big island
My best sandwich on Hawaii island and a handful of places you should add to your Big Island of Hawaii trip idea list
August 6, 2019In a world where nothing lasts forever, I know we can’t count on the places we love still being in the places we’ve visited when we come back to visit again. But I’ve visited the Big Island of Hawaii a handful of times over the span of 18 years and so much of this beautiful island […]
Read MorePana ‘ewa Zoo (Hilo, HI)
May 13, 2011When we went to the Big Island with our family and the grandparents last August, I needed an excuse to drive an hour or so to Hilo to get this mochi I read about and couldn’t leave Hawaii without trying: . It is from a place called The Two Ladies Kitchen and they are famous […]
Read MoreGreenwell Farms (Big Island, Hawaii)
February 25, 2011Over a decade ago I won a contest on the “World Wide Web” that led me to the Big Island for the first time. It started a love of this beautiful island that brought me back six years ago with my husband, and now this past summer with my boys. The one must-see place on […]
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The Coffee Shack-Breakfast with Geckos (Big Island, HI)
December 8, 2010It’s drippy here in December in Seattle, but in South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, I imagine it’s gloriously tropical. And a breakfast at the Coffee Shack, a restaurant on the Big Island would make any day perfect rain or shine. When we decided to take our two-year-old boys to the Big Island […]
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