Four trails, one close to each of our neighborhoods, and the reason to be at the trailhead early. The best hour of a Maui day is the one most visitors sleep through.

When Something Breaks Things break in every home, including the one you rented for a month. Here is what happens next.

Four days, October 1 to 4, at the War Memorial Special Events Complex in Wailuku. It is the ninety-ninth, and last year more than a hundred thousand people came through the gates, on an island of about a hundred and sixty thousand residents.

Almost everybody books seven nights. Not because they worked it out, but because a week is the unit people think in. Seven nights is what a holiday is, so seven nights is what goes in the booking form. Then a strange thing happens, which we hear about constantly. Somewhere around day five, people start saying the same sentence to each other on the lanai. *We should have come for two weeks.*

The Car Question Most people get this wrong in one of two expensive directions. Here is the real answer.

The Side of the Island Nobody Sleeps On Twenty-five minutes uphill from the beach, the whole island changes temperature and character.

People plan the middle of a Maui trip in detail and leave the first day entirely to chance.

Nobody flies to Hawaii in September. That is not a complaint. It is the entire reason to come.