Aloha! When in Kauai, cookies are actually spelled ‘Kookies’, at least when you visit Kauai’s oldest and original ‘Cookie’ factory! In this post I’m combining two of our day outings: the Kauai Kookie Factory, and the Kauai Coffee Company. …
Waimea Canyon by Land
Waimea Canyon is ‘The Grand Canyon’ of Hawaii, located on the island of Kauai. We explored Waimea Canyon both by land and by helicopter, on two different days. I’ll start with our road trip, as we did this first. We…
Blast from the past – the Westin and Coco Palms Kauai revisted!
This morning we were scheduled to take a 10am helicopter tour over Kauai. We left our hotel, the Grand Hyatt Poipu, at 8:30am to meet our arranged pre-board/checkin time of 9:15am. As it turned out, traffic was light and we…
Exploring the Grand Hyatt Kauai
We’re staying at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Poipu, which is a quiet area about half an hour’s drive from the Lihue Airport. This oceanfront resort is absolutely gorgeous, without being overly fancy or pretentious. The design is actually very…
Aloha bound – Flight to Honolulu
I’m trying to catch up on my blog, and what better time than a maintenance delay while we’re on American Airlines flight 5 from DFW to Honolulu. We are actually going on to Kauai, but flying via Honolulu, and connecting…
Two Night Layover in Dallas
As I said in my last post, our trip to Kauai got off to an unpredictable and frazzled start with Hurricane Matthew looming around the Florida coast. We left Orlando a day earlier on Thursday as the airport closed Thursday…