 6, 2008 01:56 UTC
Wow, What a Beautiful place. My brother often visits the Big Island. Maybe one of these days I will find the time to go also. | moiraistyx Wed Aug 6, 2008 13:09 UTC
I really enjoyed reading your pages, that maze sounds like lots of fun, I'm like you though. I would have to tie a string somewhere to find my way back | Hexepatty Sun Mar 19, 2006 20:48 UTC
Fun to read your "leaving Honolulu Emotions"... I feel you, sistah! I can't wait to meet you in Baltimore! Hugs... |
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