In honor of my first trip off of the continent of North America, I hereby inaugurate this travel blog. We are in Hawaii. Specifically, we are in a beach house in Waimanalo on the island of Oahu, and we are two houses away from the beach. Well, that's what the literature said, but I'm a mathematically rigorous type of fellow, and by my count we are three, not two, houses from the beach. There's our house, then the house next door, then the house across the street, then the beach. That's three. We're staying in the Sea Breeze Beach House and I highly recommend it. The story of why we're in Hawaii is an interesting one. Cheryl, a longtime and dear friend of the family, had a run in with a car while crossing the street ... read more