Author: neil

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…

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…

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…