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solakani said:

My associates all recommend cruises and say that once and you are hooked. I'd rather go to places and have a local experience. In Oahu, they serve Haole pizza (pineapple and ham). On Maui's north shore, kids 6 years of age have a surf contest in the ocean. Meanwhile, kids at the resort are terrified just listening to the waves crashing on the jetty. If you backpack, expenses can be quite manageable. I believe the cruise ship around Hawaii is a small one. When in Honolulu, a last minute cruise could be less than staying in a hotel.

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I am curious. How would putting my stuff into a backpack save me money?

GreatwhiteNorth said:

You couldn't pay me to take a cruise ship, especially during this PanDamnit.

Plus I've got enough sea time - don't need any more!

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KC-135's were our transportation most of the time, once it got off the ground everyone would find a place around the cargo to roll up in a sleeping bag. The KC-10's had a PAX pallet with seats jam packed on them, not high on comfort. They had contract flights from the states to the desert that were about the same for leg room, it sucked. Landings were interesting because they dropped in to make sure no shoulder fired missiles could get to them. The ferry flight in a C-130 was interesting, did avoidance maneuvers the whole way there. Commercial aircraft are like Cadillac's.

the closest i might do to a cruse would be one of the long range fishing boats out of San Diego....

cannabineer said:

I am curious. How would putting my stuff into a backpack save me money?

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For one thing, you do not have to tip the porter.

solakani said:

For one thing, you do not have to tip the porter.

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I fear however that I’d be subjected to a general erosion in amenities. If someone else does not provide fresh linens daily, imo the line has been crossed from vacation to adventure. I did NOT save up for an adventure.

I just want to drive on, drive off asap, no boarding and drama.
Just ferrys with coffee; galley and bar is a plus.

cannabineer said:

I fear however that I’d be subjected to a general erosion in amenities. If someone else does not provide fresh linens daily, imo the line has been crossed from vacation to adventure. I did NOT save up for an adventure.

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I hear you. My goal was to drive around Maui, Kauai and Oahu. In Kauai, the road does not circle the island. It is a 2 day hike to the other side.

solakani said:

I hear you. My goal was to drive around Maui, Kauai and Oahu. In Kauai, the road does not circle the island. It is a 2 day hike to the other side.

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I greatly enjoyed the Big Island in ‘96. They have a lighting ordinance there, so it made sense that I dedicated 1/3 my weight allowance to big binos and a star map.

cannabineer said:

I greatly enjoyed the Big Island in ‘96. They have a lighting ordinance there, so it made sense that I dedicated 1/3 my weight allowance to big binos and a star map.

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Guam was nice, other than the brown tree snakes and 7 typhoons in two years. We had to wait on Oahu for a few days during a relay flight because of one, tough TDY.

raratt said:

Guam was nice, other than the brown tree snakes and 7 typhoons in two years.

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I’ve heard of dodgy vehicles called Guam bombs. We’re they a thing when you were there?

cannabineer said:

I’ve heard of dodgy vehicles called Guam bombs. We’re they a thing when you were there?

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Boonie cars, rusted out bondo and chicken wire transportation. Some were close to flintstone cars.

raratt said:

Boonie cars, rusted out bondo and chicken wire transportation. Some were close to flintstone cars.

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Lotta foot-pounds in pounding feet.

cannabineer said:

Lotta foot-pounds in pounding feet.

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Pop rivets and a couple pieces of galvanized roofing, it'll work.

Last day of holidays before I go back to work tomorrow.

Cleared a heap of crap out of the shed we're "temporarily" living-in during our house build, in order to create space for another tent intended for cloning. Started to assemble the tent & discovered that one particular part is not what it's marked-as & no amount of farnarkeling will change the situation

The Mrs has been at me to do a thorough clean of all our multiple fridges over the Xmas break, so we got stuck-in. Disassembled/washed/dried all the shelves & chucked-out some shit.

Went to reassemble the complicated shelving & couldn't figure-out how to get it back together (no weed was consumed during this, so I have no excuse.....). 'Got really rather frustrated.

The Mrs sat on the floor & offered-up her female bits & asked me to offer-up my male bits to get the two to get back together....

Lo & behold, the world got better!


We also reassembled the errant fridge-bits.....

Sure, she can talk all day about pot, but can she trim at the same time?
Too bad she didn't talk about her dabbing rig.

He's waay too slow to be a trimmer.
What was he supposed to do? Where's the pot?
He talked about everything but hard work. I didn't hear a word when he started moaning and complaining, which was constantly.

I stupidly gave a lady undiluted compost tea, the plant was burnt so bad ah well a lesson learned.

Just a quickie, can you fridge compost teas, banana teas etc.