My mainland friends think the weather here in Hawaii is perfect all the time. The truth is, it’s perfect most of the time in most places. Here on Maui, we have micro-climates in different parts of the island. It can be raining hard in Ha’iku where I live, and tourists will be lying on the…
Paul Gauguin spent the last dozen years of his life in the islands of French Polynesia and it’s the art he produced there for which he is best known. Three decades ago, I traveled to those islands four or five times because my advertising agency had hotel clients on Tahiti, Huahine and Bora…
On my first trip to Tahiti, the flight from Honolulu arrived late at night and my first real look at that exotic island had to wait until the next morning. I was staying at the Hotel Taharaa, which sits on top of a cliff and when I woke up and pulled open the curtains, the…
The weather here on Maui today was mostly sunny, with temperatures in the upper 70s where I live at about 1000 feet elevation. Down at sea level it was probably four or five degrees warmer. There was a nice breeze. Our trade winds blow out of the northeast probably 350 days of the year. So…