2023 Hawaiian Xmas Trip

2023-01-16 – Las Vegas. I just realized that just a little over a month ago I was beginning my 19-day visit to Maui. While I was there I tried to stay on top of editing and posting whatever images/videos I was taking but around the mid-point, when we spent the day at Haleakala Observatory, I took too many images/videos to edit and post in the same day and then ran into issues trying to edit video on my iPad. Blah, blah, blah. Alas, I got behind (no one cares!). No worries,  I stayed focused on enjoying the trip, continuing to take lots of images and videos and keep writing. At the moment I have a 93-day writing streak going, but that doesn’t anything to do with my Xmas trip to Hawaii. Anyway, I was determined to not take all of these pictures and videos and then let them languish, hidden on my computer.

So today I finally finished editing and posting everything from my xmas visit with my sister and family in Maui. Most days included a walk of some kind in some beautiful location so I recorded bits of those experiences. In fact, the only time I took out my very nice Sony A7c camera was during our hike on Haleakala Mountain. All the other images/videos were captures on my iPhone 13. In all I took well over 400 images/videos during my stay which found their way into 26 blog posts (including this one) of the 31 blog posts that I made related to the trip. Pretty much each day got its own blog post to share the activity of the day. You’ll find those posts listed below. Today I gathered all the images and video clips created during the trip and had the A.I. in the Photos app on my iPad cut all 400 images/videos into a summary video (posted above).

I can’t begin to say how thankful I am to Joyce, Dano, Nathan, Marie, Tony, Holly and even Aukai (the wonder dog!) for sharing your time with me, inviting me to stay in your home and tolerating my need to watch football whenever possible. You are good people and I’m happy to have spent the time with y’all. I’m so sorry that I didn’t visit sooner, when you could have shared Front Street and the historic district with me. But I look forward to future visits when we can share what good has grown from this tragedy. Until next time, all my love, JBB