Maui in 2 days
Greg & I flew over to Maui for two days last weekend. Inter-island travel is easy & affordable due to the competition between Hawaiian Airlines and Go!Mokulele. With advance purchase, a round trip ticket from Honolulu to any of the other islands is $110.Although I'm a member of all the major car rental company's rewards programs, I often find the best rates on Hotwire.com. In this case, I had

Living in Waikiki; The Big Island in 3 days
As those of you who follow me on Facebook already know, Greg & I are living in Waikiki for two months. We arrived on 16OCT and quickly settled into our one bedroom apartment about midway along the Ala Wai Canal (found through VRBO.com). It is convenient to everything -- grocery store, restaurants, shops, the beach; and we have a wonderful lanai overlooking the canal and the inland valleys to the

Europe trip summary & notes
In no particular order, here are mine & Greg's takeaways from our European vacation:- On language: We encountered more of an English barrier in Berlin than in Prague, Krakow or Budapest. There were virtually no English announcements on public transit or in the train stations or written on directional signs, so we really had to be intuitive and work together to figure out how to get from A to B.-

Roaming around Europe
Today marks one week since I started my Europe trip. I am typing this on the train from Berlin to Prague -- right now I’m somewhere between Berlin and Dresden. The weather has been beautiful for the most part. It only rained briefly while I was in Copenhagen and has otherwise been sunny to partly cloudy with highs in the mid to upper 60‘s and lows in the low 50‘s.I arrived in Copenhagen on Monday

Planning for Eastern Europe
Ever since we returned from Seattle, we have spent most of our spare time planning our next adventure(s). As usual, everything is fairly last minute, even if we’ve discussed the options over the course of several months.Greg is actually taking two weeks of vacation (working remotely in New York & Seattle is NOT vacation!) and we’re leaving for Eastern Europe next week. Since his time is limited,