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.

South Maui Fish Company sits in the Aloha Open Marketplace on South Kihei Road. Family run, fish off Maui boats, and they will cut and clean fillets for you while you wait.