MORNING GLORY It’s your first morning on the island. You wake up comfy in your villa’s fresh white bed and glance at the clock: 6:11 am. You are just awake enough to calculate the time difference back home (8:11!) and [...]
You’ve just flown into Lihue Airport from the mainland with your family, and as you steer your rented Jeep through Maluhia Road’s spectacular Tunnel of Trees, you find yourself turning up the volume on the Bluetooth. Your Ziggy Marley tune [...]
You can think of few things more romantic than a destination wedding and thankfully your fiance loves the idea, too. Destination weddings can be expensive, however, and there are many moving parts, so choosing the locale wisely is vital for [...]
You’re daydreaming about Kauai . . . again. You’re craving the lazy warm days, turquoise waters, sea turtles, big mai tais, friendly locals and well, big mai tais. You think 2020 may be your year to return, but you naturally [...]
In an early scene in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster, Jurassic Park, two official jeeps filled with visiting scientists pull up to the imposing fire-lit gates of, well, Jurassic Park. As the gates swing open to let the visitors drive through (and [...]
“Yahtzee!” your spouse yells -- his voice booming from your lanai up through the palm trees and into the blazing blue sky. And though you are sorry to lose this game, he pumps both his fists with such glee you [...]
The morning sun is on the rise and you are eager to get to Poipu Beach to swim and read and snorkel. But right now all of your attention, heart and soul are focussed on the steaming mug of Kauai-born [...]
Your local Kauai friends couldn’t wait for your visit. They met you at Koloa Landing Resort soon after you checked in to catch up over a round of Mai Tais in the gorgeous lobby at sunset. When you asked them [...]
"You can have more fun with a flower behind your ear, a Mai Tai in your hand, and good friends." - Trader Vic Mis-Shaken Identity Ah, the poor, misunderstood, misinterpreted, mistreated Mai Tai. It’s enough to break a rum lover’s [...]
Waimea Canyon is known as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific”, a nickname long credited to beloved American author Mark Twain. But after a little research you and your spouse discover that it was NOT, in fact, Twain who dubbed [...]
