Maui Anticipation (April 2021)
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In normal times, visiting Maui is a treat, and anticipating and packing for Maui are like contemplating and preparing for an exotic dessert. Even airport time is (relatively) pleasant or at least bearable. Now, despite some loosening of restrictions, we're not yet back to fully normal times, and may never get there. So the attraction of Maui is now stronger than ever, especially for sand-deprived high-latitude visitors who satisfy Maui's advance testing requirements.
After the long travel hiatus, everything about air travel seems novel (food! prepared and delivered by someone else! free beverages! moving above the earth while seated in lounge chairs in an aluminum tube!). Certainly the in-flight anticipation is greater, to the point of watching progress and appreciating the view from 33,000 feet: leaving behind hills still covered with snow and ponds still covered with ice and enjoying the variety of cloud shapes, until characteristic ocean puff balls appear as the Islands approach.
Snowy hills and frozen streams disappear.
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Cloud shapes and textures entertain.
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Mid-Pacific puff balls appear as Maui approaches.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.