This story is probably 40 years old, but it’s timeless in terms of its message. The incident occurred at the Honolulu airport and was witnessed by Rick, a stock- broker friend of mine. He happened to be next-in-line at the PanAmerican counter, where he overheard a passenger giving the ticketing agent a very bad time. …
I’m starting to plan my next trip and—no surprise—there’s a fair amount of train travel involved once I get to the Mainland. Of course any traveling we do that takes us beyond these lovely islands requires a commercial jet flight. The closest destination is Los Angeles in southern California and it’s a five-hour flight. In…
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 to either American or Hawaiian Airlines since I’m in their frequent flyer programs. There’s a pretty good selection of destination options, too … even from…
I arrived in Hawaii on May 1st of 1962. It’s amazing how different things were that long ago. Along with military spending and agriculture, tourism had been a significant component of the Hawaiian economy for several decades, but it was really starting to take off in the 1960s. Two events occurred in 1959 that…