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Working hard at hardly working
We spent our last day in Hilo at Volcanoes National Park exploring. We hiked the Kilauea Iki Trail, and Louise with her broken wrist was fairly terrorized by the steep descents on rocky trail. I fell only once (pretty good for me) and avoided anything more serious than a scraped hand. Louise stayed vertical the
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Oh, man! I missed the second coming!
We went over to the Hilo AT&T store at about 8am this morning and people were already in line to get the iPhone when they released it at 6pm. We went back later in the afternoon and the line stretched around the block. After a day spent doing laundry and snorkeling (we saw an ancient
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The sounds of silence (not)
We are now on the last leg of our Hawaiian vacation, and will be spending the last few days in Hilo. We’re staying at a small hotel a few blocks away from old town Hilo – that’s the part that remains of Hilo pre the 1960 tsunami. Before coming here, I never gave a lot
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At last!
Paradise is proving to be a hard place to get a reliable Internet connection! I am now in the lobby of our hotel in Hilo, and have a good wireless signal (for now). I managed to upload the wedding pics on Flickr, so here they are! Hilo is the complete opposite of Kona – it’s
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Just another day in paradise
Tuesday It’s the close of our third day in Kona, Hawaii. We’ve been staying at a cute but rather divey hotel on Alii Drive. While it’s the main drag in Kona, the hotel is on its fringes and the road at this point is more like a freeway, and the hotel sits on one of
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The start of something great
My niece’s wedding was yesterday, and it was a lovely ceremony, in the Na’ Aina Botanical Gardens overlooking the ocean in Kilauea. Destination weddings (this was the first I’ve ever attended) are beautiful, but I wouldn’t want to take on the hassle of arranging one. They were coordinating arrivals up until noon yesterday. Phew! As
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