Lava fountain erupting at night with glowing flow

Starry Skies, an Erupting Volcano, and a Rental Car Nightmare

Stargazing at Mauna Kea Of course we had pool time today, but the highlight was heading up to Mauna Kea for some night sky photography. From the Kohala Coast it is a little over an hour’s drive, and you quickly learn to keep your eyes peeled for free-range goats on the highway. They wander across […]

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The Long Layover in Kona (and Waikiki) (after a trip to Scottsdale)

(There’s a long preamble for this trip, so click here if you just want to read about Kona). We’d been isolated in Australia for 26 months. TWENTY SIX MONTHS! To be fair, there are far worse places to be confined. When the Australian border reopening was announced, we immediately booked flights to visit my mom […]

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