Are you sick of reading about Hawaii yet? I sure hope not, as I still have to tell you all about our brush with Pele on the Big Island and the crazy dancer-like spa treatment I had inside a pool INSIDE A LAVA TUBE. But first, let’s mix it up a bit and hop on [...]
Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
April 27, 2011 By 31 Comments
Toward the end of our time on the Big Island, we went on an outing with Hawaii Forest & Trail. The company is one of the biggest adventure operators on the isle and offers a number of different excursions—from volcano treks to coffee plantation tours. But we had another focus entirely: waterfalls. It’s funny that [...]
The Land of Fire & Water
April 25, 2011 By 19 Comments
I knew nothing of the Kohala Coast before we visited. In fact, my fatal error during my first visit to the Big Island in early 2007 was booking a vacation home just south of Kona. Don’t get me wrong, the place was nice—and, most importantly, cheap—but the area couldn’t hold a candle to the wind-blown [...]
On the Road Again: Our Next Big Adventure
April 24, 2011 By 86 Comments
If you’ve been following my Tweets at all, you might have caught wind of the fact that we’re about to take off again…but this time for six weeks straight. (I know, I know…back from Hawaii for all of three days and already we’ve begun packing for the next trip! If it makes you feel any [...]
Photo Friday: Hapuna Beach, Hawaii
April 22, 2011 By 20 Comments
As much as we would have preferred not to, we eventually had to leave the Fairmont Orchid. Luckily, it was only to go down the highway to Kohala Coast’s Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel. While not as luxurious as the Orchid, the Prince caters more toward families. Rooms were definitely more modest—i.e. basic, no frills—but clean [...]
A Paddle in Pauoa Bay
April 20, 2011 By 21 Comments
Our trip to the Big Island was a little bit of work, a little bit of leisure; this meant, we actually did have meetings and site inspections daily and weren’t solely left to our own devices to lounge on the beach all day, every day (which is very much how I would spend any true [...]
Paradise Found
April 18, 2011 By 38 Comments
I don’t often dedicate full posts to a single hotel—namely because this is my personal collection of stories and anecdotes, and not an online travel guide—but I’d be doing all future Hawaii goers a serious disservice if I didn’t pause to pay homage to the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island. We arrived in Kona [...]
Introducing: Brenthaven (and an Earth Day Giveaway!)
April 17, 2011 By 36 Comments
You may have noticed this site is slowly adding advertisers, the most recent of which is one of our favorite travel gear companies, Brenthaven. We have been getting dozens of requests weekly for placing ads, but are extremely choosy and turn down most unless they make sense with our readers (you guys) and what you [...]
Photo Friday: Kohala Coast, Hawaii
April 15, 2011 By 38 Comments
I usually don’t blog about a destination when I’m actually still in the place, both for security reasons and also because it takes me awhile to process everything—photos, videos, experiences—once I return from a trip. But I’m having such a great time in Hawaii, I’d thought I’d go ahead and share a few snapshots from [...]
Flying Down the Frenchman at Keystone
April 13, 2011 By 13 Comments
It feels weird to write about snow when I’m currently sipping POG juice on my lanai at the Fairmont Orchid in Hawaii, but California and Colorado are having such record-breaking snow seasons that I’d be a terrible travel writer and blogger if I didn’t urge you to take advantage of a spring ski holiday one [...]
