Hawaii Travelogue 8 – Oahu Round Two: Pearl Harbor

Our final half day in Kauai and the return trip to Oahu don't rate their own post, so I will include my few remaining comments about that part of our trip with our first day back in Oahu. For our last meal on Kauai we decided to "pop over" to Waimea to check out the...

Hawaii Travelogue 7 – Waimea Canyon

It was still cool and rainy,  and we'd been awakened three nites in a row by torrential downpours with fierce winds (usually around 2 am) and roosters (promptly by 5 am).  However, every morning there was a beautiful rainbow right outside our door, which I guess is Kauai's way of encouraging you to shrug off...

Hawaii Travelogue 6 – Kauai

Our day was supposed to start with a flightseeing tour of the island, but the iffy weather prompted the pilot to call it off.  I appreciated the fact he didn't want to take our $ for a less than scenic flight.  However, it would have been nice if they'd told us the tour was cancelled...

Hawaii Travelogue 5 – Northern Kauai

We headed out on Hwy 50 to 56N to explore the eastern and northern sides of Kauai.  Miss Becky was leading the way with her magical book of all things Kauai.  Our first stop was at Opaekaa Falls in the Nonou Forest.  You view the falls from an overlook on Hwy 560 (Kuamoo Rd).  As...

Hawaii Travelogue 4 – off to Kauai

I now have a new least-favorite airline:  Go! Airlines, or as I think of them, No Go Airlines.   We chose a flight to Kauai on Go! to arrive at the same time as Tom and Becky got in from CA.  A week or so before our trip, Go! changed the time of our flight...