“Oh, that plumeria lei smells good,” said the mainland tourist. “Tuberose,” said the native Hawaiian woman, one of the most scented fragrant flowers on the islands and so beautiful too. Within minutes ...

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 ...

The Arizona Memorial is a somber place and one appropriate to remember on Memorial Day. 1177 crew members lost their lives on December 7th, 1941 when this battleship was sunk. Most of ...

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 ...

This is a transcript of an episode of the Amateur Traveler focusing on traveling to Oahu. Travel to Oahu, Hawaii – Episode 184 Show Notes More blogs posts about Hawaii More podcasts ...

We rented a house on the North Shore just outside Hauula which would sleep 9 people. It was said to be “27 girly steps” from the beach. It seemed to me to ...

Liz headed off to do her last class to be scuba certified. Joan went alone to snorkel from the boat and take some video of her diving using our underwater video camera. ...

Liz was scheduled for a beach dive today which is the next step on the way to her scuba certification. Most of the rest of us headed to Diamond Head to hike ...

Six of us got up and headed to Pearl Harbor to see the USS Arizona memorial. We had been told to get up very early to avoid the long lines but this ...

Liz got up early to dive to start the process of getting her scuba certification while the rest of us headed to Hanauma Bay for our own close encounters with all things ...