Author: neil

Last summer we filled ourselves from the breakfast buffet at Glacier (twice!), Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Park Lodges. Now it was time to continue the streak at Volcanoes! It was similar in quality to the mainland versions, but additionally had a chef making custom omelettes to order. And they charged us the cheaper staying-at-the-lodge…

Day 2 Today we would do wheeled exploration of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, via Crater Rim Drive, and Chain of Craters Road. Ironically, the “Drive”, much shorter than the “Road”, would actually have been more-suited to the bikes than the truck (the “stop every quarter-mile” nature of the lookouts are the exact sort of things…

Back when we thought we’d be rounding the south end of the Big Island on our bicycles, the idea was for us to just move 10 miles up the ring road and camp at Whittington Beach Park. That short day would give us the opportunity to do an 18-mile in-and-out offshoot to the southernmost tip…

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…

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…