Moana Surfrider - Waikiki
It is 11 AM on Monday morning in Waikiki - Honolulu - Hawaii. We just checked into this place. For the past 25 years - Lulu has coveted staying at this historic old hotel. For 25 years - she has crashed their pool and beach - but now she is a guest in the Banyan Wing.
This is the oldest hotel on the beach - when visitors used to come here from the mainland in the 30s - their amphibious China Clipper aircrafts would drift right up to the dock and people would walk directly into the hotel.
Doris Duke - of the tobacco family - was a scandal when she dated Olympian Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku here.
For the next 4 nights we will stay here - Lulu is presenting at a convention - I am loafing. We walked about 4 blocks down the street from our last hotel.
Our room is right above the R in resort on this picture.
That is Diamond Head in the background - our hotel on the left.
Our room is on the 4th floor right directly below the roof - second one from the water.
This is where we took surfing lessons 2 years ago.
We will have breakfast below this Banyan tree.
That is Waikiki's main street - the airport is about 8 miles to the right. Florida is about 5000 miles to the left.
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