For my recent trip to Australia, I flew down to Sydney and back on Hawaiian Airlines. As always, a very nice trip … excellent crew and very good service (which...

It’s a recurring phenomenon with me: a feeling of melancholy during the last few hours of any long distance train journey. It’s happening again as I finish a last drink...

I found this photo on another blog. Don’t know who the photographer is or when it was taken, but I do know what we’re looking at: private jets parked at...

This time of year, when the U.S. mainland is on standard time, there is “only” a five-hour difference between Hawaii time and East Coast time. (When Daylight time is in...

We encourage friends and relations to come here to Maui for visits, but we also do our best to warn them about coming during the winter months. The weather can...

Once sugar was king here in Hawaii, with plantations on all of the main islands. Today? It’s a much different story. There are just two left, one on Kauai and...

Some quick impressions from the two flights today: First of all, the flight from Maui to Honolulu was spectacular. A gorgeous, clear day with what can only be described as...

We have a new law here in Hawaii that will require all newly-built residential homes to have solar water heaters. Rough estimates are this requirement, which takes effect in 2010,...

“My advice is to buy land, because they ain’t making any more of it.”— Will Rodgers Well, not so … at least not on the Island of Hawaii, the largest...

I live in a part of the island that us locals refer to as “upcountry.” It’s rural and pretty far off the beaten path for tourists. This afternoon I stopped...