Tag: hawaii
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Park #44: Haleakalā National Park
I’m behind on blogging as usual (I’m actually back in Texas now), but I need to do a catch-up entry on my 44th national park, Haleakalā on Maui. My trip to Maui was quick, with a flight over from Hilo on Saturday morning July 25 and a return to Hilo on the evening of July…
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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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Park # 43: Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park (and Mauna Kea)
We devoted Monday to visiting Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, home of Kīlauea, the most active volcano in the world. Kīlauea has been in an active eruption pattern since December 2024, with eruptions of 7-24 hours every 1-3 weeks. Like all of Hawai’i’s volcanoes, it is a shield volcano rather than the more explosive composite volcanoes…
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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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Aloha Oe
For our second full day in Hawaii, we took a glass-bottom boat tour. There were “wells” to see through the glass bottom, which let us see a little bit of coral and fish, but honestly we got a better view over the rail of the spectacular Honolulu shoreline. We saw the famous Diamond Head and…
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Aloha!
Time to resurrect this blog, even though I am not traveling in my RV this year. I’m still living in it full time, but for now it remains parked in Texas. That’s because this year I decided to knock out three national parks that can’t be reached by RV: Volcanoes National Park on the Big…
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