We took a little puddle-jumper over to Maui, our last island, on Friday morning.  Just a 9 seat prop-plane and we had our requisite exciting moment of a sudden drop in altitude, but that was far out-weighed by mom's squeals of joy of seeing several whales cruisin' in the waters below us. Mom twisted my … Continue reading Maui

Island #3!  The Big Island!!  And at more than 2x the size of all the other islands combined it certainly is huge, so we decided to conserve some driving time and fly into Hilo on the eastside and fly out of Kona on the west, 3 days later. Hilo once had dreams of being the … Continue reading Big Island

view from our hotel We arrived at our hotel about 12pm but unfortunately our room was far from ready. Luckily we had the arrival day scheduled as a pool day so we dug out our bathing suits & books from the luggage in the car and plopped down on the lounge chairs for the afternoon. … Continue reading Kauai

Our first island paradise is soon to be a memory. We've spent the first 3 nights of our vacation (from our vacation!) in Waikiki, Oahu, and now it'll be off to Kauai tomorrow. It's my first visit ever to Hawaii and mum's first in over 25 years so we planned a little sampler trip to … Continue reading Oahu

Mum and I are off to Hawaii for 2 weeks!!  The first stop however, is San Diego where we will overnight tonight in advance of our morning flight to Honolulu.  We whiled away this afternoon touring the grand Hotel Del Coronado, then supped on the veranda watching the sun drop into the Pacific.  Ah, bliss.  … Continue reading Adventure Continues: Hawaii!!