Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Hawaii on Mar 19th, 2016
Today, we headed for the southern side of the island. We started out by picking up some coffee and malasadas (a Portuguese hole-less, yeast donut that has been embraced as part of the cultural stew that comprises Hawaii after successive waves on immigration). The donuts were pretty good: very reminiscent of my family’s German fasnacht […]
Posted in Hawaii on Mar 18th, 2016
The morning started with breakfast, a bit of packing / repacking, dropping of the rental car, and checking in for our slightly longer flight to Lihue, Kauai. Although the distances aren’t great between the islands, you lose approximately 1/2 a day unless you fly out really early in the morning or really late at night […]
Posted in Hawaii on Mar 17th, 2016
This morning we woke up early to drive the Road to Hana (R2H), which is a narrow, curving, single-lane bridge festooned roadway to (unsurprisingly) the town of Hana on the lush, windward side of the island. I sort of vaguely remembered it from childhood (having not paid especially close attention to driving conditions as a […]
Posted in Hawaii on Mar 16th, 2016
Like yesterday, this morning started with a work-related phone call followed by breakfast. I also discovered that Hertz overcharged me (by double!) for my rental car… and the Hertz customer service folks really pissed me off by not being able to correct it immediately, refusing to let me talk to a supervisor, and telling me […]
Posted in Hawaii on Mar 15th, 2016
I’d been spending my early morning hours doing some work-related activities, but today I found work to be a bit more consuming then I’d otherwise planned. Nonetheless, I managed to grab breakfast with Libby and Emerson and head to the beach with them for a while. After the beach, they went to lunch without me […]