SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Hawaii- Wikipedia
If you have never been to Hawaii before the best months of the year to visit (high season is from about December 15 to March 15th. However, October, because one of my daughters had a fall break from her private school while she was growing up we often went during that break and took one of her friends (and or) our two older kids especially between about 2005 and 2013 when my two youngest daughters were growing up. Now they are 28 and 21 and it's a little harder to get them to travel with us like before. But, we went to France in 2009, to Paris and Nice and Monaco and took the TGV which is a train that goes over 200 miles per hour between Paris and Nice parts of the way there. So, it actually is easier and less hassle to take a bullet train from Paris to Nice than to fly between the two. Of course you could always rent a car or a motor home and make the drive too. The Cote D'Azure or Azure Sea on the French Riviera is pretty amazing too.
Anyway, my wife and I are visiting where we honeymooned when we married in December 1995. So, I thought blogging about Hawaii might be kind of fun.
I have lived in Hilo in 1974 and on Maui in 1989 and 1990 and loved both experiences. (However, going to Hilo in August even at age 26 without air conditioning was a bit much even then for me. My first wife and I and our baby moved there in 1974 but we only stayed a few months for a variety of reasons even though she had lived there a year or more at a younger age. But, Hawaii is special to me as a kind of Paradise one can live in or visit. But, if you live there it is a very different thing than vacationing there. IT's entirely different and also it is different any different age you are living there. But, I suppose this is also true wherever you live on earth too.
But, in some ways Hawaii is more of an ideal paradise than anywhere else if you are just going for a few weeks of fun in the sun and the waves in a tropical climate.
I went to Kona side of the Big Island in January 2015 snorkeling mostly with two of my friends then. We had a really amazing experience and even drove the new road over past the mountain sheep over to Hilo over the mountain roads there. I don't think you could do the drive between Kona and Hilo over the mountains in 1974 even though you could then drive up Moana Kea to 14,000 feet in elevation with your car. But, you really don't want to do that unless you have a 4 wheel drive or stick shift and know how to use it because of potential brake fade coming down the steep steep roads from 14,000 feet. Going up can be a problem for some carburetors too but most with fuel injection likely could get up there but coming down is a real problem for most drivers not used to something this extreme if they are not trained how to survive something like this.
So, this is the first time I have been back to the islands since January 2015 and the first time for my wife since 2014 when we came just before our youngest daughter's graduation from High School during Easter Vacation and brought our older daughter and her boyfriend too. This was a really fun trip to Hawaii.
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Hawaii - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii
Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only U.S.
Things to do in Hawaii
Honolulu, Waikiki Beach & Pearl Harbo
Coordinates: 21°18′41″N 157°47′47″W
 listen) hə-WY-(y)ee; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi]) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.[10] Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.[11] Hawaii is the only U.S. state located outside North America.The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian archipelago, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands are—in order from northwest to southeast: Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and the Island of Hawaiʻi. The last is the largest island in the group; it is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaiʻi Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. Hawaii's diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches, oceanic surroundings, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists. Because of its central location in the Pacific and 19th-century labor migration, Hawaii's culture is strongly influenced by North American and Asian cultures, in addition to its indigenous Hawaiian culture. Hawaii has over a million permanent residents, along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu. Hawaii is the 8th-smallest and the 11th-least populous, but the 13th-most densely populatedof the fifty U.S. states. It is the only state with an Asian plurality. The state's coastline is about 750 miles (1,210 km) long, the fourth longest in the U.S. after the coastlines of Alaska, Florida, and California. CONTENTS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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