_uacct = “UA-3554536-1″;urchinTracker();After leaving Popai, we were eager to see all that the Big Island of Hawaii has to offer, since we hadn’t had the chance to venture much more than 15miles from where we were living. The first thing we did was head for Hilo to rent a car since the bus system, although [...]
Having established ourselves here on the Kona side of Hawaii, we figured it is time to actually show you around! We are staying at a local hostel, smack dab in the middle of the town of Kailua-Kona. In exchange for work on property improvement projects, we are given a room and a place amongst the [...]
As part of our trip around the Big Island of Hawaii, we spent two days in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The park, aptly named, is home to the world’s most active and largest volcanoes. Since there are active flows in the park, we only did a cursory read-up on the various trails available to us [...]
When we were remotely located, seemingly on the edge of the earth (but in reality on the edge of an island in the middle of the ocean), we occasionally felt trapped. The nearest town was 11miles away, the nearest road and mailbox was over 1mile away, and everything else was either in between or beyond. [...]
After living so remotely in a dingy corner of Hawaii, we were eager to see what else was out there during our week-long adventure around the island. And we knew that there would likely be a lifestyle dichotomy in the process. But knowing and living these changes are two different things! And seeing old things [...]
I just received this email from a friend of mine. It may have circulated the in-box world a few times over, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it and I quite enjoyed it. I hope you do too! A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided [...]
No….the nomad in the title isn’t me. While at the library the other day, an unassuming book jumped off the shelf at me. (One of the great things about a library: the ability to test run books you know nothing about written by authors you know even less about). And in the case of both [...]
Well, as it so happens on the river of life, we are moving along in our travels and away from our little paradise. In our time here we learned a ton of stuff about ourselves and how to treat the environment better. For example, you won’t ever see us without a hot box or a [...]
I remember as a child going to the library and happily walking out laden with books. I enjoyed perusing the narrow aisles and arbitrarily picking a book up that looked interesting. Best case scenario: I had a new favourite author and genre. Worst case: I didn’t like it so much and returned it before finishing [...]
The lava landscape in this part of Hawaii is quite unique and different. Kapoho is located on hardened lava that flowed as recently as less than 20 years ago, and at some point will probably flow again. As a result landscapes change, as do towns, societies, roads, and flora. It wasn’t until we showed somebody [...]
