Posts in Tag: driving tours
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Eastern PEI – Some Random Ramblings
This is my fourth post from a recent visit to Prince Edward Island and will feature a number of places Alison and I visited between and after golf games at the two Brudenell River courses. We started the day with a 7:00 tee time at Dundarave which I described in this hole-by-hole post. Finishing just […]
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North Coast 500 – Why You Need to Drive It Now
Although Scotland’s North Coast 500 is not yet five years old, it has already taken its place as one of the great coastal drives in the world, alongside Italy’s Amalfi Coast, California’s Pacific Highway and my own province of Nova Scotia’s Cabot Trail. Having driven all three of those I was determined to see if […]
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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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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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Kilauea Crater – Crown Jewel of Hawaiian Volcanoes N.P.
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip to the four main Hawaiian islands that Alison and I took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we visited Maui’s Mount Haleakala National Park which features a dormant volcano. In this post […]
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Iolani Palace, Hawaiian Royalty & Going Loco Moco
This is one of a continuing series of posts on a visit to all four of the main Hawaiian islands that Alison and I and friends took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. Yesterday we went in search of sites associated with the original Hawaii Five-0 TV series […]
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Hawaii Five-0 – Searching for Steve McGarrett and Wo Fat
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a visit to the four main Hawaiian islands that Alison and I took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we visited the sites of Pearl Harbor and the Bishop Museum. In keeping with the […]
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La Seu d’Urgell – Finding Marilyn Monroe in this Ancient Spanish Town
Spain abounds with well preserved small cities and towns that, if they were located anywhere else, would draw a large number of tourists to their unique sites and atmospheres. However, with the irresistible pull of the Toledos, Segovias, Rondas and other better known places, they just get lost in the shuffle. Such a place is the […]
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New Orleans Post Katrina – Why We Must Not Forsake NOLA Again
This article came about as a result of a visit to New Orleans in late January 2008 some two and a half years after Hurricane Katrina. Although the trip was ostensibly for depositions of experts on a large commercial litigation file I was engaged on, I was most anxious to see how far the city […]