After packing up my bike I got worried as I mentioned earlier. So off to Longs Drugs I went. I had remembered that in their travel section they’d had a travel scale for under $10. Just under as I recall.
I could have gone the luggage shop at Ala Moana, Bag 'n Baggage. I recall an ad from them about a much nicer scale than I bought, but alas, it has a much nicer price as well.
The upshot of all this is that my bag comes in at almost exactly 50 lbs. I’m going to take the pedals out and put them in my carry-on to see if that drops it to just under 50 lbs. As I said, United is…expensive. For me, given the date of my purchase it would be $100. Had I purchased my tickets more recently, it would be $175. Ouch.
Enough of this though. For some reason the word “antipodes” came up on my screen the this morning.
From Dictionary.com:
an⋅tip⋅o⋅des
/ænˈtɪpəˌdiz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [an-tip-uh-deez] Show IPA
–plural noun
1. places diametrically opposite each other on the globe.
2. those who dwell there.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L < Gk (hoi) antípodes lit., (those) with the feet opposite (pl. of antípous), equiv. to anti- anti- + -podes, nom. pl. of poûs footRelated forms:
an⋅tip⋅o⋅de⋅an /ænˌtɪpəˈdiən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [an-tip-uh-dee-uhn] Show IPA , adjective, noun
I had an idea I knew what it meant and I wasn’t far wrong. It’s literally the other side of the world. In my case, living in Honolulu, the location is somewhere in Botswana near Ghanzi, the “Capital of the Kalahari.”
I found out the location using a Google Map derivative at the:
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I learned a bit more at PRI’s “The World” site. Here’s what I’d see.
It’s flat so biking might be all right for me. 
Aloha!
