To Life, to Life, Lahaina!

By the way, Boomerang is from 1992, while Point Break is from 1991.

On JOE!'s suggestion, we decided to road trip to Lahaina, and it didn't take long to like the place. Only about a 40-minute drive up the Maui coast and a hard left at West Maui, this was a little like Provincetown without the subculture. Shops on the sea, a charming/quirky/odd downtown with restaurants on the water and lots of A/C-friendly buildings -- all of which gave me a chance to test life without sunblock. Lunch: tuna melt on one plate, club sandwich on the other. Both quite good.

A few hours went by quickly. (We stayed as long as we could, though, trying to get the most of our parking fee. Five dollars for 30 minutes, $10 for 2-6 hours and $20 for, like, way longer. As I slid my $20 into the meter, Patty appeared over my shoulder and read that "NO CHANGE" would be dispensed. We will almost make up for this financial mistake later.) We headed for the "I'll buy a vowel" town of Ka'anapali. Excellent choice. Despite every parking sign in a shopping complex on the ocean reading "NO BEACH PARKING," we were told we should park right there. We did. A few hundred yards later, we were on yet another soft sand beach, watching the waves roll in.

Not surprisingly, I napped. Patty read.

We stopped on the ride home, again driving by the escort of a stunning sunset, at a Safeway for more "staples," (while not on an official Starbucks mission, we did find a new Starbucks location) and, $74 later, saving $18.40 as new Safeway Club members, we had a dinner that we'd cook at home.

I made the chicken, which was, not surprisingly, outstanding, even though it was cooked on a grill I'd never used before. I'm a gamer. Patty took care of the sides, and we ate it about 18 inches away from the 46-inch flat screen above the dining room table. (A heartwarming edition of Wife Swap.)

In all, we chalk it up as the fifth consecutive great day in Maui.