Haven’t spoken much about my Hawaii trip (if people even knew I was on one). First time I’ve been this far away from home. I had an awesome time, though a bike accident (out of my own stupidity) hindered the latter half. I’m still healing, but I’ll be good soon.

Gotta say, I’d would live there if I could. I mean, everyone says that about paradise, but seriously, I loved that atmosphere.  Living in a hotel with just the necessities (and a couple of luxuries) let me just enjoy the things around me. The view, the weather. I loved that everything was in walking distance from my hotel and that I could get a good cheap meal with a five minute walk down the street. Granted, a lot of it is from the perspective of a hotel tourist, so life may not be as fun as imagined, but if I could find a city as close to this experience, even without the view or weather, I’d be a happy man.

I didn’t do as much swimming as I would’ve liked, but I did stick to my goal of eating a new food every day. Ended the trip with some deliciously overpriced sushi. It was a $31 lunch that day for one person… I would rather not talk about how poor Hawaii has made me.

Went on the Lost/Movie tour which was one of my highlights. I got to visit the locations where they filmed a lot of Lost and a lot of horrible movies (which the exception of Jurassic Park). I hated that I went when the show was over, but visiting the beautiful locations was more than enough for me. Most all of the sets were taken down, of course, but a partial Jughead holder and a few docks still remained. I’m bummed that we didn’t get to go to the site of the plane crash but I think the five-hour tour was more than enough. I would’ve had to take the 8-10 hour tour if I wanted to see those locations.

Some pictures of the trip:

Currently listening to latest The Roots album, How I Got Over. Amazing. I’m really glad that Jimmy Fallon hasn’t leashed them. They still got it. Particularly, their song Walk Alone is flat out awesome. People who insult rap or hip-hop have never listened to these guys.

Transformers: War for Cybertron is equally amazing. Rather short, but maybe it’s just so good that I’m not realizing how often I’m playing it. I didn’t beat it yet so I’m jumping the ship a bit here, but I already beat the Decepticon levels, am half-way through the game, and I’ve only had it for two-three days with a couple hours each day. I guess that’s six hours though… In any case, well worth the $$. It certainly washes out the taste of the Michael Bay atrocities.