Hawaii – Day #1
Hello and welcome to “Jeff’s Hawaii Travel Log.” I am in Hawaii supporting a Mayo Cardiology conference called Arrhythmias and the Heart.
Day 1 (Friday, January 28th) started out by getting up at 3:00 a.m. in order to catch a 4:30 taxi, to catch a 6:00 a.m. flight to Chicago. After landing in Chicago, we waited a little more than 3 hours to catch the flight to Honolulu, and then from Honolulu to Kona (on the Big Island), where the meeting is. The flight from Rochester to Chicago is only 45 minutes, and the Honolulu to Kona flight is about the same. However, the Chicago to Honolulu flight was about 8 ½ hours. I looked at my watch after about 2 hours, thinking we’d made some good headway – and found out that I had over 6 hours to go. My butt was already hurting!!
On the bright side – I did get a lot of reading done. On the other hand, I was expecting this book to last for the flight out and back, and I only have 70 pages to go, so I don’t think it’ll make it. I did bring some more books though, so I’ll be fine for the way back. Perhaps I need a Nook or something that will store hundreds of books at once :-)
As you can presume, we arrived in Kona safely, and it is off to bed. The one thing that I can tell you is that (so far) Hawaii is expensive. The Whopper combo at the Honolulu Airport’s Burger King was $9.50. If you ever plan to come to Hawaii – bring lots of cash for your meals!
Anyway, Saturday is a free day (to catch up on my jet-lag) so we will go exploring (“we” being me, and my co-worker Alec, who is also working on this program). Sunday is “set-up” day, and then the program starts on Monday.
I will keep you posted about our exploring, exploits and mishaps.
Say tuned for the next installment of “Jeff in Hawaii”!
Until then,
JBD
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