Tag: adventure
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Stocking Up and Swimming with the Fishes
Wednesday was our travel day from our VRBO rental in Hilo to the one in Kona, which is really only a drive of a couple of hours, but we stretched it out with sightseeing along the way. Our first stop was the farmer’s market in Hilo for fresh produce and lunch. We got mangoes, corn,…
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Hello, Hilo
On Friday night, I caught an overnight flight from American Samoa back to Honolulu (arriving just in time for sunrise), connecting to a Saturday morning flight to Hilo on the southeast shore of Hawai’i’s Big Island. My parents picked me up from the airport, as they had already arrived a few days before and Margaret…
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Talofa, American Samoa!
I landed in American Samoa late on Wednesday night. The airport experience was a bit representative of American Samoa’s peculiar relationship with the U.S. as a whole. U.S. citizens arriving in American Samoa from a U.S. airport still have to go through immigration, present their passports, fill out a customs declaration form, and have their…
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Strolling Through Storms
I’m sitting in my RV listening to rain drum on the roof… the first clue that I’m no longer in my “home spot” under a carport. As a matter of fact, I am currently at Frog City RV Park in Duson, Louisiana, at the first overnight stop on a four-day trek to Tennessee. I broke…
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