Paradise Driver: 04/19/07

Thursday, April 19, 2007

SAME SHIT

DIFFERENT DAY

,Anyway, thats how the night started.

After logging in, I went to the Wailea Lookout:

To watch the fading embers of a beautiful sunset. A thin waxing moon being shepherded to bed by Venus. Please excuse the slight blurriness. This was a time exposure (about 5 seconds) and as hard as I tried to brace the camera, there is still some inherent wobble (couldn't get my heart to stop beating for a few seconds).

By dispatch option, I was moved into Kihei at 9:00pm, sans any fares. About 50 minutes later I am finally assigned a run. Out of Wailea, of course, and took a very nice Japanese couple from there to far north Kihei.

Next run was at 11:15pm. An elderly lady who loves to play "Texas Hold'em" at a residence right behind the Kihei District Police Station. The "buy in" is $35 and the pay out is to the top three winners, with #1 usually getting about $900 (thats some serious "chump change"). She never leaves a "winner" and she always requests me, since riding in a sedan is so much easier for her.

A 1:30am "flag" took me from the "Triangle" to Wailea.

And that ended our "busy"

hours. 3 runs, less than $50.

Maybe I can get by on just 1/2 of a PB&J sandwich, a day, for the next 2 months.

But fortune and fate turned a kind eye towards me right after everyone went home. "Flagged" from the "Triangle" to the south end of town. A phone request from FoodLand to north central Kihei. Phone request from central Kihei to the Pride of Aloha, at Kahului Harbor and capped off the shift with a "regular" bartender, taking her home.

Flor (#27) was in by 4:00am, Prim (#22) was there by 4:30am and I was home by 5:00am. Passed on some decent reservations that should bring some smiles to the day driver's faces.

***

ONE-NINE at The Shops At Wailea.

LOCATION:

Intersection Mokulele Highway (SR-311) and Pi'ilani Highway (SR-31).

TIME:

0330 hours

ACTIVITY:

Checking out an abondoned vehicle.

***

Yes, the "professor" is gone.

But me thinks he shall not go softly into the night.

For legal reasons, I'll just leave it at that

, with one caveat. He WON'T be missed.

***

Thanks again, as always, for stopping by.

Don't forget to change your links, blogrolls, bookmarks/favorites and/or RSS feeds if you are still using the wilkyle.blogspot.com (PARADISE DRIVER) URL. As noted on that site, I will discontinue posting there as of May 1st and will only be posting to the paradisedriver.blogspot.com (Paradise Driver) URL.

Mahalo

Aloha

THE PICTURE GALLERY

Front Street
Lahaina