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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More amazing vegetation…What’s a Monkey Pod?.. A village visit in the rain…The magic of Life..
The massive short trunk Monkey Pod tree we found in the village of Wailuku on Saturday. Yesterday, we took off at...
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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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The cost of booking rental cars in Hawaii for almost 7 months…Two days until we “sail away”…
This is a Pangolin, one of the most elusive animals on the planet, seen by very few. Perhaps, someday when we return...
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Hello, London!…The Eurostar from Paris under the English Channel…The hotel peculiarities…Tom’s reprimand!…
Our train came into the station. Tom, my railroad guy, explained that the train is operated from either end never having...
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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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