Our next adventure after Seattle Washington was a ten day trip to Maui Hawaii.
I had no idea what to expect when it came to a long flight, or an airplane bathroom.
(very tiny and very scary)
The plane ride from Portland Oregon to Maui is five and a half hours long.
It sounds like not much but when you are in a seat cramped together it is very challenging experience.
We took our daughter and her three daughters so we had new travelers who had never been in a plane.
The take off is always scary and I almost had a panic attack, it felt like we went from a mild float to a upturned roar, I kept telling myself to breathe.
The pilot did say we were at thirty four thousand feet high and going at a speed of five hundred miles an hour.
(e-gads did he really say that?)
After we landed a very bumpy landing we hurried to get a rental family van so we could travel comfortably.
Our place we rented was found on VRBO vacation rentals by owner, which basically means it’s not a motel/hotel it’s a condo that is owned by someone.
Much nicer experience and more like a home setting. We had a two bedroom two bathroom with a hide a bed in the living room so it comfortably slept six.
It was about a thousand square feet with plenty of room and a lanai (patio) and two pools. Plus we were very close to the beach. The kitchen and bathrooms were stocked well with assorted items. We provided our own food.

In this new experience of Hawaiian life, we discovered many little gecko’s running around the sidewalks or outside walls of the units.
They were very small about five inches long and they moved very fast.

The next morning we woke up to tropical breezes and bird sounds. I miss the birds. They were amazing.
Some sounded like our ‘mourning dove sounds’ and others were very different.
We had a vacation to conquer in a short amount of time.
It was fun to explore and discover new areas of the island, oh and of course the food was wonderful.