Friday. Our last full day of vacation. Forecast: rain. Looking at our options, we decided to take an easy drive to check out the north side of the island. Carrie’s folks had been through the small town of Hawi soon after we’d arrived and had recommended it. Since relaxing on a sunny beach wasn’t an […]

Part ten! I’ve rarely had ten posts in a month, much less in a series. And this is the 13th post this month, making it my busiest blogging month ever. The evidence is clear – I really need a new job. So there we were , a few dozen yards beyond the visitor center on […]

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!