E-510 60mm 1/200 f/4 iso 100

Love affair with the common domestic sedan continuing, this time with the 2010 Chevrolet Malibu, a brand-new (five-miles-on-the-odo-new) car I got to spend two weeks and a little over two thousand miles with recently.

Week and then some to come, I’ll touch on some of the things about the Mal’ I thought were just wonderful, along with of course the things I thought were, well, mal about the 'bu. Don’t buy one on this brief recommendation, but if it’s a rental you need and a sedan you want or have to have, mad props to this bit of Camry-competition, where for thousands less you get a Camry-like experience without all the unintentional acceleration and resultant recalls, suspended sales, congressional hearings and possible felony charges.

Didn’t really get into it here when departing aside from the gone fishin’ thing, but I’ve just returned from Hawaii (yes, there again, roll eyes as necessary) where, after many visits I have finally finished the island of Maui. No kidding, I’ve been everywhere and done everything and love Maui though I do I don’t anticipate returning there for a number of years to come - I have Oahu just started from the last trip a year and some ago and Kaua’i still awaits my first call. Maybe next time I go to Maui will be the time I just stay forever.

Like the rental car there is more to come about the journey, illustrated of course, maybe including accounts of a horrendous amount of fine-dining, hanging off cliffs in cars on roads where no one ever goes, sunrises, humpback whales, humpback whales and sunrises, dolphin swimming, luau tales and fire dancers, the green flash at sunset more than once, and menehune shores. And my 42nd birthday, which was just absolutely fucking disgustingly awesome.

And back to the 2010 Malibu sedan. And then there were helicopters. Film at 11.