Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Waterloo is about 20 minutes from our house in Brussels. Driving south, you can’t miss the giant Butte du Lion rising up over the gently undulating farmlands. The Dutch king erected it in the spot where his son, the Prince of Orange, was wounded in the Battle of Waterloo. Here on June 18, 1815, the…
I feel super clever right now. I finally fixed an ongoing issue that prevented me from uploading photos to my blog from my phone. This has been hassling me for years! FOR YEARS. The key is whether it KEEPS working now, eh? Clearly we are living in a hotel. It’s freakin freezing outside (to us)…
Diamond Head was named for something sparkly someone thought might be diamonds. News flash: it wasn’t diamonds. Hawaiians had already named it something more sensible: Le’ahi, which is the shape of the head of a fish the volcanic cone resembles. Anyway, the second namer discovered at some point that all that flashes and sparkles in…
Happy Independence Day from Lana’i! We arrived in Maui last night and took the Expedition passenger ferry from Lahaina to Lana’i this morning. Like old whalers and missionaries from the 1800s, we enjoyed sailing through the Lahaina Roads and seeing these islands from the sea. Rainbows danced in the spray the boat sent flying. Bright…
One benefit of living in Hawaii is that all our squadron mandatory fun events are at glamorous old hotels in Waikiki. And we get to enjoy it with lovely friends, acquaintance, and frenemies. One of the junior officers started lobbing rolls. Now here’s a stupid human trick I have—I have surprisingly good aim. So I…
When we get invitations to events at the Official Residence of the Consul General of Japan in Honolulu, we say yes! Noh performances, taiko drumming, karate demonstrations, sake, beer, Japanese food—yes! The setting sun shone through pineapple rain as the taiko drummers made raindrops dance on their drums. Little mists exploded with each reverberating BOOM….
Test blog post from my new phone….will it be a pain or a joy?
