On the island of Maui just off the road to Hana is the Ka’eleku Lava Tube. You can hike a quarter of a mile under the ground through one of the lava [...]

Traditional Hawaiian carvings at the Pu’uhonua o Honaunau (the Place of Refuge) National Historic Park on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Night time lava glow in Halema’uma Crater, Volcanoes National Park. The glow only becomes apparent after sunset.

Chain of Craters Road, Volcanoes National Park. The lava flow has blocked the road. I love the irony of the Road Closed sign sitting about 6 feet above the old highway.

This seemed like an appropriate picture for December 7th. The USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor on Oahu is a somber reminder of the price paid by sailors, soldiers, and marines in [...]

Visit Maui with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the 18th Annual Celebration of the Arts Festival at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua. The Celebration of the Arts is an annual event over Easter [...]

Visit Maui with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the winding road to Hana on the North Eastern shore of Maui with its cliffs, streams and waterfalls. In addition it shows two [...]

Visit Maui with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the Iao Valley and the Hawai’i Nature Center as well as a few of the beaches (Ahihi Bay, Big Beach, Maluaka Beach, Wailea [...]

This week I have been looking with the daily photos not at my best photographs but at some of the disappointing ones. We were on Oahu when I saw a peacock and [...]

We drove right by Bistro Casanova the first time without seeing it. It is located in an office building in downtown Kahului in an area not known for restaurants. Bistro Casanova opened [...]