In a short space of 36 hours, we experienced the best and worst of Sea Turtles, Cheeseburgers, and Car Alarms.
Having completed the lion’s share of the Open Water Scuba Diver’s course in Edmonton (thanks to a terrific birthday present from Kelly), I had a nagging need to finish my certification by doing the required [...]
We woke up this morning shivering. It was so cold! When we checked the thermometer, we were actually a little embarrassed to be dressed in long johns and kvetching about the cold, since it was 20 degrees (Celsius) out!
How quickly we acclimatize…
And then when we turned on the radio, we heard that the VOG rating [...]
When you live in a world where you can pick plentiful fruit off the tree and eat it right away, drinks take on a whole new meaning. And the bartenders in Kelly & I are having a field day coming up with new mixology masterpieces. Here are a few made from off-the-tree ingredients to whet [...]
Here we sit, Kelly reading his book and I writing furiously. Well, I’m not so much writing furiously, as being furious whilst writing!
See, just when we thought it was safe to sleep soundly at night; just when we figured that our last middle-of-the-night centipede attack was a rogue and uncommon event; just when we settled [...]
Every Sunday morning at 10am at Kalani resort there is an event called the Ecstasy Dance. An eclectic selection of dance music is played for the 100 or so attendees, and the cost is a donation of whatever people can afford – generally $5 or $10.
We had heard about this event, and figured we’d [...]
Every day here we see, smell, and hear more signs that we are in a completely different place from where either of us have ever ventured. Even just the other night, the ocean sounded substantially different from previous nights (without any different weather patterns to change it), and it put us on edge. As we [...]
Just in case anybody was wondering, the Hippie culture is alive and well here in Hawaii!
We were invited out for an evening at Coco (short for Center Of Conscious Openess), a small retreat/studio where the musician Tina Malia would be playing. Tina Malia is apparently a world-renowned singer/songwriter whose music can be categorized [...]
SIDE NOTE: This post was written on November 6th. This entire side of the island has been without internet access for over a week, and they’re repairing it on “island time”. Them’s the breaks of living in paradise! Over the course of the last week, things have continued to improve, and although posts have been [...]
This is the ferro cement yurt where we live. It is approximately 20ft in diameter, which may seem small, but truly (and especially with all the space on the property, which you’ll soon learn about) it’s all we need!
The front door stays open all the time. Such is the world where there are no security [...]
One of the wonderful things about tropical Hawaii is the lack of typically evil tropical critters. Critters that are poisonous, or gigantically grotesque, or both.
On land at least, there is a distinct absence of such critters. The worst we were told about were some nippy spiders, as well as the dreaded centipede. Although venomous, [...]
