Black lava rocks lying beside bands of turquoise water are right up our (#beachgoth-loving) alley, but after a few days of beach hopping in Kona, we wanted to feel a bit more...
Where in the world have we been these past few weeks? Good question. What we thought would be a one-week-or-so-break ended up stretching for a month, and we're sorry to leave you hanging! Ryan and I have been traveling (to Kona, Hilo and Seattle; not bad gigs),...
“The Polynesian voyages are probably the most epic journeys ever undertaken by man,” says Mike DeMotta, the assistant director of horticulture at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. We're in Kauai, and he says this by way of introducing Ryan and I to the two dozen...
“This place is classic Hawaii,” the guy tells us from across the pool table at Stevenson’s Library at the Grand Hyatt Kauai. He’s a local and has been coming here for years. For Ryan and me, this is only our second trip to the hotel...
Boarding happened in record time. The first rows were called at 10 AM, and all passengers were boarded — with seatbacks and tray tables in their fully upright and locked positions — by 10:12. “This isn’t the flight you want to miss,” the gate agent said as she scanned...
"What's your favorite tree?" Several trees come to mind including our own Feijoa sellowiana (pineapple guava), but I've had this banyan tree in my mind for almost three years since my 2010 business trip to the Westin Moana Surfrider in Waikiki Beach, Oahu. Planted as a...