Halloween is easily the greatest of the big North American holidays – EASILY. Granted, I’m not a big fan of the other holidays, so it wasn’t a very close race. Tonight’s going to be jam-packed, since Em and I have a lot of places to go and people to see, and most of it in [...]

There were a few earthquakes this morning on/near the Big Island – one with a magnitude of 6.6. The good news is that we’re on Kauai, and we slept right through it. We didn’t even know there’d been a quake until this afternoon, when a shopkeeper asked us if we’d felt it. Power’s been out [...]

It’s 22:15 Hawaii time, and we’re back in our hotel room on Kauai. Today (Saturday, October 14th) is Em’s birthday! Early this afternoon we took a helicopter ride out to an otherwise-inaccessible waterfall pool for a little dip. Huge fun, even though it was pouring by the time we made the return flight. I’ve got [...]