June 22, 2025

KAHULUI, MAUI, HAWAII

Four of us ( Bob, Sarah, Sherrie & I ) rented a car today to explore Maui quickly, as we only have seven hours in this port of Kahului. It would be to rushed to do the iconic Road to Hana and all of us but Sarah has done it already. Instead we set out to see 'IOA Valley, Twin Falls and Pa'ia town, a cute historical plantation town. Above is the 'Ian Needle,

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Next we were off to see the Twin falls - which are not side by side, but rather up stream from each other. It was a nice enough walk and stretch of the legs, but the heights of the falls are far from impressive.

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    Second Waterfall

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    First waterfall

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Our final stop, was the town of Pa'ia that had some great local artist and dress shops, bars, ice cream vendors and our favorite a wood fired pizza oven at the Flatbread Company. We were hungry, it smelled amazing and I personally have not had pizza in nine months since the trip started. So yummy - I had homemade fennel sausage & mushrooms on 1/2 and feta and veggies on the other half.

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    Wood fired oven at Flatbread Company

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By Pat Patrick July 14, 2026
I really enjoyed my first trip to Thailand! On our final morning here we went to try breakfast at this spot, down the road, we had been hearing rave reviews on, King Of Bread . The hype was correct, the breakfast was delicious and they had some unique choices. I had eggs benedict on a croissant, in lieu of the standard english muffin and Bosco had it on Milk Bread, which was equally tasty.
By Pat Patrick July 14, 2026
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