great weekend on the big island!
Thursday evening after finishing work a little early, James drove me to the Lihue airport to catch a plane to Kona, on the big island (Hawaii). We had to leave a little early to make extra time in case there was any traffic and I'm glad we did. Since its only a two lane road until Lihue, any little accident or back up can really take a long time.
Once I got to the airport I had some time to kill waiting for my flight, so of course I explored one of the two airport shops looking at all of the little Kauai trinkets and souvenirs. My flight's airline is called go! and it recently started competing with the only other inter-island flight companies of Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines. The market is hard to compete in and the two main airlines typically drive prices up to over $100 per flight. Doesn't sound too expensive, but considering that a flight isn't longer than 30 minutes, equivalent flights are sure cheaper on the mainland. go! was an interesting experience and they were pretty unorganized on the way there, for example bringing us out on the runway to load our plane before the flight before us had even been unloaded. I hope they make it though, they seem to be a pretty neat company and especially trying to focus on local Hawaiians rather than tourists.
I flew to Honolulu and then to Kona and arrived around 8:30 pm. My friend Dave Lennon was flying in the same time from LA and his roommate and my friend James DiMartino came to pick us up. It was great to see some familiar faces in the islands and even cooler to exchange stories with them. James and Dave had both graduated from WSU's hospitality program and I had worked with Dave at the Coug. So of course, when we were leaving we decided to go to the Kona Brewery. I was starving by the time we got there, but unfortunately they had closed down the kitchen. So instead we just sat down for a beer and talked. I had this awesome Lilikoi Wheat Ale and James and Dave both had the Hula Hefeweizen. We also got to sample the new Black Sand Porter.
Pretty soon we headed to toward Waikoloa and stopped at their favorite local bar(and only one in town) and grubbed some delicious cheeseburgers. After that we headed home and I crashed on their couch. Got a busy day on Saturday!
Once I got to the airport I had some time to kill waiting for my flight, so of course I explored one of the two airport shops looking at all of the little Kauai trinkets and souvenirs. My flight's airline is called go! and it recently started competing with the only other inter-island flight companies of Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines. The market is hard to compete in and the two main airlines typically drive prices up to over $100 per flight. Doesn't sound too expensive, but considering that a flight isn't longer than 30 minutes, equivalent flights are sure cheaper on the mainland. go! was an interesting experience and they were pretty unorganized on the way there, for example bringing us out on the runway to load our plane before the flight before us had even been unloaded. I hope they make it though, they seem to be a pretty neat company and especially trying to focus on local Hawaiians rather than tourists.
I flew to Honolulu and then to Kona and arrived around 8:30 pm. My friend Dave Lennon was flying in the same time from LA and his roommate and my friend James DiMartino came to pick us up. It was great to see some familiar faces in the islands and even cooler to exchange stories with them. James and Dave had both graduated from WSU's hospitality program and I had worked with Dave at the Coug. So of course, when we were leaving we decided to go to the Kona Brewery. I was starving by the time we got there, but unfortunately they had closed down the kitchen. So instead we just sat down for a beer and talked. I had this awesome Lilikoi Wheat Ale and James and Dave both had the Hula Hefeweizen. We also got to sample the new Black Sand Porter.
Pretty soon we headed to toward Waikoloa and stopped at their favorite local bar(and only one in town) and grubbed some delicious cheeseburgers. After that we headed home and I crashed on their couch. Got a busy day on Saturday!
Kona Brewery Pub in the daytime
posted by L @ 10:52 AM
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