{"id":5726,"date":"2018-03-12T21:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T02:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:17:10","slug":"kauai-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/kauai-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaua\u02bbi, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Departed Saint Paul at 7:00 AM. Arrived in Lihue, Kaua\u02bbi, at 2:45 PM. The kids are in good hands with Sarah’s parents, to whom we are deeply grateful.<\/p>\n

Today was about arriving, picking up the rental car (Sarah convinced them to upgrade us to a Mustang convertible at no additional cost), driving up to the north end of the island (we rented a place near Hanalei Bay), buying some groceries, and settling into our treehouse (a cozy studio apartment perched on massive three-story pillars). See pics below.<\/p>\n

\"Ready <\/a>
Ready for takeoff! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Over <\/a>
Over the Pacific. <\/div> <\/div>
\"We'd <\/a>
We’d heard about the feral chickens and sure enough, this fellow greeted us at the airport. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mustang!\" <\/a>
Mustang! <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mustang!\" <\/a>
Mustang! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"On <\/a>
On the road… <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pacific <\/a>
Pacific view from the highway. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Dramatic <\/a>
Dramatic ridge. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"View <\/a>
View from our lanai. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Lizard <\/a>
Lizard in our kitchen reminds me of the chingchoks we had in Thailand and Singapore. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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Departed Saint Paul at 7:00 AM. Arrived in Lihue, Kaua\u02bbi, at 2:45 PM. The kids are in good hands with Sarah’s parents, to whom we are deeply grateful. Today was about arriving, picking up the rental car (Sarah convinced them to upgrade us to a Mustang convertible at no additional cost), driving up to the … Continue reading Kaua\u02bbi, Day 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,54,83,74],"tags":[92,51,13],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andrew","category-photo","category-sarah","category-travel","tag-kauai","tag-pictures","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180313_125429_028_edited-1.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8937,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/8937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}