One day I'll have to go to Kaaawa and take pics there but that probably wont happen until I have visitors from the mainland. Isn't that how it always is?? Never get out enough until someone visits. I like the illusion everyone gets when they visit us because they think we have fun EVERY week and a party every weekend!
Oh, you should!! Across the street from the elementary school is a beautiful beach park...or at least, it was there years and years ago. Also, the beaches along that stretch of the Kamehameha Highway are gorgeous, very rocky, and they used to be pretty uninhabited. Of course, all that could have changed tremendously since I was there.
LOLOL...visitors do have that effect. :) I have friends who say to me "you live in California! It must be so great to go to the beach every day." I just shake my head; if I didn't have to go to work, it certainly would be! Life is just life anywhere, isn't it? Though it can be a lot more beautiful and enjoyable in some places than in others.
I wanted to ask, too, where that pagoda is. My memory of those days is fuzzy, but I think I've seen it. Is it anywhere near Ala Moana Center?
I love driving on that side of that island. I sent thefaeriegirl a dvd with some video clips I took last year. I don't remember if it was taken around Kaaawa but it was near there I'm sure. I know the school and the beach park you're talking about but the only time I stopped there was to fix the windshield wiper. I don't think it has changed much over there. When was the last time you've been here?
The pagoda is in Nuuanu like when you're heading into town from the Pali Lookout. There's this scenic lookout you can pull into so I'm sure there's like a million photos by other tourists that look exactly like mine. Basically it's closer to downtown than Ala Moana.
Ohhh there were some sorta creepy moments while I was hiking there. It could've been scary if I let my imagination get to me but I was being sensible like the Ghost Hunters
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That's what I loved about Hawaii when I was a kid. There were so many fun places to explore! I first lived here from '82-'88 on Wheeler Air Force Base (now an army base blah!) and I loved it there. We used to go exploring there all the time and I think us kids knew the land around the base better than any of the military guys. Like if anybody wanted to get on the base without being spotted we'd know how. We even found some old bunkers that haven't been used in years but we were afraid to go in because we thought it might be full of grenades and explosives. Okay we weren't really afraid. The locks they used were just way to hard to open! Fun days!
I'm in Honolulu pretty much. Near Salt Lake. Which isn't far from the airport and a few miles away from the stadium. Did you ever go to Castle Park?? That's been long gone but I still remember having fun there. I've been to Ala Moana maybe three times since moving back here in 2001... I think Liberty House was just closing when I moved here. JC Penney is gone too.
OHMYDOG! I almost drowned at Castle Park!! I went only one time for a birthday party, right when it first opened. I was seven or eight-ish and on the lazy river, and I fell out of my inner tube. It was packed with people, like...literally shoulder to shoulder, tube to tube, and I got caught under the water. It was really shallow, but everyone sitting in their tubes was on top of me. I managed to get my hand through, and a woman pulled me up just before I passed out. It was totally scary. My mom wasn't there and only heard about it after I got home. She never let me go back, and no doubt, I never wanted to. :o
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I think drownings was one of the main reasons Castle Park closed. I remember my school used to have field trips there for the older kids but the year my class was supposed to go they canceled those type of field trips because of a student drowning one year. I never really went in the water there anyway because I didn't know how to swim
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Wow...the monorail is still there! That's so great. :)
"A dime for the monorail back then huh? My parents lied back then! I always wanted to ride the monorail whenever we went there but my parents said it was too expensive!"
HAHAHAHA!! Too funny. The things parents come up with. Yes, it was only dime. I remember because I'd collect dimes and then try to convince my aunt to take me on the weekends. She didn't give in very often. It might've been a dime each way, though; that I don't remember.
"Easiest to remember Wahiawa as the small town in the middle of the island on the way to the North Shore."On the way to the North Shore going the other way, right? Not the Kaaawa/Kahuku side. I don't recognize that town's name. I never went all the way around that side, though, I don't think. The farthest we'd go was to Haleiwa to the shave ice place, which I've heard is still there and is famous now, apparently. My mother used to take me to get shave ice, and then we'd go to the Bonsai Pipeline to watch the waves. Back then, there were only a
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Ohhh Matsumoto's Shave Ice. That place is famous now and it's crazy how long the lines can get sometimes. I haven't been there since I was a kid because the line's just too long whenever we go. Maybe when friends or relatives visit I'll go again. There's also a famous shrimp wagon on the north shore. Everyone I know loves it. Except for me 'cause I don't eat shrimp. And my dad too because he's allergic to it. That's one of the stops my sister always goes to whenever she visits. It's an ugly lunch wagon with names and graffiti scribbled all over it. People always sign their names on it including some famous people. I put a "W" on it somewhere. I'm terrible! I felt like it was wrong and that I was vandalizing the truck but they encourage it! Sooo all I have is a tiny little "W" on the backside somewhere that's probably lost among all the other names. Next time I'll make a big fancy "W" and everyone will look at it and say "oh my! That's THE W. I wish I could get his autograph!"
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I love the pagoda. :)
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LOLOL...visitors do have that effect. :) I have friends who say to me "you live in California! It must be so great to go to the beach every day." I just shake my head; if I didn't have to go to work, it certainly would be! Life is just life anywhere, isn't it? Though it can be a lot more beautiful and enjoyable in some places than in others.
I wanted to ask, too, where that pagoda is. My memory of those days is fuzzy, but I think I've seen it. Is it anywhere near Ala Moana Center?
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The pagoda is in Nuuanu like when you're heading into town from the Pali Lookout. There's this scenic lookout you can pull into so I'm sure there's like a million photos by other tourists that look exactly like mine. Basically it's closer to downtown than Ala Moana.
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I'm in Honolulu pretty much. Near Salt Lake. Which isn't far from the airport and a few miles away from the stadium. Did you ever go to Castle Park?? That's been long gone but I still remember having fun there. I've been to Ala Moana maybe three times since moving back here in 2001... I think Liberty House was just closing when I moved here. JC Penney is gone too.
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"A dime for the monorail back then huh? My parents lied back then! I always wanted to ride the monorail whenever we went there but my parents said it was too expensive!"
HAHAHAHA!! Too funny. The things parents come up with. Yes, it was only dime. I remember because I'd collect dimes and then try to convince my aunt to take me on the weekends. She didn't give in very often. It might've been a dime each way, though; that I don't remember.
"Easiest to remember Wahiawa as the small town in the middle of the island on the way to the North Shore."On the way to the North Shore going the other way, right? Not the Kaaawa/Kahuku side. I don't recognize that town's name. I never went all the way around that side, though, I don't think. The farthest we'd go was to Haleiwa to the shave ice place, which I've heard is still there and is famous now, apparently. My mother used to take me to get shave ice, and then we'd go to the Bonsai Pipeline to watch the waves. Back then, there were only a ( ... )
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There's also a famous shrimp wagon on the north shore. Everyone I know loves it. Except for me 'cause I don't eat shrimp. And my dad too because he's allergic to it. That's one of the stops my sister always goes to whenever she visits. It's an ugly lunch wagon with names and graffiti scribbled all over it. People always sign their names on it including some famous people. I put a "W" on it somewhere. I'm terrible! I felt like it was wrong and that I was vandalizing the truck but they encourage it! Sooo all I have is a tiny little "W" on the backside somewhere that's probably lost among all the other names. Next time I'll make a big fancy "W" and everyone will look at it and say "oh my! That's THE W. I wish I could get his autograph!"
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