Revisiting
Lahaina, the old capital of Hawaii/Carlos Pueblo
I was lucky
to keep on asking people for the public transportation
at Maui and
hopped on a bus to Lahaina, the old capital of Hawaii.
I had had a
good memory from my first Hawaiian trip some 20 years
before at
this Island and Lahaina was one of the impressed village.
The public
bus is on the back of the Queen’s Mall where we watched
a Polynesian
dancing a day before. The bus tours the same route Hwy
30 south and
turned north toward the coastal line. I can see the old
Marriott
timeshare project becoming a busy harbor and also a famous
golf course
on the elevated slope of a hill. Beaches along the coast are
developed
for visitors and busier than my memory. I could still see the
newly closed
sugar factory similar to my hometown in the southern part
of Taiwan.
Nobody
remembered Mr. Ching’s ice cream store even though I recognized
Immediately when
we got off the bus. It’s the same old shopping center;
however, the
stores were rearranged. I kept on asking Ching’s grocery store
with a gas
pump on the road side toward a winery most of the youngsters
don’t know.
Ching told me that there was collection of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s
stay at Maui
when he first arrived Maui and before he went to Honolulu for
high school
back to the late 19 century. I had had plenty of time at that time,
yet my
search was in vain.
Lahaina is
very attractive on the beech line Front Street. I found that old
Cantonese
Temple with a better housekeeping and a new statue of Sun donated
by his granddaughter
Sun Tsui-fang. The village is much busier than before. We
visited an
art gallery for a little while chatted with a well learned sales clerk. On
our way back
to the ship, I noticed on the inside of the street, inside of the village,
there were
some classical attractive frame building which I should visit next time.
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