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Hawaii is often called Paradise and even sometimes called Heaven. What is Heaven on Earth? Forget what it is, we are born, we live, we leave. What before and what after can bore some and others will express their opinion til the sun sets. Try to live, try to learn, try to share, just try. [...]

It is well known by skiers and snowboarders why they endure cold fingers, noses and toes. If you read these notes on the different ski resorts and wonder why anyone, much less a beach bum from Maui, would want to go into the outdoors in the deep of winter, just ask a skier or a snowboarder [...]

One of my c0-workers at the Westin Villas Maui is Andy Boutihillier and his mother lives outside of Telluride with her husband. We had contacted them to help with the MauiSkiBus adventure and she gave us a very warm invite to their home. I would instead call their home a fantasy ranch, nestled in Alder Canyon, about twenty mlies from [...]

The island of Maui has a famous drive, the Hana Highway, with its numerous one lane bridges, cascading waterfalls, and scary hairpin curves. These curves may have a cliff on one side and a wall of a cliff on the other, or even worse, a local Hawaiian speeding around the corner with a beefed up [...]

During my three crossings of the Pacific between California/Hawaii/California, I often wondered of the great sailor explorers of centuries ago. To leave Europe on sailing vessels made by hand, sails not as efficient as the ones made  today, and no real understanding of what lay past the horizon. To have the confidence and courage to leave [...]

It seems that this season, summer does not want to fall to winter, as we have seen bare mountains great for mountain biking, locals in t-shirts, and a serious demand for sunblock. Breckenridge is charming and seeing many from Maui was a delight, Vail/Beaver Creek teemed with excitement, and the Beach at A-Basin was a soft reminder [...]

“It’s not all down the sink”, is my current motto as of this date for the ski season. So many people rely on the snow and when the snow is lean, so is their pay. A snowstorm is very uplifting in personal moods and personal sporting pleasure. Seeing bare earth is not what locals want [...]

Over ten years ago, numerous individuals from Maui invaded Breckenridge, CO. to work at the Grand Timber Lodge/Grand Lodge on Peak 7. The locals of Breckenridge coined them the “Maui Mafia”. Unlike the real Mafia, these individuals are straight forward in their mannerisms, however all are a bit of characters. The “Don” Grovey Stroevy, D.R. J.R., “Dabman” Brad, [...]

Here is a link to a morning TV show in Vail, a news article from Vail, and a news ariticle in Breckedridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ2FA1lYtBQ&list=UUEUviHsGJ9OwQKXCSZNc1-g&index=27&feature=plpp_video Contact MauiSkiBus.com at mauistyl@maui.net

93,000,000 miles away is Earth’s lifeblood of warmth, our stable star that burns vision. We welcome the light, need it for growth, and shy away at times of intensity. Even on most nights, the sunlight reflects in different phases on our moon. Near to us on earth, but still so far away in miles. A [...]