Honolulu Stories


Day 3 – Trolley / Diamond Head / North Shore

Took a trolley to Diamond Head, where we went hiking to the top and was rewarded with an amazing view. My sister (from Alaska) and her (native Hawaiian husband) were here at the same time and picked us up and dove us to the North Shore to visit Giovanni’s shrimp truck and Matsumoto’s shave ice. Unfortunately we were not advised in advance that Hawaii ...


If it’s April, can August be far away?

Quoting from the last entry of our “Paris – Fall ’09” journal, posted on 11/15/09: “Our immediate personal concern is that we have no return visit to France on the calendar for the first time in a few years. Our home exchange in the southwest has been scrapped due to the pending sale of the B&B we were to have visited, so 2010 will be a year of focu...


Down to Four -- Not Months or Weeks, but Days!

We are still technically in Honolulu, but our heads, minds and hearts are already in France. Touch down in Paris is on the 21st; we leave Honolulu in only three days. Just about everything is packed except for the inevitable last-second additions, but we essentially were finished two weeks ago. Even Doug got into the get-it-done-early mood set by Len...


More Hawaii Living.....

This is getting out of hand -- our laxness in posting to this "travel" journal about our home territory Honolulu. So we're gratuitously uploading this short blurb so we have somewhere to post the photo taken at the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. The famed House Without a Key bar has superb entertainment right next to the ocean, and it's THE place for su...