In 1884, King Kamehameha V offered to sell a strip of land running from downtown Honolulu to Diamond Head to Mrs. Eliza Sinclair, a rancher’s widow from New Zealand, for $10,000. She looked at the …
Familiar Flavors Make for an All-American Send Off
Hawaii is an exotic landscape full of tropical flavors and we tried as many of them as we could during our time on Oahu. The food is as diverse as the people which means there is very little agreement …
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Polynesian Cultural Center Partnership
We really wanted to take our kids to the Polynesian Cultural Center. We often skip major tourist attractions and spend our time instead at local markets, community events, and daily living activities. …
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Where Do You Go to Quiet the Noise?
We sat on Sunset Beach last week gasping and cheering with crowds watching the HIC Pro Surfing Championship. After a particularly large wipe out session, one of the competitors was on the beach …
The All-American Myth – An Aloha Halloween
It’s 82 degrees! It can't be Halloween. The familiar voice inside my head kept pointing out all the differences between the experience of this Halloween versus Halloween past. My memory was cloaked in …
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Prepare for the Journey … Ride the Wave of Change
Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about. - Winston Churchill This week was the first real ocean swell of the season. Eager to show the kids big surf, we headed to …
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