ReSpOnSe To "MaUi No Ka Oi"

(Sorry about the title, just allows me to find my blog easier)

My response to "Maui No Ka Oi"-I like Maui, I was born and raised here and I like the laid back, chill, friendly atmosphere as opposed to Honolulu, where it's too fast and business are erecting wide and very crowded. O'ahu is not a "Hawai'ian Island" no more, it's more like a detachment of California. Now they are building more and more buildings and hotels and condominiums and clearing out beautiful, lush, greenery to make brown, gray and black atmospheres. As you all know I was Active Duty for the Army for 3 years and returned here as a Reservist to spend time with family and friends that I missed during the 3 years. I have traveled to many places, California, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Louisiana (New Orleans one year prior to it's demolishing conclusion from the hurricane), Canada, Illinois, Massachusetts, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Ireland, Kuwait, Qatar and lastly Iraq. During those times that I traveled to all these places, I got a little taste of the people, their behaviors towards me, the speed of development and businesses and the environment that each had and I admit, I had lots of fun in those places, alcohol, women and clubbing was the main things us Army guys was looking forward to after our immense training for the day, week(s) or 2 week periods out in the field. The weather in each area was very different so everytime I had to get climatized so I wouldn't become a heat casualty or have frostbite. After an 8 month period in Iraq, I got to go anywhere in the world for 2 weeks. I chose Japan and stayed there only for couple days just because I didn't have a passport and I used my military ID and spoke to them as if I was in the unit there. I then returned to Maui and got to go out, hang out with friends and just enjoy the friendly, great, happy atmosphere and how the people are so chill and not too much violence, it was heaven! So in conclusion, I would like to say that Maui is "no ka oi", the best, number one because of it's chill, laid back style and it's just plainly calm and I love it!