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…
Hawaiian Airlines first started flying back-and-forth among these glorious islands in 1929. Its first airplane was an amphibian and carried a grand total of eight people. That was then. Today’s Hawaiian Airlines has a fleet of more than 40 jet aircraft and literally flies all over the world. In addition to hundreds of flights a…
I recently had to hop over to Oahu for a day and just passing through Honolulu International Airport was enough to remind me that people over pack when traveling. Why in the world would a young honeymoon couple need four huge suitcases coming to a place like Hawaii for a week? After all, T-shirt and shorts…