On our way to Kauai today…Good hotel and dinner…
View from the lanai at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel. With horrible construction traffic all over Hilo, we were thrilled we'd arranged a...
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Moving day…Wow! What a lot of work!!…Time to unwind and relax…
A beautiful sky before sunset. With the family moved out and Tom and I now alone, yesterday we began the process...
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Aloha, Hawai’i! We’re settled in…What a view out the window!…Car rental wheeling and dealing…A fun photo from one year ago today…
Tom was checking out the views, up close and personal. Although yesterday's flight was only 37 minutes long, traveling from Maui...
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Preparations for the Big Island begins…Flight, car and lots more…
This looks like a Golden Orb spider we'd also seen in South Africa. Note the gold head and silver body. We...
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Safari luck in Hawaii…Today’s flights to Maui cancelled…Luckily we made it to Maui yesterday…Love the new place! Here comes Hurricane Ana!
The clouds have begun to roll in as Hurricane Ana makes her way to the islands. View from our lanai. Thursday...
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I forgot to upload this travel day post last night!…Written at the airport in Boston when heading to Vancouver…What’s the deal with that?
Oh, good grief. I'm bombarding our readers with posts. I wrote this at the airport in Boston and was sidetracked when we...
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Layover in Lisbon…Flight late in leaving Madeira…
Tom's fairly relaxed at the Lisbon Airport. Tom took this photo of me at the Lisbon Airport. The packing was seamless. Getting...
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More new road trip photos…Worried about flying?…A year ago…A procession in the neighborhood…Remedy for keeping flies away…
Map of the close proximity of Madeira, Portugal ("A" on map) to Algeria, where yet another plane was found this morning in...
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New photos from road trips…Annoying flight changes….Why?… A year ago…Sport cars driving up the hills…
We stopped along a beach to enjoy the views. So far we've booked 12 round trip flights from Minneapolis to Hawaii for our...
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A second booking in Fiji…Keeping it all straight…A year ago, puffy clouds in the mountains…
Photo of beach at our second Fiji house. After booking the house on the island of Savusavu, Fiji for 89 days ending...
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