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 […]

A new day in Hawaii dawned and it was going to be the busiest day of the trip. Carrie, Allison and I were heading to South Point, which is the southernmost spot in the United States. We had other destinations in mind as well, including Place of Refuge and Volcanoes National Park, if time allowed. […]

Gecko’s dinner OK, if you’ve read the previous installments then by now you know the drill: we get up, eat a light breakfast and hang out on the lanai. This had become our normal island morning routine and it remained so today. Tuesday, or third full day, was one of the more relaxed days of […]