Monday November 21st, 2005 by Brian
Today was Pearl Harbor day. Not officially or anything, but it was our scheduled day to see the USS Arizona memorial. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII and I really wanted to see the memorial. This was a running joke between us where I told Jennifer I would go on the educational portion of the trip and she could sit on the beach. In the end, we got up early and left our hotel by 7am so we could be near the front of the line. It’s not far from waikiki but the speed limit on most of oahu is 35 or 45mph. Thankfully there aren’t many police so you can drive (along …
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Monday November 21st, 2005 by Brian
Yesterday (Saturday), we rented a motorcycle here in Honolulu and rode out to the North shore across the island. It was a Shadow 600 which is more of a roadster than the Ninja I normally ride and the steering was a bit tricky to get used to. The guy who rented it to us sounded like High Pitch Eric from the Howard Stern show and was listening to ABBA in his SAAB (”If you’re in a swedish car, you have to listen to swedish music”).
On our way to the Banzai pipeline, we stopped at the Dole Plantation and then rode northwest to check out the Vans Triple Crown surf competition going on. Unfortunately it wasn’t happening …
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