Travel Journal
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Captain Cook, HI to Na’alehu, HI
Just as I was about to get some sort of breakfast started, there was a knock on our door, and our hostess appeared with two plates of food for us! “Breakfast” might have been in the AirBNB listing (though despite being responsible for one of the “B”s in the name, that’s incredibly rare), and if… Read more…
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Kailua-Kona, HI to Captain Cook, HI
Our original plan for departing Kona (before the ocean bashed and sliced us up) was to ride to camp at Ho’okena Beach Park. Lack of availability there had caused us to extend our stay in Kona by a day (a rigmarole that required our hostess calling AirBNB, and us changing to a different room in… Read more…
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Kailua-Kona, HI
Days 6-7 Our fourth and final snorkeling adventure in Hawaii’s west-side waters required much more pre-adventure than our previous dives. Well, it didn’t require it. In fact, the vast majority of people who swim at the secluded Captain Cook National Monument (aka Kealakekua Bay) pay a tour company to take them there via boat. But… Read more…
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Kailua-Kona, HI
At the Jolee House AirBNB, we had the best of the four rooms, with not just our own private bathroom, but our own private lanai (for some reason they insist on using a different word for “balcony/porch” here). We had a view of the water from the lanai, but that meant it also had a… Read more…
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Kawaihae, HI to Kailua-Kona, HI
Last evening, closing her left eye was the best solution for the pain that an insect had somehow injected into Rett’s eyeball. While squeezing one eye shut prevented her from getting any enjoyment out of our oceanside campsite, it was at least compatible with sleeping, and allowed her to get both some pain relief and… Read more…
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Hawi, HI to Kawaihae, HI
The on-and-off rain must have stopped sometime during the night, because the tent was dry by morning. Well, except for the bottom. Due to the solid plywood layer of the tent platform, rain running down off the rainfly hit the platform and then collected under the tent body. At Mount Desert Campground in Maine (one… Read more…
