Back from the trip and right to work

 Hello everyone,

Well, Hawaii is as wonderful as everyone says! From the moment you get off the plane you feel like you came home, it’s a strange and wonderful thing.

This was the view from our balcony, on one of the days we were there, the water was so clear we could see huge turtles swimming right off the beach!! One of the things I discovered was they distill my very favorite alcoholic beverage near where we were staying. I don’t drink a lot but I do enjoy Ocean Vodka with lemonade or cranberry juice.  It turns out the distillery is on Maui!

They didn’t have lemonade or cranberry juice so, a screwdriver it was!

They also make rum and gin, which I didn’t know so we had a little taste testing! All quite good!

We went out to eat at Mic Fleetwood’s restaurant and unfortunately my wife got food poisoning!! Sick for about a day and a half. The food was delicious, so I don’t know what happened. Anyway, the rest of the trip was delightful!

We returned to Indy early Friday morning(1 am) slept in Diego and went to see Santana on Friday night. Earth, Wind and Fire played with him and they were outstanding! We had heard he had collapsed at a show on Monday from dehydration and were sort of expecting it to be cancelled, as it turns out he still wasn’t feeling well and they cancelled after EWF had played, tickets will still be honored on August 3rd, hopefully he’s fully recovered by then.

We finally landed at home Saturday afternoon and discovered a huge tree had fallen from our property onto the neighbor’s property( the nice neighbor!!). So today we started cutting and splitting it up for winter firewood.

It’s a lot of wood and very heavy, but we did get a little extra help:

The neighbor’s dog, he just a big dumb playful pup!!

I have several things on the agenda this week before I can get back to the bike, but I’m going to try and get the wheels up to the guy who’s going to unlace them for me. Probably toward the end of the week.

While I was in Maui I spotted a shirt that reminded me of my cousin “ Shop Teacher Bob”, everyone besides family calls him “ Chief” so here it is:

I was going to buy it for him but all they had were smalls, I figured he needed at least a large so, sorry all you get is the picture!!

Well, I think that’s all for now.

Talk to you soon, 

TVI