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I lived there for about 2 years - moved out there for a job after graduating college. I worked for an architecture firm right next to Ala Moana.
The biggest thing I miss is being able to walk and/or ride my bike everywhere. I lived behind Waikiki on the other side of the Ala Wai - one apt was in Kapahulu and the next was Moiiliili... so they were super convenient to everything. I had a car but didn't use it often. Now that I'm in the Syracuse area, I live in a walkable village which is the closest I could get to what I used to have in Hawaii. I also find it totally ridiculous that you have to pay to go to beaches and parks here.
yes moiliili is so convenient. we own an apartment building there and i really want to live there because it's so close to everything but it's too small for us. i told my wife we could always take up 2 units but she said we need the income more than the convenience. thanks and aloha.
Well...if you are taking the Thruway...you'll be going through Rochester (Eastview Mall, Red Wings AAA baseball), then Syracuse (Carousel Center, AAA Chiefs baseball, Dinosaur BBQ), then Chittenango (Chittenango Falls), next Verona (Turning Stone Casino), then Utica (nothing much), followed by Albany (Crossgates Mall), followed by a long ride down the Hudson Valley to New Paltz (awesome college town, Mohonk Mountain House), then Newburgh (Orange County Choppers, Hudson Valley Renegades A baseball, 59 miles N NYC), followed by Monroe/Woodbury (huge outlet known as Woodbury Common), then you can either enter New Jersey (quicker to NYC, cheaper gas, the marvel that is Route 17, and the Garden State Plaza) or you can stay in New York and go through Rockland/Westchester Counties (Palisades Mall, huge)...and by that point you'd be just a few minutes outside of NYC.
The A&W in Cortland is the last one where you order your food the original way it was done it all A&W's way back when....way back before Pepsi bought them and popped into Taco Bells, KFCs, and Long John Silvers.
To the OP, what is your route? That would help folks give you ideas what's along the way. I would have thought you'd take the Thruway from Buffalo to NYC, but it doesn't sound like that was your plan based on you looking up what the Thruway was. Have a safe trip!
If you have the time, taking US Route 20 through the Finger Lakes is a beautiful ride. It's slower than the Thruway, but toll free! And you can see many of the lakes. Most have parks on the north end and benches for sitting and relaxing. Several also have boat rides.
this is what we ended up doing. just let the wife tell me where to stop and we did, let her shop, then off we went again. hit a lot of small towns, drove past the bare knuckle boxing hall of fame, didn't stop though, and casually made our way down. thanks for all the advice. aloha.
this is what we ended up doing. just let the wife tell me where to stop and we did, let her shop, then off we went again. hit a lot of small towns, drove past the bare knuckle boxing hall of fame, didn't stop though, and casually made our way down. thanks for all the advice. aloha.
loved the scenery and all those little towns but nothing really stood out. was glad the weather cooled down a bit. it was really nice at niagara, beautiful weather.
thanks. new york was a blast. hawaiian airlines started flying direct from oahu and offered promotional fares (200 each way) so we saw a bunch of local people all over nyc. i don't know what it is, but we can just spot each other even on a packed new york sidewalk. pretty funny.
thanks. new york was a blast. hawaiian airlines started flying direct from oahu and offered promotional fares (200 each way) so we saw a bunch of local people all over nyc. i don't know what it is, but we can just spot each other even on a packed new york sidewalk. pretty funny.
That's awesome!!! I have taken the Honolulu-Newark flight several times... I'd much rather have one long flight than several shorter ones. I think it was last year I saw a HI license plate and totally freaked out! If I didn't have to head back to work, I would've tried to meet up with them lol And I totally know what you mean... even though I only lived there 2 years, I could easily pick a local out of a crowd
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And I totally know what you mean... even though I only lived there 2 years, I could easily pick a local out of a crowd 
