I love to write. I love to tell stories. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’ll keep telling a story over and over, adjusting it each time to make it more interesting. The challenge is to embellish the story content without affecting the underlying truth. Every one of these stories is 100% true…although the details may have been modified for the purpose of clarity.
- Hawaii 2024 – The Voyage Home February 17, 2024<Details Coming Soon> We may not have seen it all, but we came pretty darn close! ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Kona Coffee February 16, 2024<Coming Soon>
- Hawaii 2024 – Goats, Kona, and the Great Bag Hunt February 15, 2024Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You pack a couple suitcases for vacation, and you stress out about coming in under the magical 50 pound bag limit. So you pack two suitcases. One is 40 pounds. The other is 48 pounds. That leaves you some room for some souvenirs ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Valentine’s Day February 14, 2024Valentine’s Day had one planned event. Dinner at Ulu Ocean Grill – a beachfront restaurant at the Four Seasons resort. We went a little early to check out the vastly overpriced shopping at the resort. Then we moved to the bar to have a few drinks while we waited for the restaurant to open. ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Akaka Falls February 13, 2024The Big Island has eight distinct climate types (out of a possible 13). There was still one that was missing from our tour of the island. We were missing the tropical / rainforest. And if you want to see that, you need to cross over Kohala and follow the north-eastern coast to ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Volcano February 12, 2024On Monday, February 12 we embarked on our farthest-ranging adventure yet. A nearly complete circle of the island. Punalu’u Bake Shop The Punalu’u Bake Shop, the southernmost bakery in the United States. They sell the local version ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Deja Vu February 11, 2024Ever since we arrived on the island, Becky had a side-quest to replace the Hawaii sweatshirt she had purchased on our last visit. In all the shopping we’d done, we found a few sweatshirts, but none that she liked. The one sweatshirt she had seen, that in retrospect matched her enthusiasm for the ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Hawi February 10, 2024On Saturday, we took a spin around the oldest volcano on the Big Island. Kohala is the northwestern tip of the island. On one side, is the desert of the “Kohala Coast”. The top is often shrouded in white fluffy clouds which are formed by the moist air of the northeastern rainforest ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Top of the World February 9, 2024The Big Island of Hawaii has a lot to see. Tons of things. But there are a few items that are definitive destinations one should see at least once. On Friday of the first week, we visited one of those sights: the Observatory at the top of Mauna Kea. ...
- Hawaii 2024 – Hapuna Beach & Mauna Kea Resort February 8, 2024On Thursday, Mike and Sara had another day of golf, while we wandered the local beach area. We pretty much spent all day in the Hapuna Beach and/or Mauna Kea Resort complex where our condo was located. There was a lot to see. ...