There’s an interesting story in the on-line newsletter from Travelers United about people fainting on airplanes. It’s happening more and more and a combination of factors seems to be the...
I seem to spend a lot of time planning my travels. Not so much the flights, of course. As long as I’m heading east from here, I’m pretty well limited...
By now just about everyone has heard of the false alarm we had here. Just after eight o’clock yesterday morning, cel phones all over the state went off and this...
Mainland friends are surprised to learn I have never flown on Southwest Airlines. I probably never will, even though they’re planning to start service between the mainland and Hawaii sometime...
The little town of Kailua is on the opposite side of the Island of Oahu from Honolulu. It’s now essentially a suburb–a bedroom community–but 50-plus years ago, Kailua was mostly...
That’s a very common saying here in Hawaii. Locals learn it early because their parents preach it constantly when they’re at the beach. They know that they can be happily...
No matter where any of us live, we occasionally find ourselves in a rut. And that often means we’ve slipped into a mindless routine and forgotten what it was about...
OK, this is going to upset the Hawaii Visitors Bureau, but we have had terrible weather here for days. No … make that weeks, and it seems like a lot...