{"id":4295,"date":"2013-06-16T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T00:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2013-06-16T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T00:00:16","slug":"travel-review-may-21-2013-return-flights-to-san-francisco-via-kahului-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=4295","title":{"rendered":"Travel Review: May 21, 2013: Return Flights to San Francisco via Kahului, Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had to get an earlier start this morning than usual on our return to San Francisco from Hawaii. \u00a0United Airlines had temporarily discontinued mid-day departures from Kona International Airport direct to San Francisco, so we had to fly from Kona over to Kahului, Maui a couple of hours earlier to catch the United flight from Maui direct to San Francisco. This meant no departure\u00a0morning breakfast from Island Lava Java. \u00a0Instead we grabbed a quick bite from McDonald’s \ud83d\ude41 [sc:clickview]
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\"Rather <\/a>
Rather Calm Morning Seas before we depart the Sheraton Kona Resort at Keauhou Bay <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"As <\/a>
As we head upland towards the Hawaii Belt Road, for the first time this trip, Hualalai is clear of the clouds! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Kona <\/a>
Kona International Airport at Kehole: The open air boarding area, limited covered seating, and all old-style ground ramp boarding to all planes! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Our <\/a>
Our Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 717 to take us to Kahului, Maui <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Molokini <\/a>
Molokini Island, as we approach Maui <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"South <\/a>
South Maui and the rising slopes of Haleakala into the clouds <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Our <\/a>
Our United Airlines ride to San Francisco (Boeing 757) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"I <\/a>
I had a Rolls Royce for a seat partner! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had to get an earlier start this morning than usual on our return to San Francisco from Hawaii. \u00a0United Airlines had temporarily discontinued mid-day departures from Kona International Airport direct to San Francisco, so we had to fly from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigisland","category-hawaii-2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}