Category: USA
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Honaka’a, HI to Hawi, HI
We cleared out of our AirBNB room by 9:20am, and got immediately smacked with an 11% hill over the first half-mile (including sections of 15%!!) just to return to the main highway. We actually crossed the new highway and turned onto a paralleling section of the old highway, and the transition to a “mere” 5%…