Kailua Kona, United States

... of the Kona coffee. None of it was as good as Kona Joe's so I'm waiting to buy some until we get back to Kona next week. We started driving towards Kona to putter around the town for awhile and came across this little outdoor market with a number of ...

... in and we were so tired it was relaxing.   Back at the condo, we relaxed for a couple hours and ventured back out to Kona. Jeff wanted to fish off of the pier and I had some more shops to explore. (I hadn't even gotten myself a t-shirt yet.) We ...

Our first sight of Hawaii: acres and acres of black lava in various stages of erosion, but much of it seemingly recent.  And the air port is right in the middle of it.  Just a little reminder, in case we'd forgotten, that we're on a volcanic ...

4:45 am wake up call for the flight to Kona on the Big Island.  We had to fly back to Honolulu and change planes.  Once here, we went to get our car - we had reserved a Jeep 4x4 but of course they were out of those!  They gave us a ...