If you’ve visited Maui before, you’ve probably done many of the most popular activities. You’ve snorkeled the best snorkel spots, hit the best Lahaina happy hours, driven the epic road to Hana, and taken in a sunset while enjoying a…
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The Beauty of Returning to a Place You Know and Love
I love revisiting a place I have already been. Even better if I can do so in new company. If I didn’t much care for the place on the first visit, it gives me a second chance to discover it…
Month in Review: October 2017
I procrastinated writing this post. I didn’t want to do it. I wasn’t sure that I could. There’s so much to say about this month, and I’m certain I’m going to fall short. There are moments, big and small, that…
Mermaiding in Maui: Dreams Really Do Come True
I never thought that at the age of 30, I’d become a mermaid fo’ real. Yes, I really became a mermaid in Maui with Hawaii Mermaid Adventures, and I’m here to tell you the exciting tail. Growing up as a millennial baby…
The Perfect Day in Lahaina
One lazy afternoon on Maui, my mom and I decided to take a trip, just the two of us, to Lahaina, one of the island’s most adorable historic towns. For as long as I can remember we’ve been making the…
Summiting Haleakala Crater for Sunrise
Summiting Haleakala Crater for sunrise was something I always thought was only achievable by embarking on a strenuous trek. To be fair, at just 16 years of age on my last visit to Maui, I hadn’t bothered to research it;…
5 Maui Sunsets Worth Drooling Over
On the island of Maui, there’s no such thing as a boring sunset. I already had a hunch, but my recent three-week trip with family really drove the point home. I figured we’d see at least ONE sunset during that…
Kayaking in Maui: An Ocean Excursion to Remember
No trip to Maui would be complete without an adventurous outing on the ocean, enjoying the sunshine and experiencing the marine life in its own habitat, up-close and personal. Kayaking in Maui was something my mom had always wanted to…
Family Matters in Maui
Returning to places of significance in my life turned out to be something of a recurring theme within my travels last year. After two months spent in Thailand, where I’d lived and taught English a few years earlier, I returned…
Month in Review: November 2015
Before beginning this post, I couldn’t resist checking out last year’s roundup from November. Now that this little series has been going for more than a year, it’s always so interesting to see where I was all those months ago…
