Night.\u00a0 Rain, steady.\u00a0 “Not good when you have to mow the grass and cut the weeds,” said a Japanese maintenance person here at the Grand Hyatt Kauai.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kauai is another country, the oldest of the main Hawai’an Islands.\u00a0\u00a0 It lies furthest to the west, in roughly the path the mid-Pacific plate has crossed over the hotspot now under Kiluaea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island.<\/p>\n
It is far from the oldest.\u00a0 The trail of islands whose formation came on the hotspot stretches\u00a0to the north and east.<\/p>\n
The Hyatt, too, is another world.\u00a0 It has 52 acres of resort including a PGA championship golf course, two wings of rooms and 9 restaurants plus pools, tide pools, and an archaeological excavation on the grounds.<\/p>\n
Our lanai here faces the pools and the grounds, but does have an ocean view though nowhere near as good as the one at the Westin.\u00a0 Still, there are compensations. \u00a0The Stevenson Library is a bar cum sushi bar cum jazz club.\u00a0 Sounds good.<\/p>\n
Flew here this afternoon in a twin prop plane with\u00a0wings on top.\u00a0 When I stood on the runway getting ready to board, I felt like I was in Casablanca.\u00a0 This was two seats on either side of the middle aisle.\u00a0 One stewardess and pilots who looked like they might play in high school band.\u00a0 We had a flight delay because of a switch on the instrument\u00a0 panel had gone out, but the captain said, “Since it belongs to the de-icing sensor, I don’t think it should impede our progress.”<\/p>\n
More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Night.\u00a0 Rain, steady.\u00a0 “Not good when you have to mow the grass and cut the weeds,” said a Japanese maintenance person here at the Grand Hyatt Kauai.\u00a0 Kauai is another country, the oldest of the main Hawai’an Islands.\u00a0\u00a0 It lies furthest to the west, in roughly the path the mid-Pacific plate has crossed over the … Continue reading A True Hotspot<\/span>