Post #231268 by ikitnrev on Tue, May 9, 2006 10:25 PM

Well, all the west coast people have to do to reach the Marquesas Islands or Hawaii is to jump into the ocean and start swimming west, so there is a more immediate physical proximity for them. The east coasters have to jump into the Atlantic, start swimming south, and then veer through the Panama Canal, before reaching the same destination -- and so many people who might attempt this journey are not properly mentally prepared, and get sidetracked, and end up instead in Key West and Buffetville.

But just as the person who most appreciates a soft bed is a traveler who has spent many long and difficult hours on the road, the East Coasters might appreciate the final rewards of tiki more. But in this case, it might be the Midwesterners, who are the furthest from either ocean, who will thus appreciate tiki the best. Or those who live in the northern European countries. There is probably some Martian, or Saturnian, or Uranusian, unknown to any of us, who is the most dedicated of us all, who has the most amazing tiki/space age pad of us all.

Vern