Castle Queen Kapiolani

After delays with our plane finding a gate and a looong walk to baggage claim, we eventually made it to Waikiki and checked into our room at the Queen Kapiolani hotel. ...

The tour bus arrived promptly at 6:15am, just before dawn.  The irony: I was on my way to Pearl Harbor at exactly the same time that six Japanese aircraft carriers turned into the wind and launched their planes.  That was 70 years ago, almost ...

Yesterday's flight should have been a brute but the time passed quite quickly -- all six hours.  I thought Vancouver-to-Honolulu was 4.5 hrs for some reason. Westjet has changed.  No longer a joke-quipping, customer-serving airline, this flight ...

Wednesday May 14, 2008 Our first officaly day in Hawaii, and we're up at about 730am. We headed to the reatuarant which was located on the 3rd floor of our hotel, and while we were sitting there, I just happned to look out the window and realized that ...