HIGHEST PACIFIC POTTY
"Get A Head"

Our non-digital, print pictures finally dribbled in and included our potty pictures. In answer to our concern, Ranger Dave at the Mauna Kea visitor's center (see MAUNA KEA REPORT post, October 20) told us that there was a facility at the summit, "The highest johnny in the Pacific." After all, the excitement of achieving a new U.S. High Point can affect one's bladder. What-to-do and where-to-go when ya gotta go? Sure enough, it was there and belonged to the KONA LUA company, their slogan, "Get A Head." It was lashed to an observatory utility building. Whew, good thing this high up, hey?

And, not that we've taken up collecting job johnnys, on Maui along the Haleakala Road, we encountered a beauty that begged to be photographed. Outwardly, it was just a johnny but, inside was to die for (as portable toilets go - see pic). The shiny, streamlined papaya-colored innards included the usual, plus sink, soap and towel dispensers, foot flush/drain-pedals, a light, a mirror...and it was ultra-clean! Had it included a shower, we'd get one of these things and convert our home bathroom into a walk-in closet.