Thursday on the Big Island was a big day: we were heading to the top of Mauna Kea, a whisker below 14,000′ elevation. First, we apparently needed another vehicle. Almost all of the car rental companies specifically list in their contracts that you may not drive on Saddle Road, which roughly cuts across the center […]

Time for the second photo gallery, before its size really gets out of hand. This series will finally be drawing to a close next week, after a few more posts and the final gallery. Mahalo!

Amazing color of a South Point Wave After the long drive, we’d finally reached the start of South Point Road. With all of the stops along the way, it had taken us nearly 3½ hours to cover the 90 miles to get there. It was clear now that not only was Green Sand Beach not […]

Please excuse another brief departure from my Hawaiian trip series, to compare some embedded geo-sharing solutions. I am, after all, a sucker for maps & GPS data. I’m trying out three different website services which allow you to share your GPS tracks with other users. One is MotionBased, which is based on Garmin maps since […]