So how was our Seabourn Odyssey 53-day cruise?  Depends on who you ask.  My companion loved the journey, and made a hold for a future trip with Seabourn.  I thought it was mostly fine, but a bit too long.  The fantasy baseball season began a month ago and my three teams started poorly.  However, two are now in first place and the third in second, so can't really complain.   The following are mostly my views. A huge surprise is my weight.   After we returned to Honolulu, went shopping at Marukai to purchase some o-toro sashimi for the 15 Craigside-supplied Pork Tofu for dinner and other items to enhance in-house meals, I added a large bento of curry rice/garlic chicken, with a goodly amount of fat-inducing macaroni-mayonnaise salad.   I thought this would be my last splurge before re-going on a diet.  I weighed 152-155 pounds the week I left Honolulu for Sydney nearly two months ago.  After that lunch with beer, I weighed myself, and had to repeat it three times.  For all that I ate

  We are this morning moored off Kailua-Kona, Big Island.   Yesterday was Lahaina.  I've walked through this town on numerous occasions, and drove past it more times than I can remember for golfing and stays in Kapalua and Kaanapali.  My remembrance was a hot and dusty sugar mill town, with an adjacent Pioneer Sugar Company. Well, yesterday, Day 51 of my cruise, might well have been the best yet, with only one more day to go in Kona.  Yes, I now use the term magical in reference to Lahaina.  Why?  Keep reading. A surprise to me is, by census standards, Lahaina is a widespread city, which includes Kaanapali and Kapalua.   All told, the area has a population of only 12,027.  However, this number jumps to 40,000 when you count tourists during the  high season , which is now--January to April--when the whales are most prominent.  Lele was an ancient name for Lahaina, which was the royal capital on the Maui high chief or king. King Kamehameha the Great conquered Maui and made Lahaina th