Oahu
Travel Blogs from Oahu, United States
It's a WHEA of life....aloha...kk
So let me tell you about this school I visited today. Its motto is "No Child Left Indoors"...it's an experiential school focused on environmental science (West Hawaii Explorations Academy---WHEA). I meet a teenager in a bookstore ...
if you live long enough.....
As a good friend of mine says, if you live long enough, you'll eventually see it all...and the past few days have proven to me that life still holds surprises....and some real eye opening learning.... It started in Ho'okena...that's the campground ...
Aloha! Welcome to the Sunshine Paradise Oahu!
... to scuba diving to swimming with dolphins, etc. No matter what things you like to do, there is always something you enjoy to do in Oahu. I'm sure to say Honolulu is a place where no one will ever get bored. XD I found that Ala Moana Center is a great ...
Hawaii
Brett and I went to Hawaii after Europe. I didn't like it that much but have since heard that it is much better if you get off the main island, which we ...
Journey to Paradise: Oahu
... we went to Punchbowl National Cemetery, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific for those men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces. The place is so serene; very relaxing. We climbed up the monumental staircase from the crater floor ...
Journey to Paradise - Pride of America
We took a cab from Marriott Waikiki and arrived at Honolulu Pier 2 around 11:35 AM. We were able to checked- in right away. I forgot the kids' passport in our luggage. We left it there when we went to Waikiki Beach and forgot to take it out. The ...
Easing Back Home Through Hawaii
... less reason to mind. One day, when we had a full day of beautiful weather, we drove up to the North Shore of Oahu, home of some of Hawaii's most famous surfing. We spent awhile watching surfing at Sunset Beach (should have brought binoculars, but ...
The Pride of America
... you've been doing. We got on the ship "The Pride of America". The whole ship is themed like different places in the United States. The lobby is decorated like the white house , there is the Liberty Restaurant , the Skyline Resturaunt , Wild West , ...
Journey to Paradise
This is the most anticipated vacation we ever had. As soon as we returned from our Bahamas vacation we couldn't help but wish its August already so that we can go to Hawaii. We heard a lot of good things about this place called paradise and we want to ...
Hang Loose
... it's all there - Everything. Ala Moana - The BIG mall! This mall has everything and it is one of the richest malls in the United States. If you were to look around 360 degrees you might think that you are in Tokyo because you are the only one with eyes ...
Underage drinking in Hawaii
Jen and I (along with Mark his friend Scott) headed off to Hawaii way back in December of 1997. We went around a few of the islands I rode down a (dormant of course) volcano on a bicycle. A bus took us up at some ungodly hour and it was freezing cold at ...
Island Days, Once More
... , which I don't want to do, I would instead combine traveling and heading toward home and travel through parts of the western United States, since before now I had never been further west in the US than parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The first full ...
Packaging
Americans do packaging so well. Be it the flag, a painted fence, or a tin of salmon, there's always a splash of eye candy about. Going to the grocery store on trips is one of my favourite pasttimes. Besides the constant price comparisons (why is ...
Hi everyone and aloha from hawaii!!! well ...
Hi everyone and ALOHA from Hawaii!!! Well, we are FINALLY on our way, exactly six months from the day we decided to go on this adventure. There were a lot of days we didn't think we would actually ever get away, but we did it ... with a lot of help ...
Hawaii
... she's still thankful to get out of the car at her hotel. We drive east over the spine of mountains that separates Oahu's windward side from the metropolitan south. Julie's step-uncle Bill and his family live across the street from the ocean in Kailua, ...
Some R&R in paradise
We finally reached Hawaii our last stop on this trip! We spent a lot of time just relaxing, hanging out with my family, eating out & then going to the gym and doing some touristy sightseeing as well. Frank's favorite was of course the ...
Ambitions
... is More traveller, this laid back attitude draws on some rarely exploited part of my cranium. The transformation is helped by the fact I enveloped Oahu on a trip 18 months ago. Still, I have 5 things on my To Do list for the week: 1) get inside the ...
Aloha!
... to say they are still alive. Despite the weather and our sunburns, we loved Hawaii and had a wonderful time. Next time will explore the outer islands. But Oahu is highly recommended, absolutely gorgeous, good coffee, and really friendly laidback ...
Aloha!
... there, I'm left with an insatiable desire to go back. Words, and even pictures cannot begin to describe the beauty of Oahu - the towering mountains covered in lush green carpets of trees, the crystal-clear sea water, the stunningly beautiful women walking ...
From disembarkation in Honolulu to Ko Olina
We're not rushing to leave today because we have the whole week ahead of us here in Oahu. We went to Lazy J for our last breakfast. We will be missing this hearty breakfast for sure. We ate DS birthday cake. It was good. It's different from the cake ...
Three little adventures
In a coup of organizing, I've transported my daughter Emma's entire nuclear family to Hawaii for the week; Emma, her birth mom, Tusa, and her step dad, Rich, stay at the friendly Waikiki Sand Villa for a last week together before Emma comes along with us ...
Oahu - Hawaii Islands.
Arrived in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Our hostel the Hokondo Waikiki Beachside was a bit of a baptism of fire - a very crowded 8 bed dorm - and we both had top bunks! It was right in the heart of Waikiki and had free breakfast of toast and coffee. We ...
Hawaii wrap up
... traffic. The sweep of the landscape pulls Emma out of the sweet sorrow of parting. With only half a day before we too leave Oahu, my relax-and-do-whatever attitude finally snaps. I must experience at least one new thing on this trip! At three o'clock ...
Polynesian Cultural Center (US&C)
"A One-Stop Trip Around the Pacific" My friend and I had a great time visiting the Polynesian Cultural Center when we visited Hawaii for our graduation trip. It's a wonderful place to see and experience the lifestyles of seven different Pacific Islands: ...
Aloha from Hawaii
After a long day at the airport, arrived early and then had a delay, so 12 hours....aaaaahhhhhhh.....but just one of those things and bound to happen, got to hotel tired, miserable & irratable. Great location just 2 blocks off the Waikiki ...
oh crap...trip is almost over
almost a week in Hawaii before back to Canada. crap. Entry to come later. Pics later too. Too tired right now. 19 hour time difference. ...
Pearl Harbor (US&C)
"Remember..." My friend and I visited Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona on our graduation trip to Hawaii. Even though we were young, it did move us, and we realized the enormity of what had happened on December 7, 1941. That day, the Japanese bombed the ...
Oahu (World)
I got to visit the island of Oahu with a friend of mine; our parents sent us as a graduation present in 1986. I had just turned 18 (egads, did I just date myself?)! We flew from San Francisco, and I think it was my first commercial airplane flight. We ...

