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Snow in the Bay Area in April!

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Hey kids, grab our sled! There was snow on the ground when I left the office in Fairfield.  It's not much, but it brings me back to snow-heavy days of my childhood in Chicago. [post_ads]

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Maui, Hawaii • 2011-03-29. There are no 'Filipino Strength' t-shirts in Maui: How a family vacation and a search for local threads birthed the PinoyBuilt brand. Filipino-American, Pinoy Built, Maui, Lapu-Lapu, Filipino Strength MAUI, HAWAII • MARCH 29, 2011 There are no 'Filipino Strength' t-shirts in Maui Who wants a Pinoy Built t-shirt? Bridging the gap between island inspiration and cultural identity. My family and I are vacationing in Maui for the first time, and like any good traveler, I went in with a mission: to find the perfect shirt. I planned on getting 'FILIPINO STRENGTH' t-shirts, just as I had done when I had vacationed in Oahu. But I quickly found out that those specific tees are only available in Honolulu. Lapulapu, first Filipino hero. A potential PinoyBuilt logo? • Photo © J.F.R. Perseveranda. 🇵🇭 Tagalog WOD Lakas: Strength. In the diaspora, our...

Jian & Nica - Road To Hana

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  The Karate Kid Part II - Live or Die? Scene

Road To Hana - Fruit Stand

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The Road To Hana - From Lahaina The  Hana Highway  (colloquially referred to as  The Road to Hana ) is a 64.4-mile-long (103.6 km) stretch of  Hawaii Routes 36 and 360  which connects  Kahului  to the town of  Hana  in east  Maui . To the east of Kalepa Bridge, the highway continues to  Kipahulu  as  Hawaii Route 31  (the Piilani Highway). Although Hana is only about 52 miles (84 km) from Kahului, an uninterrupted car-trip takes about 2.5 hours to drive, since the highway is very windy, narrow, and passes over 59 bridges, of which 46 are only one lane wide. [5]  There are approximately 620 curves along Route 360 from just east of Kahului to Hana, almost all of it through lush,  tropical rainforest . Many of the concrete and steel bridges date back to 1910 and all but one are still in use. That one bridge, badly damaged by erosion, has been replaced by a portable steel ACROW bridge erected by the...

Wailele Luau: Diana, Jian & Nica

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Jian loves luau!

Drinking Blue Hawaii's - Westin Maui Resort

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Chesca & Tess - Wailele Luau

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The Westin Maui Resort & Spa’s Wailele Luau