Showing 1-23 of 23 results
-
Waves Crashing on South Point, Hawaii
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 23 February 2012
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel quotes.
-
An Itinerary for the Big Island of Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 26 January 2012
For me, travel is about experiences and connecting with people. When I make a connection with people in a destination, then it will turn into one of those magical places that will be on my ‘favorite’ list for years to come. That is what the Big Island of Hawaii was for me. I made many [...]
-
Honey Happiness
Blog: Ottsworld - 24 January 2012
Can honey make the world a better place? Prior to traveling on the Big Island my answer to that question was most definitely “Huh? ” most likely followed by “No.” However, after meeting Richard of the Volcano Island Honey Company, spending hours talking to him enthralled with every piece of information that came from his [...]
-
Kailua Kona – Lodging with a Personal Touch
Blog: Ottsworld - 19 January 2012
Big Island – Accommodation – Kona Hula Girl When I first wrote to the Kona Hula Girl owners to learn more about their rental property the owners said, “I do want you to be aware that this is not a traditional hotel in any way”. They clearly knew exactly what to say to me to [...]
-
The Birth of Land on the Big Island Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 17 January 2012
I stand looking out over the jagged landscape; toppled-over trees without bark and a silver sheen provide a contrast against the dark petrified sea of lava. Occasionally I see a tuft of green sprouting up as if it was trying to reach to the sun. I imagine these scarce green leaves sprouting out of the [...]
-
Drive to Mauna Kea
Blog: Ottsworld - 13 January 2012
As I drove the gradual incline, the car downshifted to a lower gear, jerked and slowly inched up the road; I could feel just how hard it seemed to be working to get up to the Mauna Kea visitor center. Hawaii has the tallest mountain on earth. No, I haven’t lost my mind, and no, [...]
-
A Place to Call Home on the Big Island
Blog: Ottsworld - 12 January 2012
As a solo traveler I look for smaller, intimate places to stay. I feel lost in big resorts and quite frankly it’s just not my style. I was combing the internet in search of a small, local place to stay near Waimea on the Big Island and I came across Annette at the Aloha Vacation [...]
-
Farm to Table – Vanilla on the Big Island of Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 10 January 2012
Ice cream, chocolate chip cookies, coffee, cakes, and shakes – these are all places where you expect to find vanilla beans or vanilla flavor. But what about lemonade, BBQ sauce, chutney, cornbread, maple syrup, jelly, or salad dressing? And would you expect to find a vanilla farm (the first & only commercial vanilla operation in [...]
-
Hawaii From Above Photography
Blog: Ottsworld - 6 January 2012
When I first started my career break travels in 2006, I stumbled across a photography exhibition in Melbourne Australia called The Earth From Above; aerial photography from all over the world. I fell in love with it immediately; it provided such a unique perspective that few people get to see. The exhibit inspired me [...]
-
The Big Island from Above
Blog: Ottsworld - 5 January 2012
After driving around the entire Big Island for a week I could appreciate the diversity of landscapes, however today is when the all of the puzzle pieces come together. The lava field piece connects with the rainforest piece. The brown desert piece connects to the turquoise waters of the coast. The towering mountains connecta with [...]
-
Driving Cattle Through Driving Rain in Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 3 January 2012
“The horses are not pets. They are workers. Do not let the horses eat; they have all day to eat. Now they are supposed to be working, they are on my time now.” This is the first thing I hear from the good looking young man dressed in levis, leather chaps with fringe, cowboy boots [...]
-
Photo Safari – Hunting for Good Photography in Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 15 December 2011
A familiar diesel idle echoed through my ears as the big safari truck pulled up next to me and my little rental car. This truck was my transport to go on safari on the Big Island of Hawaii. However I wasn’t searching for wild game, instead I was searching for good photography. Photo Safari Hawaii [...]
-
Road Trip to Puna on the Big Island Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 9 December 2011
The trees look as if they have plotted a slow attack to take over the road. Vines hang down trying to slyly block my way and hinder my vision. The road isn’t straight nor does it have any defined shoulders or boundaries. The asphalt is laid around each tree trunk making the road look like [...]
-
Over the Rainbow in Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 2 December 2011
When moisture and sunshine combine in just the right combination, a rainbow occurs. The perfect combination happens more often in Hawaii than any other state and that’s why the state motto is The Rainbow State! During my 3 weeks in Oahu and the Big Island I saw more rainbows than I’ve ever seen in my [...]
-
Lava is a Battlefield – Chain of Craters Road
Blog: Ottsworld - 1 December 2011
The radio plays old Van Morison tunes as I sing along in the car with my eyes peeled on the Chain of Craters Road wondering what I will encounter next. Even the radio station on the Big Island has the call letters – LAVA – I let out a little chuckle at the silliness of [...]
-
Rain Forest Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 25 November 2011
Akaka Falls State Park on the Big Island of Hawaii was the next stop on my Big Island Adventure. The Hamakua Coast and Hilo were living up to it’s reputation of the rainiest places on earth! It had been pouring rain all day with no end to the moody, gray clouds – so I decided [...]
-
Shark Adventure in Hawaii
Blog: Ottsworld - 1 November 2011
Da dum, Da dum, Da dum…. I hate scary movies; I’ve been a terror wimp my whole life. I have never even watched Jaws. The movie poster alone sent me into tears running for my mother and making me think twice about jumping into the lake – let alone an ocean. It was good that [...]
-
If You Can’t Beat Em, Wear a Plastic Lei and Film Em
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 5 July 2010
A long gleaming corridor. Palm trees and piped-in music. Our shoes squeaked along too-shiny floors as we walked deeper, further down, following the faint beating of drums and the smell of roasting pig, down into the belly of the beast: the Hilton Waikoloa Village, Kona. Nevermind how I ended up there. Nevermind the maze of [...]
-
Voices in the Dark: Coral Graffiti Along Hawaii’s Highway 19
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 2 July 2010
Hot air. A plumb-cloud sky and a mile of black. This is not paradise; this is death. This is the rocky remains of an ancient burning, shot out from far below the surface. This is a graveyard of fire. Sometimes the earth can be scarred like skin. This is what I thought as we drove up [...]
-
A Circle of Stones
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 24 June 2010
“I believe that the land has memory—that the earth remembers the things it has seen.” Lucille Clifton said that at a reading I went to as a teenager, in introduction to her poem “Auction Street,” about how it felt to stand at former slave auctioning blocks in Memphis. I hadn’t traveled yet, hadn’t experienced much [...]
-
Hawaii Week: Kona Village Mystery Solved
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 10 March 2010
There are many exceptional hotels in Hawaii but there is one in particular that seems to have cult status with families, Kona Village on the Big Island. One of the few inclusive-style accommodations in Hawaii, we’ve had the family-friendly hotel review on Ciao Bambino for a while now. Even though I personally interviewed the family that wrote the review, I didn’t really understand what made the hotel so special. I do now.
-
Hawaii Week: Big Island of Hawai’i with Kids
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 9 March 2010
Where else can you take a kid to see a real, erupting volcano? It’s safe – Kilauea Volcano is sometimes referred to as the “drive-in volcano” – and it’s interesting. Enter the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, located near Volcano Village, and take the 11-mile Crater Rim Drive, which circles Kilauea’s summit caldera and craters. You can see the eruption at Halema‘uma‘u Crater, learn about lava at the Jaggar Museum, peer into steam vents, smell sulphur banks, walk through Thurston Lava Tube, and hike Devastation Trail ...
-
Where are you going? Finding Sisterly Comparisons at Hawaii’s Akaka Falls
Blog: Suzy Guese - 22 February 2010
A blond, brunette, and the ever-important redhead set out for the big Island of Hawaii. Bar jokes could ensue, but rather these three hair colors find something even more creative than a trite joke in the Hawaiian landscape. That blond and that brunette are my two sisters. Yes, we have three different hair colors and yes [...]
Showing 1-23 of 23 results
