On the Road: Top 5 favorite places to eat on Maui

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I've been meaning to write this post on our favorite places to eat in Maui for weeks now, and while we returned from Maui at the start of November, it's suddenly January! How did that happen?

So without further ado, some recommendations for great places to eat on Maui, in no particular order. Many of these were also recommended by our favorite guidebook - Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook.

On the Road: A tourist's view of Maui, Hawaii

For work (and lots of play) we ventured to Maui in October. It was a nice quiet time to go, and I would easily go again. It's unlike any other place in the United States.

A little late, but here are some shots from the places we visited on Maui:

At the Fairmont Kealani Maui - I took this when we were going to Nick's Fishmarket,
a fine dining restaurant there.

Finally, the courage to fly: Ziplining in Maui

One of the platforms at Piholo Ranch. In the end the
suspended bridge up to the platform was
scarier than ziplining itself.

“1, 2, 3 …”

I stood there – or rather hung there in my harness – with no intention of letting go and flying. I had just watched three other couples fly down the zipline, but somehow my feet wouldn’t leave the platform.

“OK, let’s try again,” the 20-something leader said. “1, 2, 3 …”

Nope. At this point I was shaking. I comfort myself that I was not the only one terrified. One of the girls who went before us was scared, and she’d gone skydiving before. Not even tandem. Said it was nothing – and yet she was scared of ziplining. Made me feel better and worse at the same time.

I was up on that ziplining platform at Piholo Ranch in Maui because my husband badly wanted to zipline while we were in Hawaii. I had always wanted to zipline, as well, per my 40 by 40 goals, thinking it was a good way to face my fear of heights and my fear of falling without having to skydive or bungee jump. Because I would be tethered to a cable via a harness, I felt it was the activity that was the least likely to go awry.