Category Archives: Hawaii

For the past eight years, Keoke Kahumoku has held a Hawaiian Music and Lifestyle camp, the first week of November. The camp takes place in Pahala on the big island, and top-drawer musicians and dancers teach ukelele, open-tuning guitar, singing, … Continue reading →

Honoka’a is currently the site of an independent movie, based on Leo Yoshida’s Japanese young-adult novel, Honoka’a Boy. Visit Tim Ryan’s Reel Hawaii for more information and a nice picture of the People’s Theater in Honoka’a. L’s neighbor and close … Continue reading →

We passed the volcano Park and stopped at the Black Sand Beach.  This is the most of a turtle I’ve ever seen at one time.  It was headed back into the water after the adoring fans and paparazzi became too … Continue reading →

            “One of USA Today’s 10 Best in the Nation.”  That’s Ken’s House of Pancakes, in Hilo, Hawai’i.  Ken’s makes it into the Hawaii guidebooks too.  L has a friend who is a native Hawaiian who says “When I come … Continue reading →

On Friday night, September 19, L took me to a Democratic event at the Mooheau Bandstand in Hilo.  The Bandstand is downtown, right across the highway from the seawall, overlooking the bay.  I had walked through it once before at … Continue reading →

Before we went to see the lava flow, my friend L took us to a kava bar in the Kalapana district. “Kava and lava,” she said. We made a left onto a street that paralleled the highway and drove for about … Continue reading →

My friend took us to see the Kilauea lava flow.  As you head south into the Puna district on the big island of Hawaii, you pass a mileage sign that says something like, “End of the Road, 5 miles.”  The … Continue reading →