Blogs from Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 5

It turns out, that America’s 50th state is also our 50thstate! What a joy to be able to round off the states together. Growing up in Colorado but with a summer home in Maine, meant that many road trips were taken crisscrossing the continental United States. Some of these trips were taken as a whole family, four of us in our VW van, while many were taken just my dad and me. I have fond memories of singing along to musicals, playing with my dolls in the backseat, naming the states from the border around to the inner states from memory, visiting family, and picking out a fun activity or sight to visit each day. After our family trip to Alaska a few years ago, we only had ... read more

Helicopter to see the volcano. Pix follow. We leave tomorrow for Kauai.... read more

This is a new travel site as the other one went belly up. Seems it only took us a few years to kill it. So we'd like to test drive this one while we are in Hawaii. We've fingered a few unfortunates to serve as Guinea Pigs, and you are among them. Lu, we lost Gary's email when the previous travel site died. Would please supply it? Mary Jane, we hope it is okay with you to serve as a Guinea Pig. As our first post we'll briefly review a trip to the northwest of this very large island.... read more

Day 7 Serenaded by the sounds of nature.. rain on the roof, coqui frogs, crickets and bird noises were heard all throughout the night. There was one bird that had a call that just didn't stop and felt like it was right outside our window. At first it was cute by 3am I had reached for the earplugs and was like 'fuck this nature shit' (Sorry mum..i can't control what my thoughts think ?) When I got up though the view of our little rainforest from our window greeted us and I was all back into my happy hippie self. We embraced our inner hippy completely that morning, bathing in rainwater and running naked through our private forest ... its what you do isn't it? ? (sorry kids/fam) A breakfast of Spam, yes Spam in a ... read more

Day 4 When on holiday it is important to sleep in and that's exactly what we have been doing. Its so nice to be lazy and do things on your own time, no real agenda, make it up as you go along.. Pineapple and coconut pancake mix with maple bacon and syrup for brekky... needed to be tropical when in Hawaii. A few little critters joined us for breakfast. Gold dust geckos, a bright green gecko with red markings on its back covered in small gold flakes (hence the name) an introduced species from Madagascar who feed on ants and other bugs but also have a sweet tooth. We gave them a bit of syrup soaked pancake and watched (photographed and videod) them licking the tasty morsel. Both of us get excited when we see native ... read more