~ Wait, What? This Isn't Hawaii?
” May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii …”
We’ll be home before you know it!!
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Recently my dearest Husband and I celebrated a landmark Wedding Anniversary by making the drive to The Grand Canyon North Rim.
This has been on my bucket list for quite a while now, and we finally made it there.
We made arrangements to stay 2 nights at their Motel rather than getting a private cabin, and I’m glad that we did.
On one of our visits to The Grand Canyon South Rim, I picked the brain of a Park Ranger. I asked him which he preferred and emphatically said do not bother with getting a cabin!
After checking in to our motel room, we walked over to the Lodge, where they had both food and drink available. We both got a beverage and took a seat outside one of the two patios to watch the Sunset.
It was a little chilly outside, so I quickly snagged us a great seat inside. AH! That’s better.
That was breath taking!
If you ever get the opportunity, GO!
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“Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…”
The morning after a pretty good snow storm a coupla years back, DH and I took a drive up to the South Rim of The Grand Canyon… we don’t live terribly far away.
We took a picnic lunch, a thermos of hot Coffee and made a day of it.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Ya know when you go on a trip and you want to buy EVERYTHING to bring home? 
Yeah, NO!!
One must use restraint and NOT try to over do it!
I always pack a large, collapsible bag that I can jam all of our clothes in and then all the stuff that I buy to bring back goes into the suitcase. This trip was no exception.
I had a bunch of frozen foods too, the usual suspects, S&S Saimin, Portuguese Sausage, etc… but forgot to take photos. 
Now here’s the rub of this trip …
My husband has had his eye on this beautiful Koa Wood replica of the main Hawaiian Islands, FOR YEARS!
I had bought a hard-sided suitcase, small enough to take as a Carry-On, but large enough to pack-up fragile items to take back from Hawaii.
And that’s what blew out DH’s left bicep !!!
I had wrapped each ‘Island’ in Bubble-Wrap and very carefully packed these in the Carry-On bag, that we stashed in the overhead bin, for the Airplane ride back to Arizona.
It was easy going up, it was the trying to wrangle it back down that was the problem.
So ends this installment of our trip, but do please stay tuned as I continue through, backwards
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Geez, ya know what? It just dawned on me that we never talked about our trip back home to Oahu! That was almost two years ago 
So let’s back this awfully strange train that we’ve been on ever since and start from the ending of our trip and work our way backwards. 
You’ll remember I posted that I had been absent for a time back then because my Dearest Husband had gotten injured, this was as we were dis-embarking our flight back to Arizona.
https://mykitcheninthemiddleofthedes…e-to-chat-but/
Yeah, so … moving … backwards
Whenever we do fly back from Hawaii, we make our last stop before hitting the airport, ZIPPY’S!!!!
I need that last hit, because we won’t be having this again very soon 
Sorry, I couldn’t wait to start eating!
I got us each a Zip Pac® for our on-board lunch (sorry Hawaiian Airlines, I don’t care for your free meals very much) and as the drink cart came past us I ordered a locally brewed Beer that our friend had introduced me to on this trip … Maui Brewing Co.’s Bikini Blonde
YUM!
That was ONO (that’s delicious in Hawaiian) !!!!
So that was the end of our trip, but do please stay tuned as I continue through, backwards
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So we started to talk about our Travel Bucket List and I was thinking that this would make for a great
conversation!
It all started when I saw this, somewhere, I forget where :
I started marking off where I had been already:
… and tops on our future travel bucket list is Horseshoe Bend! It’s not very far from our house, so we’ve already got a plan ready to GOOOOOOOOO!
How’s about you?
Where would you like to go?
And it really doesn’t need to be in the US,
why not think global?
Of course this conversation is purely for entertainment sake.
In today’s World, we’re not going anywhere for a while 
but it’s fun to dream, isn’t it? 
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I took this photograph May of 2019, on one of our last days back home in Honolulu Hawaii. The Sun was just going down and the colors grabbed me and chocked me up.
With tears rolling silently down my cheeks I sang …
Who would have known at the time that I probably will never return.
It’s been a very difficult year for everyone, but Hawaii has been hit extra hard and I’m certain that we won’t be able to go home again for a very, very long time.
“… one fond embrace, until we meet again.”
… Somewhere along The Million Dollar Highway in Colorado, what a ride!
I have goose bumps just thinking back on this day back in 2014 … it was a cool and crisp Fall day, we were visiting friends in Durango and headed over the mountain after an early snow storm.
We pulled off the road to take photographs and it just tumbled out …. “Rocky Mountain High … in Colorado … “
Funny thing, the other folks that had pulled off to gaze in awe, started to sing with me!
I posted a ways back about standing atop Pikes Peak in Colorado and found myself singing America The Beautiful, out loud mind you! 
Well, one of my blog followers had made mention the she’d like to read more about this series… Krystle, you’ve inspired me, mahalo, thank you friend!
There are many times that a song will pop into my head, especially when we’re traveling.
When we go home to Hawaii, there are more than I could count.
This is a photograph of my Husband that I took of him standing on the Beach on Oahu, our last day there back in 2015.
I was sitting at the Shore Break with huge Crocodile tears welling up in my eyes. Thank goodness DH didn’t see that, or hear my voice breaking as I softly sang to myself, Honolulu City Lights.
“… Bring me back again …”
… but it’s lookin’ like we aren’t going anywhere any time SOON! 
I guess we’ll just have to wait this out, but the World as we knew it a few months ago may never be the same
Here’s hoping! 
My Kitchen In The Middle Of The Desert 
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