We spent today sunning on the beach swimming and just being nice and lazy!  The weather was again 85 or better and the sun was scorching here 20 degrees latitude below home.   Makes me think of the Jimmy buffet song – “Changes in latitude, changes in attitude” – if we could only spend more time [...]

The road to Hana is a bit of legend around here.  The locals all talk about how “adventurous” the drive is to Hana.  There are over 600 curves and more than 50 one lane bridges and most the the drive is along a drop off into the ocean.  Yeah, it’s fifty some miles into the [...]

We took a nice horseback ride up into the mountians this morning.  The view was pretty amazing and the horses were decent – I mean they pretty much stayed in line, which is all I ask.  To me a good horse is one that goes on autopilot and lets me take pictures without having to [...]

Wow!  What a view!  10,000 feet above sea level and we can see the sea from here!  We arrive on the summit at  6:00.   45 minutes later the sun would come up and we’d see the why the call it Haleakala – “The house of the sun”.  The temp is about 40 degrees and [...]