My Drive Home; King St., Kalakaua and Kuhio Ave.

[slip]

I'm still getting used to my new phone so I have been using it often. I really like the camera and it takes pretty good pictures. Traffic was slow on my ride home today so I took some random shots on the way.

I'll probably split them up in a couple posts. It starts on Umi Street. That's where our warehouse is. From there I turn onto King Street until Kalakaua. I then slide onto Kuhio Ave. until Seaside and then onto Ala Wai Blvd. to where we live.

This way is usually about the quickest and there are plenty of places for me to stop and bring home dinner if I need to.

If you have been to Oahu before, you may recognize some things along the way.

 

[slip]

So I left off at Farrington High School on King Street with the last post. This one will pick up from there heading to Waikiki.

 

[slip]

The last post stopped right at the bridge crossing into Chinatown. We're going through Chinatown still heading toward Waikiki.

 

[slip]

The last post stopped just past 5-0 Headquarters.
So I usually stay on King Street but the turn for Kapiolani is coming up and I take that once in a while if it is really busy.
I continue on King and I turn off on Kalakaua.

 

[slip]

The last post stopped at The Golden Duck. Which is what we had for dinner tonight. Now we continue on toward Kalakaua.

 

[slip]

The last post ended just as I crossed the bridge on Kalakaua over the Ala Wai Canal.
So we pick up from there and move onto Kuhio Ave and then onto Seaside up to Ala Wai Blvd to where I am basically home.

The commute is about 5 miles and takes about 20 to 25 minutes on a good day and an hour on a bad one. That route turned into my favorite, it's amazing what you see everyday to keep you entertained.

We really need a Shaka emoji.

 

[frank808]

Don't get caught with an electronic device in your hand while driving especially near or in Waikiki (lots of police). The fine is over $100.

Sent from my SM-T290 using Tapatalk

 

[slip]

Don't get caught with an electronic device in your hand while driving especially near or in Waikiki (lots of police). The fine is over $100.

Sent from my SM-T290 using Tapatalk

Yep, there are a ton of Police everyday on that route.
I should mention that I have a visor mount and my new phone can take a picture by me just saying “picture”. I can just flip the visor to get other directions. Some pictures I have to edit a bit. May not totally count but it is hands free.

 

[Tamaradarann]

Yep, there are a ton of Police everyday on that route.
I should mention that I have a visor mount and my new phone can take a picture by me just saying “picture”. I can just flip the visor to get other directions. Some pictures I have to edit a bit. May not totally count but it is hands free.

Great Pictures. While we have never driven that route we have, at times, walked the route from when you entered Chinatown to where you live so the pictures bring back many nice memories. Of particular note is Chinatown, Iolani Palace, the Statue of King Kamehameha, Blaisdale Concert Hall and the Farmer's Market, the Bridge over the Ala Wai, and the Royal Kuhio where we have stayed a couple of times.

 

[slip]

Great Pictures. While we have never driven that route we have, at times, walked the route from when you entered Chinatown to where you live so the pictures bring back many nice memories. Of particular note is Chinatown, Iolani Palace, the Statue of King Kamehameha, Blaisdale Concert Hall and the Farmer's Market, the Bridge over the Ala Wai, and the Royal Kuhio where we have stayed a couple of times.

I actually thought of you when I got a picture of Blaisdell because I remembered you once said you went there for the market and it was Wednesday and the tents were set up.

 

[linsj]

Thanks for the ride! I'm familiar with a good portion of your route. But I don't remember seeing the waterfalls and Aloha mural. Where exactly are they?

 

[heckp]

Thanks for the ride I agree! That Aloha mural, is that the side of Honolulu Coffee infront of Hawaii convention, Kalakaua and Kapiolani?

 

[rickandcindy23]

What kind of phone is that? I would love to have a phone that would take a picture so easily. I would have to remember to mount it for a picture, but still...

Three days ago we were driving our route to Egg Harbor, WI for lunch and experienced an awesome sight. We spotted a huge bird coming in for a landing and saw it's rear talons come down, and it was aiming right for the car. We realized it was a bald eagle after some carrion on the road in front of us. It saw us and went back up enough to sail over the car. A camera like that would have been nice.

Rare sight for us on our drives around Door County because there are so many trees that we don't see these birds in the trees. What a great picture that would have been, full wingspan, aiming right at our car.

 

[Luanne]

Yep, there are a ton of Police everyday on that route.
I should mention that I have a visor mount and my new phone can take a picture by me just saying “picture”. I can just flip the visor to get other directions. Some pictures I have to edit a bit. May not totally count but it is hands free.

Thanks for this. I was going to post and ask how you could be taking pictures while driving.

 

[slip]

Thanks for the ride! I'm familiar with a good portion of your route. But I don't remember seeing the waterfalls and Aloha mural. Where exactly are they?

The mural is on Kalakaua a few blocks before where it splits into Kuhio on the Mauka side. I'll have to look back for the waterfalls to make sure we are talking the same picture. It could be the one with the statue of the fisherman fixing his net. That is right after the turn where I can turn onto Kapiolani from King Street.

 

[slip]

Thanks for the ride I agree! That Aloha mural, is that the side of Honolulu Coffee infront of Hawaii convention, Kalakaua and Kapiolani?

Yes, that is a better description of where it is. It is on the mauka side.

 

[DaveNV]

I know this route extremely well, and many points along the way. I lived just over from your warehouse in the upper Kalihi area, in Alewa Heights, when I was in high school. I took the bus to downtown Honolulu regularly, so King Street from Aala Park to Iolani Palace was my old stomping grounds. My dad worked in government offices in what is now the Aloha Tower/Fort Street mall. I walked to Waikiki many times from there, either down Ala Moana Blvd, or along King St/ Kapiolani Blvd, then down Kalakaua into Waikiki. Oh, to be 15 again!

Great pictures, Jeff. Thank you!

Dave

 

[DaveNV]

Blaisdell Center, formerly known as the HIC Arena, (Honolulu International Center), is where I saw many concerts as a teenager in the 1960s. The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, and a few others. It was great. When I saw Aretha Franklin there in 1968 or so, I remember my main floor, third-row ticket cost me a whopping $6.50.

Dave

 

[slip]

What kind of phone is that? I would love to have a phone that would take a picture so easily. I would have to remember to mount it for a picture, but still...

Three days ago we were driving our route to Egg Harbor, WI for lunch and experienced an awesome sight. We spotted a huge bird coming in for a landing and saw it's rear talons come down, and it was aiming right for the car. We realized it was a bald eagle after some carrion on the road in front of us. It saw us and went back up enough to sail over the car. A camera like that would have been nice.

Rare sight for us on our drives around Door County because there are so many trees that we don't see these birds in the trees. What a great picture that would have been, full wingspan, aiming right at our car.

That would have been awesome. I always loved seeing the bald eagles in Wisconsin.

My phone is a Samsung S20 FE 5G. I am still learning how to use everything but that feature is supposed to help with selfies. I know I have always had a hard time finding the button when I do those.

 

[slip]

Thanks for this. I was going to post and ask how you could be taking pictures while driving.

Ever since digital cameras, I just pointed t and shoot most of the time. Then just delete the bad ones. Same here.

I don't do this often at all. My wife will take them most of the time.

 

[slip]

Blaisdell Center, formerly known as the HIC Arena, (Honolulu International Center), is where I saw many concerts as a teenager in the 1960s. The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, and a few others. It was great. When I saw Aretha Franklin there in 1968 or so, I remember my main floor, third-row ticket cost me a whopping $6.50.

Dave

I guess that is when celebrities actually came here to perform and not just vacation.


Not used to the phone yet. It changed the spelling and I didn't notice. I went back and corrected it.

 

[dsmrp]

I know this route extremely well, and many points along the way. I lived just over from your warehouse in the upper Kalihi area, in Alewa Heights, when I was in high school. I took the bus to downtown Honolulu regularly, so King Street from Aala Park to Iolani Palace was my old stomping grounds. My dad worked in government offices in what is now the Aloha Tower/Fort Street mall. I walked to Waikiki many times from there, either down Ala Moana Blvd, or along King St/ Kapiolani Blvd, then down Kalakaua into Waikiki. Oh, to be 15 again!

Great pictures, Jeff. Thank you!

Dave

Yup nice pics Jeff. You might try a detour to Young's Fishmarket for Hawaiian food, laulau plates or buy individual laulaus. It's in a little strip mall at Kalani and Kohou sts, off of Waiakamilo. Also in strip mall are Kamehameha and Ubae bakeries, and Sugoi plate lunch ( garlic chicken, I'd call Sugou to see if they're open.)

Dave, I too took the bus to McKinley high school from Liliha street, and the route still turns into King Street at Liliha-Dillingham. Got off just past concert hall/Blaisdell center.

Sandra

 

[DaveNV]

Dave, I too took the bus to McKinley high school from Liliha street, and the route still turns into King Street at Liliha-Dillingham. Got off just past concert hall/Blaisdell center.

Sandra

Oh, Sandra, this is cool. I lived on the corner of Wyllie St and Rooke Ave, eight blocks Ewa from Liliha St. The #2 Bus stopped right across the street from our house. An easy 25 cent ride and I could be on the beach in Waikiki in a half hour. I spent a LOT of my weekend and summer days there.

Fun fact: When we moved from Kailua to Honolulu during my junior year, I didn't want to change high schools. I got a District Exception so I could continue to attend Kailua High School. I'd catch the Pali Highway bus from the downtown corner of King and Bethel Streets and ride over the Pali every morning. If I hadn't gotten the District Exception, I'd also have gone to McKinley. (Or was it Roosevelt? I don't recall.) Small world... Er, island.

Dave

 

[linsj]

The mural is on Kalakaua a few blocks before where it splits into Kuhio on the Mauka side. I'll have to look back for the waterfalls to make sure we are talking the same picture. It could be the one with the statue of the fisherman fixing his net. That is right after the turn where I can turn onto Kapiolani from King Street.

That's the one. Thanks.

 

[Lv2Trvl]

Good fun. Always enjoy your pics of the city. Mahalo!

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk