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August 18 Thunder Bird Falls and Potter Marsh
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It’s a Monday Morning!
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Carolina Holiday!
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Home! Saturday After Recovery!
We finally arrived home about 3 PM on Friday. After collecting our bags at the Philadelphia Airport and getting driven home by Delaware Express shuttle down a very busy I-95.
We mostly just found the house and got our bags in the right place to unload on Saturday. Vegetated would be a good description of what we did.
This morning we were up a little later. Gary was up from 2 to 4 and then slept in to 8-ish. We had gone through the held mail last night and sorted it into recycle, read later and needs attention right away. So this morning after breaakfast of cereal, we updated our financial information in Quicken and dealt with a few things that had to be handled right away. By this time it waas 2 PM!
We ate a quick lunch and went to the produce market (Marinis) and the meat market (Haldas) to get some supplies,
Then it was off to get a couple of geocaches around 4 PM. We headed for Chadds Ford PA for #1. Then not too far away for the #2 for the day.
At #2 there was a new winery across the parking lot. Since they were open we decided to taste their wares. Not great, but reisling and a zinfandel that weren’t too bad.
Then home to a spaghetti dinner with a bottle of merlot.
Still more things to do to recover from being in Hawaii for 3 weeks.
3rd Leg Complete Nearly Home
Just got on the shuttle to take us from PHL to our home in Wilmington! After only 11 hours in the air and 6 hours of waiting time. We left Thu 3 PM HST and arrived Philadelphia Fri 2:30 PM ET.
Now for the ride home on I-95S. On a Friday afternoon with beach traffic and rush hour! Certainly glad I’m not driving!
Oh, and no geocaches so far today. We may have remedy that later.
2nd Leg Complete
We arrived at DFW after an uneventful flight. After the walk from C Terminal to D Terminal we stopped at Cool River Cafe for breakfast. After passing up on McDonalds and Starbucks. Real breakfast! Sit down!
In 3 hours we’ll begin the last leg to Philadelphia.
1st Leg Complete!
Arrived in Honolulu on schedule at 4 PM. Now to charge up the mobile phones for the longer 2nd leg to DFW. Depart Honolulu at 5:40 PM HST.
Joyce is out checking on what we can get for dinner to take along. Hopefully it will be something tasty.
The airline is now calling for volunteers because they are oversold. Nope, not interested!
Thursday We’re On Our Way Day (Aug 20)
Up at 5:30 AM as usual! Had our coffee and breakfast on the lanai for the last time. Took a few last photos of sunrise and clouds. Then started the packing and checking to make sure we had everything before taking our leave of Flower Hill.
We left about 8 AM to return to Akaka Falls to see if the sky would cooperate and provide some blue instead of gray for photo ops. Yea, there was blue sky and whit puffy clouds! Took some photos and got some steps too. AND, we were able to get aan earth cache too–#1 for the day.
Next we headed for anothet nearby beach park to check out another waterfall. Not so impressive, but took some photos anyway. Joyce went looking for a cache while Gary did the photo thing. No luck on finding the ccache.
Still in search of another cache we returned for the third time to the shave ice spot to look once more for the cache that’s supposed to be there. No luck even though there were only a few people around at 11 AM.
Then on to Rainbow Falls for one last photo op. No rainbow at 11:30 in the morning. Too late!
Gary, still in need of a Hawaiin shirt, took the advice of our hosts and shopped in Walmart.
One last try to locate an interesting Post Office to photograph was a bust. It was time to get to the airport, return the rental car and check in. After passing security we had lunch in the waiting area to use up the last of our food items.
Almost readyto board the flight for Honolulu.
Wednesday Aug 19 continued…
After we thought about some, we decided to try for a cache again today. We returned to the shave ice establishment and still too many things going on to try for that cache.
We decided to try for one at the Pepeekeo lighthouse located down toward the ocean from our guest house. It was a remote possibility. After locating the public access to the shore, we made our way to the rocky ledge and had a walk through tall grasses and over rocks and trees to see the lighthouse. The cache was located closer to the public access, but it had been moved and the new coordinates didn’t seem to point to any logical location. We abandoned this one too.
We had on last hope at the big gear on a pedestal at the main road. Fortunately we had success here and found our only cache today.
Back at the guest house we did take showers, got out boarding passes, made dinner and enjoyed the lanai one last evening on the Big Island. Enjoyed another pineapple courtesy of our hosts.