On Mother’s Day weekend, we went up Mauna Kea. We had been wanting to go up there since we moved here. For those that don’t know, Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano and the largest mountain on earth when measured from the sea floor. Its home to the largest observatories…
Hawaii has a reputation for being expensive, and we’ve found that be true. We definitely got sticker shock on a few items (electricity in particular), but also had a few pleasant surprises. House: It’s hard to generalize about housing costs, but the Big Island is more expensive than most of…
Flash back to January 1, 2011. I woke to another new year and another year in the books. Another year of the same old same old. As a fellow blogger put it, it was another year having the same adventure over and over instead of a year of having a…
The past couple of months have been pretty crazy, but we’re excited to give you some updates. When we moved into our first rental in June, we only signed a 6 month lease. That’s pretty standard here and we were told we could go month-to-month after that. Then we found…