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 […]

Well damn it all, yesterday I had to put my cat, Creepy, to sleep. Not only was Creepy with us for 17 years – longer than we’ve been married – but she was also the cat I had a real connection with. It’s been very painful and it’s painful again to put these words down. […]