Your last Hawaiian vacation Have you ever enjoyed a Hawaii grown papaya? There’s nothing quite like it. You’re so happy when you find it at your local grocer, you buy it, even though it’s overpriced, you take it home, cradling it like a newborn baby so as not to bruise it. You cut it open […]
Leaving Maui
Leaving Maui In a week we’ll be leaving Maui, it’s hard to believe that we’ve been here for nearly 5 months. Time does zip by. We’ve met so many great people and have had plenty of adventures on this little island. Remember all the things we learned or thought we’d never say? And the sleepless […]
We’re going on a diet!
Moving on Well, here we are at the end of our second “house sit” on Maui and moving on to number three. We are heading back to Kipahulu on the East side of the island, nicely snuggled into a 26 acre property completely off the grid. With the move we are also going on a […]
Honest Food Tales – Farmhouse Kitchen
Alaska, truly the last frontier. Somehow Alaska had never entered my “places I have to visit” category. It just seemed so far away…from everything. But a wedding invitation from someone dear to our hearts made it a reality. We were going to Alaska! I really didn’t know what to expect other than vast wilderness, whales, […]
The Magic Isle
Sovereignty Around this time last year, we were on a plane on our way to Maui. Maui reminds me a bit of Quebec in that it’s struggling to keep its cultural identity while being part of a larger entity. Like Quebec, there’s a sovereignty movement here but this isn’t a political blog so I won’t […]