Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

We went to a luau while on Kauai.  If you’ve ever been to one, I’m sure you know what it was like – I think they’re all fairly similar in format: Arrive, tour the grounds. Imu ceremony to unearth a pig you will be eating soon. Bar opens, watered-down mai tais are served while a […]

Here we are in a tropical paradise.  What do you think the most frequently spotted (and heard) bird is? It’s probably not what you’re thinking.  Here he is: What?  A rooster? Yep.  A lot of these guys (and gals) got loose in a big hurricane in 1992, and now there are feral roosters and hens […]

Aloha! This is the view from the porch of the cottage we rented on Kauai this week (if you look closely, you can see a little of the ocean in the background): We stayed up above Kapa’a town on the east side of the island. – Meredith

A quick note to say greetings from the island of Kauai where we have been since Monday. The flights from Mongolia to here were uneventful and we’ve enjoyed the last 6 days here using the town of Kapa’a as our home base to explore. We’ll describe what we did here in a separate post. Tomorrow […]