I know, I know. You’re itching to travel. That’s what you do for pleasure and for fun, and not being able to do your “thing” is making you crazy. Well, it’s driving me up the wall, too. Furthermore, by the time everything is back to . . . well . . . to normal, I’m…
I cant swear under oath that the following quotes are legitimate—they’re supposed to be some of the more outrageous complaints received by the venerable tour company, Thomas Cook Holiday. But having run the Complaint Department for the City of Honolulu and after living in a popular tourist destination for so many years, I would wager…
The Honolulu Advertiser was the major morning newspaper in Hawaii for many years. In fact, the paper went all the way back into the mid-1800’s. It has since gone the way of many of the better papers in this country, finally merging with the afternoon paper, the Star-Bulletin, morphing into the Star-Advertiser, and settling into…
I have always enjoyed traveling and the main focus of that interest has always been France. Considering what happened on my very first visit there, I’m amazed that’s the case. Many years ago — I was still a teenager — I was in Paris and made the obligatory visit to the Louvre. There was a…