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  • Southern Oahu Day Trip: Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, and Manoa Falls

    Southern Oahu Day Trip: Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, and Manoa Falls

    Confession time: we are not city people. I can hear some of you gasping and scoffing right now, and that is okay. We know what we like, and spending our valuable vacation time seeing a dozen museums and dealing with city traffic is not it. Whenever we travel, we purposefully…

  • Oahu: Day Trip to the North Shore

    Oahu: Day Trip to the North Shore

    The North Shore of Oahu is likely most famous as a surfing destination. Experienced surfers seek the big waves of the North Shore beaches in the winter when the swells are at their highest (30 ft!), and the region continues to draw surfers during the summer months when beginners can…

  • Planning a Family Trip to Hawaii: Oahu and the Big Island

    Planning a Family Trip to Hawaii: Oahu and the Big Island

    When most parents think of vacationing with two children under five, their first impulse may not be to choose a destination that requires over 24 hours of flight time. Being the avid adventuring (and maybe slightly crazy) type, that is just what we did in planning our family trip to…