We’re in the airport in Seattle, waiting for our flight home to Long Beach. It was a wonderful, but all too short, trip to Victoria. The weather was a dream: sunshine, and temps in the low 70’s – perfect walking around weather! We took a carriage ride on our first evening there through Beacon Hill…

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My meeting in Seattle ended today around noon, and we hit the road for Victoria soon after. It’s been a few years (try about seven) since I’ve been over and there have been some changes. We had our passports, but didn’t need them to get through Customs – at least if you arrive, as we…

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We spent our last day in Hilo at Volcanoes National Park exploring. We hiked the Kilauea Iki Trail, and Louise with her broken wrist was fairly terrorized by the steep descents on rocky trail. I fell only once (pretty good for me) and avoided anything more serious than a scraped hand. Louise stayed vertical the…

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We went over to the Hilo AT&T store at about 8am this morning and people were already in line to get the iPhone when they released it at 6pm. We went back later in the afternoon and the line stretched around the block. After a day spent doing laundry and snorkeling (we saw an ancient…

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We are now on the last leg of our Hawaiian vacation, and will be spending the last few days in Hilo. We’re staying at a small hotel a few blocks away from old town Hilo – that’s the part that remains of Hilo pre the 1960 tsunami. Before coming here, I never gave a lot…

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Tuesday It’s the close of our third day in Kona, Hawaii. We’ve been staying at a cute but rather divey hotel on Alii Drive. While it’s the main drag in Kona, the hotel is on its fringes and the road at this point is more like a freeway, and the hotel sits on one of…

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