The strap on my sandal just came apart. Good timing; I'll get some new ones in Hawaii. These were great while they lasted.
Not too much stuff left.
Carpet cleaner.
For the bedrooms.
They look great now.
Also window cleaners for the second story.
We don't have a high enough ladder to clean the windows on this side, but they did. They also bought the washer and dryer.
Taking some boxes to USPS.
I shipped one from the smaller post office in Spreckels, thinking they might not be so busy and therefore I wouldn't hold up as many people, but they were actually somewhat busy, there was only one clerk, and she didn't have much space to store packages, so she asked if I could take the others to the larger post office in Salinas. No problem, especially because I had printed shipping labels with a zip code that she said wouldn't work. I thought any post office would take general delivery, but I guess not; the only one in Honolulu that does that is the one near the airport. In the end, we shipped 11 boxes today.
Now time to take some last bits of garbage to the dump.
Not too much of a line.
There's a food truck there. Who spends so much time at the dump that this makes any money? Maybe the employees?
Household items area.
Dumping our stuff.
Back home to rip some old CDs Ogii has so we don't need to take the physical CDs with us.
I had replaced the furnace filter last week, so that's done.
Cleaning behind the oven.
And the fridge.
Even though I cleaned a lot, we still hired a cleaner to clean everything better. We hired the woman who cleans Ogii's office.
This was the oven after I cleaned it.
And after she cleaned it. I'm OK for lighter cleaning, but she cleaned stuff I didn't think could even be cleaned off.
We gave her the last of our cleaning supplies.
One last dinner.
One last night in our blowup bed.
Even though our phones get internet, we kept our home internet until today since it's faster.
Last breakfast.
Ogii giving the stove one last scrub.
All of the keys.
All of the garbage bins.
All that's left: blowup bed and bedding, internet modem, weight scale, power strip.
We had kept the scale so we could make sure all of our luggage was under 50 pounds so it would be free.
Ogii getting a little last bit of work done in her office.
One of the pictures we left there.
We had to make sure the gas was under a quarter tank to be shipped. I didn't want to drive around in circles in Oakland for an hour if we were over, so I ended up going too far the other way, and filled $10 of gas multiple times.
Every time we drive to San Francisco, we like to look at all of the animals in Gilroy by the highway.
In-N-Out is a California staple, so we had that for lunch. We also had The Habit to compare. We prefer The Habit, but In-N-Out is cheaper.
Dropping off the RAV4 at Matson.
There are some other cars going as well.
The hotel we were staying in had fresh cookies.
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo is still being played competitively in Japan by many people. It was released in 1994, so 30 years later, it's still going strong. That might be the longest any game is still being played competitively. And now you can watch the matches on YouTube.
Hey, I recognize that voice on Francisco radio station 99.7.
It's Greg. I used to listen to him in the mornings when I lived in San Francisco 20 years ago.
He and Fernando were hilarious.
Pretty short security line at Oakland airport.
That's where we're headed.
More over here.
Small kiosks.
Pretty walkway.
With a mural on the window.
The making of the mural.
I was a bit worried about taking the Mongolian instrument on the plane. However, people online said it was fine to put them in the overhead bins as long as they were under the maximum size allowed, and it was.
I was still a bit worried.
A guy beside us was taking his guitar, and it was about the same so, that was nice to see.
Boarding.
A lot of people in wheelchairs first.
We headed all the way to the back.
In hopes that there would be fewer people back there and more space in the overhead bins so the instrument wouldn't get damaged by other people's luggage.
It fit nicely behind this backpack.
And many people didn't even put luggage in the overhead bins, so we were fine.
I see at least a few of our checked bags getting loaded onto the plane; that's good.
Flying over the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier which is now a museum.
The Bay Bridge.
Alcatraz.
The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. Goodbye, California!
A neat little island.
Some good snacks.
Have to fill out this form on every flight to Hawaii from the mainland.
This time we're intended residents, not visitors.
Hello, Hawaii!
The tower says, "Aloha."
We all had to wait to deplane for a few minutes while some sheriffs did their business first.
Hawaii actually houses some of its prisoners in Arizona. I wonder if that's the case with this guy.
A local singer at the gate.
Me carrying a lot of bags.
The little park in the middle of the airport.
Aloha.
We got all of our checked luggage.
A neat picture.
I walked over to the lei stands.
This guy is pushing a lot of luggage by himself.
There are the lei stands.
They're making them by hand right now.
There are many different stands.
Ogii has her lei now.
She's doing some work on the airport's wifi.
And calling her dad.
Outside and ready to go.
Beautiful weather. Even though it says rainy every day, it usually only rains for a few minutes at a time, if that.
A mural of Diamond Head and whales.
Picking up the Prius at Matson.
It's in great shape. Our plan to ship the Prius a few weeks early, drive the RAV4 in California, ship the RAV4 right when we leave, drive the Prius for a few weeks in Hawaii, then pick up the RAV4 is working well so far.
It's fun seeing all of the cool buildings.
And murals. This one is of Obama.
This is one of our favorite buildings; very cool looking.
A building nearby has a huge mural of a whale family.
Our AirBnB for the next month. We applied for a couple of places we had liked when we had flown over a couple of weeks ago, but none of them accepted us, so we'll be here for a month, which gives us more time to find a more permanent place.
Lots of lock boxes at our complex. Many of the units are used for AirBnB.
Our fob was it pretty rough shape, little pieces were falling off of it, but it worked.
The AirBnB didn't come with a parking space, but I found a monthly space in a building right next door.
Kitchen.
It's a studio, but that's fine for now.
We'll put our luggage over here.
A nice little balcony.
Which looks at the building we had really liked, the Waipuna, the curvy one on the left, and Waikiki Landmark, the blue and red one on the right, which is the cool-looking one.
They have air conditioning.
A large semi-open area on a lower floor.
Which has the laundry.
Lots of seating and a pool.
A gift shop right by the entrance.
A food truck park is right across the street.
There are all different types of food there. Tacos.
Mediterranean.
Can juice.
Asian.
Shrimp and poke.
Even more down this way.
Angel wings.
We got some meat and a pineapple smoothie.
We can walk to Waikiki beach.
A few volleyball nets there.
The Hilton covers a huge area.
With a bunch of little shops.
Including ABC.
Cool sculpture out front.
A new grocery store is opening nearby. Island Country Markets is actually part of ABC Stores.
Inside.
But they're a bit more expensive, and we needed some other stuff for Ogii's work, like a table and a monitor, so we bought all of that, some food, and some household supplies at Walmart.