Post #517819 by Kailuageoff on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 5:53 PM

What truly inspired us was the first fully-realized home tiki bar we were ever lucky enough to be invited to - TikiMaxton and Maggie's Castaway Cove in Portland. That and visits to various "real" tiki bars over the years gave us a vision for the Honolulu Lounge.
That first home tiki bar visit - which started with a meet and greet Maxton put together at the Alibi Lounge -is what emboldened us to do more tiki traveling, including pushing Tim and Christie (and poor Ford) to organize the first Hukilau in Atlanta. Funny how tentative we all were about meeting people we only knew via the internet back then. In fact, I am smiling because we have just returned from a weekend visit with Mr. and Mrs. NeptuneTiki at their palace of Witco in north Florida. Yet another example of how tiki traveling has made our lives much better for the great home bars and tiki collections we have been able to visit and the fantastic friends we have made over the past ten years or so.
KG