I’m not nearly as brave as our friend Teri Dodson. Teri wanted to live on Maui, so she went on Craig’s List late last fall and found not only a great job, but also a woman looking for a roommate on the island of her dreams. And while I dearly loved all three of my...
“Over my dead body,” said my mother in 1998, when I told her I wanted to get a tattoo. “You’re not going to desecrate that body I gave birth to, do you hear me?” And that was the end of my plan to have a green dragon inked on my shoulder. Never mind that I was 44...
In 2008, “my Bob” and I had been about blown off the map when we tried to eat a Subway sandwich hunkered down at a picnic table freezing ours buns off at this obscure little state park on the western tip of Maui. But what a different experience Rick and I had! The...
Having a full kitchen in our condo saved us the expense of ever eating breakfast out during this two-week vacation, and many of our lunches consisted of yummy “leftovers” from the previous evening’s meal. But every night, except those where we had a scheduled luau or...
Taking a Zodiac Super Raft out to snorkel the waters off the tiny island of Lanai wasn’t even on my radar when I left home. The word “raft,” in my previous experience, conjured up only thoughts of “emergency water landings” and floating down the Yakima River back in...
