• In the Driver’s Seat

    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…

  • New Year, New House!

    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…

  • California Roadtrip

    After a whirlwind week of deciding where we were going to live, packing, and moving, we decided to leave Hawaii for Christmas and threw in last minute trip planning to boot. So after finishing packing up our stuff, we turned in our house keys, headed straight to the airport and…

  • Thanksgiving, Scuba Santa and More

    In early November, Chuck’s parents visited.  It was so great to have them here and share the island with them. Right before they left we all went to the Kona Coffee festival parade.  It was one of the cooler parades and had a lot of Asian and local influences.  I…