Blogs from Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 31

Hi Guys Well as promised here are a few pics from the end of our week in Hawaii. Maui is a much prettier island, in fact they call it the Garden Island. We took a trip along the Road to Hana which is a clifftop drive along the north-east coast of the island. Very pretty drive, but very slow - Americans just aren't used to small, windy roads! We stopped and took some photos at Keane pt which is about an hour along the drive - here the waves pounded into the rocks creating some fantastic sights and sounds, breaking over the volcanic lava rock. We then drove up through the clouds to the summit of the volcano, at about 10,000 ft. We actually cleared the top of the clouds... The next day we flew back ... read more

This was our fifth vacation to Oahu, Hi. We stayed at the Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikiki. It was our third stay at that hotel. We love it there. We ate at Duke's Canoe Club one morning for buffet breakfast, and we had rented a car for a couple of days to sight-see on our own.... read more

We woke up at the crack of dawn on Monday 3 July 2006 and Shane's parents kindly drove us to the airport. After the usual tears, photos and hugs Shane insisted we head to customs and leave home behind us... Christine was body searched at customs (haha just kidding), but was really fortunate when they didn't drag her off for a body cavity search after finding suspicious looking scissors in her hand luggage! After Chris was tested for 'explosives' (and Shane thinking who is this girl) we headed towards gate 51 to await our flight to Honolulu. Christine finally built up enough courage to visit the 'lavatory' only to walk in on a gruff American guy doing his business. After going red and having a quick peek, Chris eventually closed the door and the American felt ... read more

Woke up too early - 7.30am!! Laid in bed thinking: 1 Realised that beer is actually fairly expensive in Vegas - a beer costing $6 = ￡3!!! Hostel is $3 a bottle - better, but still not cheap! 2 I also decided I definitely need a watch! With no mobile phone on me (no need if it doesn’t work in US). 3 Also thought about how I had travelled so far from Oxford and met a Guy called Steve from Botley, Oxford. He said he often drives through Yarnton on the A44 to see his parents. Made me think about all those hundreds of people that pass you everyday on your way to work, etc and how he could have driven past me on the A44 without either us having a thought about one day meeting ... read more

Well Hawaii, What can I say? Looking around this magnificent land I am quite simply overwhelmed! On one side the well documented, booming, tourist trade - bubbly, extreme, ALL American tropical paradise and on the other, a georgeous polynesian culture fighting and fighting well to keep from completely assimilating into the mega power that is americanisation... I suppose it is probably appropriate to mention that this trip was specifcially an O'ahu experience, apologies for the genralisations to anybody who has delved somewhat deeper into the other islands and accompanying culture. Shamelessly enough though, I certainly soaked up my fair quota of tourist life while here, how couldn't you?! As luck would have it however, I did also have the absolute pleasure of being given a little snippet of inside island life due to my wonderful island ... read more