Traipsing About, Day Two (Covering Ground)

Thursday morning we awoke early, something like 7:00 am. A big surprise came from not being hung over, I took this as an omen and looked in the hotel guide for rental car services. Luck would have two of them inside of our hotel itself. We packed a bag full of day provisions and rented a car, our only requirement being that it had a CD player.
We ended up in something small and silver. Not fun to drive but cheap and we were able to listen to the recently finished rough mix of our album, Free Alongside Ship. From the hotel we drove to a music store which I had been in contact with about renting an acoustic guitar. I essentially told them I was just looking for something to play on the island, that it need not be very nice or full of features, they told me this was good because they had a lot of not very nice guitars. I ended up with one that sounded very nice when open strings were plucked, but of course I found out later the intonation was totally fucked, thus rendering chords above the fifth fret totally useless. Getting what I paid for we drove north on H1, on our way to the north shore.
The silver cars CD player opened it's mouth and accepted our album, the first notes of Ladyslipper rang out making me feel giddy and accomplished. The lush land made me feel lucky. Crossing the island took far less than we thought, we ended up at the far north shore by about 11:00, eating half a shrimp and crab sandwich while drinking beer by the ocean.
From there we drove to the northern most point where the rental car could go, any further and we would have had to drive on dirt, thus violating the terms of our rental agreement. Flipping One Hundred and Eighty degrees we headed south down along the coast, admiring our accomplishment and the turquoise water. We followed the coast for several hours, looking for things on our map that did not exist, and marveling at things that existed that were not on our map.
At some point we hit the H3 and cut back through the island toward Waikiki. We returned the rental car, purchased beer and went back to the room to change into some beach clothes. From there we found our way to the Mai Tai bar on the beach inside the Royal Hawaiian.
The Royal Hawaiian is in my opinion a must visit for a drink while in Waikiki, and if your at all fruity, have a pink palace, they are just so.
After plying ourselves w/ drinks and what not we decided it was time for a swim.
Having been for our swim we decided to shower and head out for some more drinking and what not. We hit angles first and then headed to Hulas, the most popular gay club on the island. My bartender at Hulas was a kind fellow named Chad, I passed him a Shitting Glitter sampler, he told me the DJ would be in later and he'd give it to him.
Finally the Dj arrived, at first acting a little look warm, until he apparently played the CD, then he came over and asked us which track we wanted him to play. We had him play Mondo Di Corpo. It was rather amazing watching people dance and enjoy our song. I even heard one person sing along to the chorus on the second time around.
We ended our second evening with a little night swimming, then going back to our hotel to drink beer on the balcony and fall asleep as the sun was coming up.