Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright, Hawaiian Christmas day! That’s the island greeting that we send to you from the land where palm trees sway. Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright, the sun to shine by day and all the stars at night. Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii’s…
I am a sand connoisseur. I like to roll sand between my thumb and fingers, squeeze it in my fist, examine the grain in the palm of my hand. I examine the size of the grains, then compare it to the slope of the sand into the water (the finer the sand, the more gradual the slope)….
Lava was the point of this trip! Chris had some time off between deployments so the four of us island-hopped to the Big Island for some volcano viewing. Our flight from Honolulu to Hina was delayed so we arrived in Volcanoes National Park after dark. We checked in to the Kilauea Military Camp cabins and zipped…
Santa arrives in Waikiki—how else??—via canoe, so we scrambled into the car early Saturday to see! Unfortunately, we sat in traffic so long that we missed his arrival completely. We listened to Christmas carols on the ukulele and watched the lovely hula dancers at the Outrigger Hotel, but I was disappointed we missed the main…
“Let me tell you why I am here today,” Yosuke Matsuzaki said before the whiskey part of the Blackened Canteen Ceremony. Yosuke Matsuzaki is the son of Lt. Mitsuo Matsuzaki, a pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew Cdr. Fuchida up around and above Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Cdr. Fuchida was the…
“Eloise, what do you want for Christmas?” “Christmas season!” “Yes! And on Christmas morning, what do you want under the tree?” “Christmas season under the tree…?” “Do you want presents?” “Yes! Presents!” “What do you want IN the presents?” “Hmmmmmmm I want presents.” Now, those are expectations I can meet! There will be presents! This is…
November is the first month in Hawaii’s wet season, or ho’oilo—literally “changing season.” I agreed it was time to change out my beloved blue table and chairs after a second chair broke apart. They had a good run. I replaced it with this Hawaiian acacia set and I love it! I was afraid a whole…
