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marzullo
`Olu`olu
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 Posted - 06/30/2004 : 01:03:15 AM
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i thought i'd share with you our experience with a moloka`i night on the town. this happened mid-way through AMC 2004. it was instituted by kevin brown, and the participants were mark, dave nye, richard, kevin and me. dave was manning the wheel, and the rest of us were piled in his rental.
we took off around 9.30 PM for kaunakakai from kaupoa. that's an 8 mile/ 30+ minute drive up a dirt road to mauna loa and then another 20 or so miles into downtown kaunakakai. when downtown, you park on the main street (ala malama, i think) and walk down a dark alley. after about 50 yards you make a left down a narrower dark alley, which ends at a pair of heavy and rough wood doors with a flouresent bulb above it. there's a boarded-up window to the side of the door, with "knock here" written on the board.
you hammer on the board, and a few minutes later the doors open to reveal a baker of the kanemitsu bakery. he takes your order on a note pad and shuts the doors. about five minutes later he shows up with your bread, fresh from the oven, each unwrapped and in its own plastic grocery bag.
the menu is beside the "knock here" sign. you can get the bread plain, or with any combo of filling (strawberry, cinnamon, butter, some other stuff i think...). the sign also asks you to "be nice to the man behind the door and enjoy your bread".
the main street was jumping when we got back out of the alley - there were some local kids having a small street party. we later heard that after the kaunakakai slack key festival, kanemitsu had so many nighttime visitors that they sold out of bread before the bakery opened the next day.
most of us ate much of our bread on the way back to kaupoa: all except dave (who was driving) and kevin (who was waiting to eat the bread right). when we got back, the bread was still hot. kevin added the right amount of butter (= a lot) and dunked it in hot chocolate. it's sublime. others later told me that can also use coffee.
these moloka`i folks know how to have fun...
aloha,
keith
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 06/30/2004 : 02:13:40 AM
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A food experience at another camp on Maui: the Kahumoku campers who went to Kahakuloa to work in the taropatch for the cultural "aksperience" were treated to shave ice afterwards and the spectacular view of the rocky north shore and Kahakuloa head at Ululani's shave ice stand along the narrow road through town. About 40 of us hit it at one time so it took awhile, but the shave ice (some got ice cream, too) was heavenly (plenty syrup!). I think the owner is Ululani Ho'opi'i, Richard Ho'opi'i's wife, (or a similarly named relative) though I didn't see her there that day. But the tiny stand is covered with photos of the Ho'opi'i brothers with friends in various places around the world, including one with President Clinton that was shot in Lahaina. Plus, Nancy Kahumoku paid the bill for all of us. Best shave ice on Maui.
Nothing builds up an appetite like being hunched over in the taro patch all day (okay, it was two hours). I asked taro farmer Oliver Dukelow if there was a particular song that went along with taro patch work. "Yeah," he said, not looking up from the muddy water. "Just get it done!"
Then we got to sit under his waterfall and get free lomilomi on our middle-aged shoulders.
Jesse Tinsley
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donley
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2004 : 2:04:34 PM
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The lady who runs the stand is indeed Richard's wife
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2004 : 6:28:23 PM
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He 'ono!
Especially on a hot day. And you can't beat the view.
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Bwop
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 07/10/2004 : 5:42:29 PM
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Aloha e Jesse!
"You can't beat the day..."-- Ackspecially when you drive up there being serenaded by your beautiful voice and home-spun uke!! Now THAT was da best... |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2004 : 01:50:07 AM
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Mahalo for the ride, Peter, and for Melinda's driving on that scary road!
It takes a few weeks, being back at work on the mainland, to put all the great memories of an island visit into perspective.
We were all privileged to be there. I hope the music camps continue until I can afford to go back again and spend a whole week enjoying the music.
Jesse Tinsley
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Maureen
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 01:20:10 AM
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| I heard about this, that it even comes with cream cheese and jelly. And that's how I realized that it was definitely not "God's will" for me to go to Aloha Camp, or my weight loss program would have been completely trashed. It was about 1,000 degrees outside today, with humidity, and I gotta tell you, I am SO thankful for Auntie Beverly, and so are all of our horses!!! She is a true Hawaiian. She is a very precious rare jewel/gem in the human race. I would there were more people like her. There is a buckskin with a strange rash, that looks like atoll-islands. Sometimes he even has problems breathing. THey think it is allergies. Auntie is so kind!!! THere are just not many people on the earth like that any more. I am very very pomaika'i to know her. |
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Julie H
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2004 : 01:41:03 AM
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Eh Maureen, I took a look at your picture, there sure are a lot of you!!! Like Jesse, I got to enjoy Kahakuloa Valley, but last year. It is truly a special place, and I hope to do it again next year.
Ululani and Richard are two treasures, I was honored to get the chance to talk to them. Egads, in this election year with all the clowns running around trying to get elected in many races, from local to national, it is so grand to remember that there are truly human treasures among us.
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