A few years ago a group of us, seven to be exact, went on a Hawaiian Cruise. Since I had lived in the islands for close to five years I was the un official tour guide. We had a great time both on the ship and each of the islands we visited. The only negative of the trip was the casino problem, it never opened. We were told that the ship had a casino, which it did, but this particular ship, due to it being of Hawaiian registry could not open their casino. We played cards between ourselves during those times of intense need for gambling. The woman at the agency that sold us the cruise did not know of the casino problem until we told her, naturally she was apologetic, but it was too late.
Each island we visited we rented a van and I being the designated driver also became the tour guide which I really enjoyed. It had been over 20 years since I had been back but other than some new buildings and one way streets, not much had changed. We saw all the advertised tourist attractions including my old haunts and where I used to live. On Oahu we drove around the whole island and Vic, one of our companions kept using the word AZOI whenever he saw something unusual or extreme, such as the windmills on the way to the north shore. I even took them to Schofield Barracks, where I was stationed while in the service.
We tried deep sea fishing on the big island but caught nothing but a beautiful day out on the ocean.
However, also on the big island HAWAII we made a discovery. We found the AZOI tree which we named for it being a WOW or one of a kind. This unusual tree had macademia nuts growing from it, chocolate covered and on half of the branches were bananas. We had accidently found something rare. As we drove around and told people about our discovery very few believed us, but a few actually did. We explained where we had seen the tree so they could see for themselves.
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