All Smiles

Waiting for a ride from HNL

The stars finally aligned with the work and personal schedules (not to mention flight availability), and I'm off to my old home town for a week.

BTW, Hawaiian Airlines' coach service, with a simple but quality meal service and personal touch-screen video, seems a cut above the competition. Our plane was a new A330.

45 years of flying back and forth have taught me never to take a jacket (unless required for business) and pack lots of shorts and T-shirts. Heat and humidity blanketed the arriving passengers, but like a returning kamaaina I came wearing a thin aloha shirt and light slacks.

My ride asked me not if or when but where I wanted to go for lunch. I was home.