Tomorrow morning, if all goes well, we'll fly SEA-DEN-HNL on UA, overnighting in Honolulu before flying on Hawaiian Airlines the next day to Papeete. Where is that? Here. It's the site of an international airport (PPT) and our gateway to French Polynesia.
After that five-hour flight (in Economy, ugh) heading generally south, after our overnight at Le Meridien, we plan to take a 30-minute ferry ride to our ultimate destination, the Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort and Spa.
Most people have heard of Tahiti and Bora Bora but few have heard of Moorea. They are all among the islands that comprise the Society Islands. Expert travelers debate which among them is best for tourists but it seems they're all great.
We're staying on Hilton Points so the cost is minimal. Apparently everything is expensive so we may eat a lot of peanut butter while there but it looks as if it could be glorious six nights in this corner of Paradise.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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