Posts in Category: United States
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Santiva Salt Water Fishing – Sharks and Sea Trout on Pine Island Sound
Time for another short break from the Holland cycling saga. We are now in Sanibel, which for the past thirty-five years has been my favourite place on this little planet. I won’t try to sell you on Sanibel in this post, but I do want to talk about one of the reasons I love it […]
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Loxahatchee National Wildlife Reserve – Canoeing with Alligators
Taking a canoe trip into the everglades at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Reserve during alligator mating season is not the brightest of ideas. Here’s why. I have loved the everglades since I first visited them over forty years ago. I have into hiked them at Flamingo, taken a National Park tour boat in Chokoloskee and even […]
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Boston – How to Get the Most Out of a Three Night Visit in Winter
We’d had enough of the shitty Nova Scotia weather so a road trip was in order. I bought some Bruins tickets on line (more expensive than Leaf tickets if you can believe it), booked a room for three nights at the Battery Wharf Hotel and hit the road. Listening to Harlan Coben’s excellent thriller Six […]
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Hawaii – Twenty Things to See and Do On My Next Visit
Even though we spent five weeks in Hawaii there were just too many things that we did not get a chance to experience. Here is a tentative list of things that I plan to see and do on my next trip. 1. Next time I will visit when the ocean is more serene and the […]
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Mauna Kea – Driving the Saddle Road to the World’s Largest Mountain
This is the final post from an almost five week tour that Alison and I took to the four main Hawaiian islands a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we found green turtles and green sand as we explored the area around the Fairmont Orchid. […]
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The Fairmont Orchid – Finding Green Turtles and Green Sand
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I took a few years ago to the four major Hawaiian islands. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we toured the Kohala Coast and visited Pu’ukohola, the site of King Kamehameha’s rise to power. […]
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Pu’ukohola – Visiting the Site of King Kamehameha’s Rise to Power
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip that Alison and I took to the four main Hawaiian islands a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. It was time for one final move on our epic (at least to us) Hawaiian tour. We packed up […]
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Keleakekua Bay – Snuba, Spinner Dolphins and Captain Cook
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I took to the four main Hawaiian islands. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we concluded our tenth and final game of golf in Hawaii at the former Mountain Course at the Kona Country […]
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Kona Country Club – A Great Finale to Our Golf in Hawaii
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a visit to the four main Hawaiian island that Alison and I and friends went on a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we played golf among the peacocks at the Makalei Golf Club and […]