Even locals get up early to go to the Maui Swap Meet for fresh produce and floral bouquets. Hundreds of stalls sell everything from quilts to didgeridoos. Enter the parking lot from the traffic light at Kahului Beach Road.
Every Saturday from 7 am to 1 pm, local vendors set up shop on the grounds of the Maui Community College, across the street from the Queen Kaahumanu Mall. The front stalls (fruit preserves, macadamia nuts, coffee, handicrafts, fresh produce) are in orderly formation, but wander to the back and there are people with trunks of junk that seem to have just exploded wherever they could lay a tarp....