Friday, March 29, 2013

Lydgate - Another Favorite Walk

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Again I say, the beaches on Kaua'i are almost always virtually vacant.  Oh, one or two are - relatively speaking - crowded, but most are...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Only A Few Days Left on Kaua'i

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Can it be?  Have we already been here five weeks?  Total bummer!! Well, not ones to waste good time worrying over what cannot be changed, ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Life in the 1500's

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This is copied from a Facebook post.  There were no credits given, so I can't pass on the credit to you other than to say it's not...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Another Visit to Waimea Canyon

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I think that I would have to say the Waimea Canyon is Granpa's favorite place on the whole island.  The views are spectacular, it's ...

Nisei Soldiers and Their Texas Connection

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"Nisei" is a Japanese language term used for children born of Japanese parents in other countries.  This post is about the nisei w...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Rainbow Bark Trees

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Having spent over a year on the island of Kaua'i back in 2010 we searched out a lot of what there was to see then.  One, of course, expe...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Thar She Blows! Humpback Whales!

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The very first thing Granpa and I do is look for the whales! The humpbacks vacation from Alaska and the West Coast to Hawai'i during...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Blogging is not all I do...

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As Travelers, we stay in touch with our closest friends through Facebook.  These are a few of my recent status updates (without getting pol...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Hawaiian Digs

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Thanks to our agency, Sonotemps, for working out a "roof" for us.  It is greatly appreciated.  February is one of the high m...
Monday, March 18, 2013

A Touch of History for Hawai'i

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The Polynesians, of course, were the first to discover the Hawaiian Islands (only they weren't called Hawai'i until many centuries l...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Home to Texas and Off to Kaua'i

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Now it's a mad dash for home across mostly familiar territory, dropping down through Wyoming and Colorado, nick the corner of New Mexico...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Finally ... Mount Rushmore!

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This is it folks.  There's an interpretive center and a huge gift store, and there is this.  Granpa is delighted.  He apparently has ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Texas Fishin'

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Our grandson, Colt (named for the horse AND the gun), loves to fish.  If there's three drops of water in a footprint I think he'd th...

Wild Bill Hickok and Deadwood, South Dakota

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The most famous resident of Deadwood, Dakota Territory (South Dakota) In 1868, the U.S. government gave the Lakota Sioux ownership ...