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Daily Rants, Travels

Maui 2025

We had been long overdue on a trip to Maui. After my motorcycle accident back in October, I made it a priority to get us back to paradise. I ensured every place I booked was locked down and had no chance of backing out.

Here, we are heading out of Sacramento Airport and on to Maui. We’ll be stopping at Kona for a plane transfer. Our flight was slightly delayed, and this would be a factor in catching our next flight.

The hopper plane from Kona to Maui was a super short trip but a hell of stressful. When we landed, the passengers were already loading up onto the plane heading to Maui, and the airlines rebooked our seats, they thought we would not make it in time to the checkout counter.

After a chat with the counter person we were able to get a couple seats on board. The seats we ended up with were already taken by other passengers since it was rebooked.

This actually worked out better for us. Instead of sitting in the 27th row section, we got moved up to the 5th row! What a score!

We picked up our car rental for the week and headed out to Kahana Reef, the condo where I had made arrangements for our first 6 days.

Both of us agreed we didn’t remember a lot of the landscape, landmarks, and the areas we drove through. It has been over 27 years since we’ve been to Maui together.

Daily Rants

The streets

I need to find a Story and King Road signs. I used to live in East San Jose during the hay day of Lowrider cruising. Depending on the time and day you may cruise for 2 hours going just one direction.

I can’t recall the exact year but Story Road got shut down for the cruising scene.

1996 Impala SS Convertible

1966 Impala SS Convertible

It was bound to happen at some point. The 1964 Impala SS is gone, replaced with a convertible.

We’ve always enjoyed cruising around in a convertible. The question is running it with juice or air. We may even leave it stock suspension and enjoy the factory smoothness.

Still have the “COOL OG” plates.

I’m currently working on the mechanical updates and maintenance “opportunities”.

Videography

C100 MKII Tilta Carbon Fiber Mattebox

I’ve always liked the look of a mattebox on a film or video rig. As it turns out these are definitely you get what you pay for type of hardware. The models I like were way out there in pricing. Especially the ones that are built up with barn doors and different mounting hardware.

I found this setup from a local bay area cinematographer that was downsizing his gear. It’s a Tilta Carbon Fiber MB-T-03 model that is super nice.

Photo taken without the barn doors installed. Configured for “run and gun” even though this sucker is too heavy for me to be doing that style shooting.

Adding the barn doors completely changes the look, for me at least. This is the difference between walking into a paid gig with a DSLR and a cine camera.

Daily Rants

Easter 2022

It has become a tradition in joining our neighbor and his family down the hill for Easter.

We really enjoy the relaxed get together with no drama. Our host Daniel is a kick ass BBQ chef with the ultimate setup.

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Dam Daily Commute

On my way home I had to double back when I hit Pardee Dam. It turned out some dudes truck caught on fire.

I guess this would be the ideal area for a vehicle fire as there is nothing to burn but concrete. If it came down to it the fire department could have rolled that sucker down the hill and into the lake.