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Hotel Wailea in Maui

jape — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:17:47 +0000

Hotel Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

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Back from Maui

jape — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:09:24 +0000

We arrived home this morning around 7am from our red-eye flight from Hawaii. The first class cabin was comfortable enough to get some sleep in, but it wasn’t very comfortable sleep, so we both took a nap when we got home. Since waking up I haven’t done much today; I just had some cleanup to do around the house and some updating to do online on some blogs. I also am writing some reviews on the last couple of books that I read and will be posting them to my reading blog over at www.readingrookie.com

From the Maui trip, I have some additional photos and a couple of videos to post. I’d love to hear comments on them.

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Maui – Road to Hana

jape — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:37:06 +0000

Yesterday we drove the road to Hana, which is a 33-mile-or-so drive up a road through a mountain, which snaks along the edge of the island on the North-North East edges. It took aboout 3 hours to drive the 33 miles trip, but that was due to severral stops for photos and the limited spped limit, and of course the tight turns where youy have no choice to but slow down. It was a very fun drive overall, but tiring. Emily and I both took some good photos wwith oour phones. I made the mistake of leaving the media card for my camera at home. Rookie mistake, I know, but these days I don’t consider myseelf a professional photographer. I’m not sure I ever reaally did. I am an avid amaateur, with 20 years experience.

Today is beach day. We have noothiing planned but to lie on the beach. Tonight we are taking in a L

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Arrived in Maui

jape — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:04:56 +0000

We arrived in Maui last night, it was about 8pm Hawaii time which made it around midnight Dallas time. It took about 30 minutes to drive to the Hotel Wailea where we will be stayiing this week. Emily went right toi sleep because it was late for her, but since I’m used to being up late with my current work schedule, I stayed up and watched a bit of TV and also started a new book.

Today we’re probably just going to chill around the hotel and relax oon the beach. This hotel is pretty cool the way it is laid out; its rooms are all separated into cabin-style buildings, and each building is spread outookseach. jhhthat looks down oon the beach. Its almost like bungalows I guess.

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Blogging Down the Highway…

jason — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:41:18 +0000

Right now I am sitting in the passenger seat of our Ford Escape, and Emily is driving us to Palo Duro Canyon for a weekend camping trip with her running club.

So far this morning I have updated 2 of my blogs, registered a new domain name for my Cigar Blog, and I am now writing this post. All from the Verizon Aircard service.

I am told there isn’t any cell phone service in Palo Duro Canyon, so I don’t think I will be able to blog again until our trip home on Sunday. I’ll take some photos and upload them during our drive home.

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Bardog Tavern, Memphis

jason — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:44:15 +0000

Our last night in Memphis was last Monday, Oct. 4. We picked a restaurant just around the corner from our hotel called Bardog Tavern. I liked the name, which was the main reason we tried it . The place was somewhat small and narrow, much like you would find at a pub in London. The had a good variety of food, and excellent service. I had a Spaten Octoberfest on tap, which was my first time to try this beer. It was quite smoother than the Sam Adams Octoberfest that we have around DFW. I was told about Spaten by a friend some weeks ago, so I have been looking forward to trying it, and this opportunity at Bardog seemed like a good one.

For dinner I had the Meatball Hoagie. It was homemade meatballs, provolone cheese and parmigiano. It was quite tasty and I ate every bit of it.

If you have a chance to stop at this location in Memphis, I would recommend it. They have several beers on tap, good prices on food, and a laid-back and friendly atmosphere. It seemed to be a very popular place with the locals, which is always a good sign.

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Local Gastropub, Memphis

jason — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:02:49 +0000

Yesterday for dinner, we ate at the Local Gastropub on Main Street in downtown Memphis. They have a nice outside patio area that is basically right on the street, facing the trolley tracks on Main Street. It consists of several tables and patio umbrellas. Inside the door, the pub is a long and narrow room with a bar area on the right and seating in the front two sides, and also along the left side wall. The table along the left side wall is a long community table where you might sit next to someone you don’t know, but last night the crowd wasn’t very large, so we had part of that community table to ourselves.

Their menu consists of typical bar food. I ordered Buffalo Wings with their homemade buffalo sauce. Unfortunately they didn’t serve ranch dressing, but the waitress was nice enough to offer me some Hidden Valley Ranch that they had in the refrigerator for another dish they serve. The wings were quite good, however their flavor very closely resembled the Medium Flavor at Buffalo Wild Wings. Luckily for me, this is one of my favorite flavors at BWW, so I didn’t mind these wings at all. I was also able to sample Ghostriver Pale Ale, a locally brewed beer from Memphis. The pale ale was a bit more hoppy than I care for, but the flavor was good, consisting of an apricot and hops taste.

Overall, this was a very nice place to visit. I look forward to returning on our next trip. The food was good, and the service was great.

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Blues City Cafe, Memphis Barbeque

jason — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:02:48 +0000

Yep, we’re in Memphis again for the weekend. We arrived at 5:30pm this evening, took a half hour cab ride to our hotel, unloaded our bags, and walked down to Beale Street. During our last trip a few months ago, we ate at several places, and Blues City Cafe was our favorite for ribs. We couldn’t wait to get back and try them again.

I also had a cup of their gumbo tonight, something of which I commonly do at new Cajun, Creole or Seafood restaurants. I am pretty sure that I got the gumbo last time I came to Blues City Cafe, but I honestly couldn’t remember if it was good or not. Which usually means it wasn’t, because I should remember a good gumbo. But I decided to try it again, and I was glad that I did. It was a quite spicy, and had a good rue to it, although it still isn’t the best I have had. My wife says the rue takes a long time to cook, so most places tend to skip it. But regardless, this gumbo was very tasty.

After the gumbo, we shared a full rack of ribs. These ribs are the “wet” ribs, as they are called here, which basically means that they have sauce on them. It is BBQ sauce, but not the same kind you find in Texas. Honestly, Memphis BBQ is quite better than Texas BBQ. I am sure I will end up catching some flack about that statement later. However, I really do like Memphis BBQ much better. It has more variety and they tend to smoke the meat more out here than they do at home.

Tomorrow we are going to try a fried chicken place we ate at last time also. And perhaps a breakfast restaurant tomorrow or Monday. I will blog about those later.

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2010 Fortner Roundup

jason — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:31:58 +0000

This weekend is Emily’s family reunion at Lake Brownwood. Right now I am sitting in the motel room (it’s actually more like a cabin at a church camp, but resembles a motel room) and I am connected to the wifi connection that they broadcast here at the park. Some say I am addicted to being online, which is why I take my laptop everywhere. I would disagree with this statement though, because as soon as I can afford the surgery to implant a wifi transmitter in my brain with an image projector that I can see through the back of my eye, I won’t need a laptop anymore. So obviously, I am not addicted.

www.fortnerroundup.com

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Trip to Hawaii, Final

jason — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:48:51 +0000

We are sitting at the airport on Kauai, awaiting a flight to Honolulu. Its only a 30 min flight, then a 1.5 hour lay-over, and a First-Class flight from Honolulu to LAX. From there we have a 2.5 hour lay-over and then a 3 hour flight home from LAX to DFW.

The trip has been very fun. I will be uploading photos, some here and some on my Photo-Reflect site, in a couple of days. Watch for them.

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