Aloha Garden of Peace

Monday, May 20, 2013

Up at 3:13 am

7 oranges for breakfast at the Strong’s house

finished packing

Mark loaded the bags in the rental car

we both worked on preparing 5 nut butter sandwiches

left around 5:15 am

joined up with Nika at 6:30, the car’s owner.  He took us to the airport.

checked 4 suitcases.  carried 3 backpacks (one the “day pack” that zips/unzips from Mark’s large backpack, a red food bag, a purse, and two sweatshirts on the plane

Plane took off close to 8 am, arrived in Maui around 10 am HI time (1 pm CA time).

Less than a minute after we had all bags off the baggage line (around 2 pm), Martin called back and said that he would be there within 1/2 hour.

We enjoyed talking with the security guard after everyone else from the flight left.

Just before he arrived, I remembered that the phone battery was low (20%).

He took us to Ace Hardware in Keaau, and the PO in Kurtistown.

things we bought at Ace:

•   a 12 x 20 tarp
•   a rubbermaid “barrel” which we will store water for laundry, dishes, and clothes washing.  We’ll set up the tarp so that any rainwater it catches can feed into the barrel.
•   100 ft of green heavy duty clothes line and
•   clothes pins.

On May 24-27, Ace is having a sale on the laundry tubs that Rachel wants and the better shovels.  Lawrence was so kind to tell us that the sale is coming up for those items.

The Post office hours are 7 am-1:30 pm! It was 4 pm when we got there.  We’ll try tomorrow 🙂

We got to the land.  Martin helped us unload and we said our goodbyes.

Rachel cleared some of the path while Mark looked for where Big Max was.  He found it and we brought the suitcases in further.  On and off since we got off the plane, it rained.  It rained particularly just as we pulled up to the land and they were unloading.  The tarp we just bought at Ace became useful right away!

The rest of the evening, we spent clearing ferns from the path and carrying bags to Big Max.  We finished around 7 pm.  Made the bed with the 2“ full size bed camping thermarest (brought 2 years ago) and 2” memory foam (new this time). It is very comfortable, except that it is hard to type lying down w/out having your head propped up.

We took our red bag with food, phone, and charge to John Silvestrone’s house, but he didn’t respond, so we just made our way back to Big Max with red bag (food) and ate the 5th sandwich, chips, crackers, craisins, and walnuts.  outside to collect crocs and brush teeth.  good night.  the phone now has 43% power (charging it using the computer), but is not a hotspot so I have to send this from the community center tomorrow when I have WIFI access.  It is 9:26 pm (12:26 CA time) and it is hard to keep my eyes open 🙂

Much love to all and mahalo for reading!

I will write up about Tuesday and Wednesday when I can… 🙂