Elysia and I don’t consider ourselves “foodies”, but we do love food. In particular recently, I’ve started to notice that I remember alot about a place or a holiday, by how the food was, cumulatively over the whole trip.
Our 4 days in Waikiki, as it happened, resulted in some [...]
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Monday, January 11, 2010
There were alot of things about riding in a helicopter that I didn’t expect.
It’d been on my to do list for so long…
I’d had one attempt – a helicopter tour through the Grand Canyon – foiled due to bad weather; another attempt over a volcano in New Zealand’s Rotorua [...]
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
After our time in places like Malaysia and the Philippines, I thought Elysia and I had seen every taxi scam in the book.
The broken meter… The missing meter… The excess surcharges… The longest route… The “Sure, I know where that is” lie… The negotiate-a-fare scams… The “I have no change” guy…
Just to name a few [...]
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
“I’m better than a tour guide… who knows what I am?”… “YES! A REAL Hawaian!”
That’s what he said. And then:
“Best Luaus on the island, who wants to know what they are?”… “Hands down, the best Luau on Oahu is at the Polynesian Cultural Center on the North Shore.”
That’s what he said.
Having been and returned, we [...]
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Monday, December 21, 2009
We had a driver on our shuttle bus from the Honolulu airport make us some, what turned out to be horrible recommendations for what to do and where to go while staying in Waikiki. The Wailana Coffee House being one of them, it was actually with some trepidation that we approached this popular Waikiki 24 [...]
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