Tag: travel
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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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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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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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RV Life: Weather Considerations
Oops. I’ve neglected this blog shamefully this summer. There’s a lot I could say (and will say, in a future post, hopefully) about the great time I’ve had in Tennessee and Virginia so far this year. But today I wanted to make more of an “education about RV life” type post regarding a very relevant…
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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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Wrapping Up 2024
So long 2024, and hello 2025! With everything that occupied my attention when I came home from my travels in September (the passing of my pastor and friend Ted Law, getting back into the routines of stationary life in Houston, and taking care of the small accumulated repair/ improvement projects on my RV), I never…
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Water in the Wilderness
Tonight’s blog entry is going to be a little bit different. I will tell you about my visit yesterday to White Sands National Park, the last national park on my schedule for this year, in just a little bit. But first I feel the need to write about what else is going on in my…
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