Small towns: They can be a curse. But more often than not, they are a BLESSING… especially when you’re new in town. My parents just moved to the island of Kauai, which is home to roughly 70,000 locals. Even with this many people inhabiting the beautiful island, it still maintains a small-town feel. Since the […]
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Dear Beloved Left Foot Havaiana, I purchased you (and your right foot twin) my Senior year in college. You were cute, comfortable, and matched with everything I wore. 5 years later, you were still holding strong. So in January, 2012, I packed you in my backpack to take you on a year-long journey around the […]
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OK people… confession time. We have noticed it. You have definitely noticed it. And we promise to be better. I’m talking about the onslaught of sponsored activities we have gone on in the last few months and all of the articles they have generated. Our sponsored articles are generally written about fun activities, but also […]
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A staycation (also spelled stay-cation, stacation, or staykation) is a neologism for a period in which an individual or family stays and relaxes at a hotel or motel close (~5 km) to their residence. ~Source: Wikipedia We have been living with my folks in their new home on the island of Kauai since the beginning […]
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Travel budgets… Everyone talks about them, but what do you really know? Before we left on our trip, I read dozens of articles on how much it costs solo travelers as well as couples. While trying to compare budgets between different travel itineraries and travel styles is difficult, it at least gave us a rough […]
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As much as I love the beautiful island of Kauai, it certainly has more than a few places that cater to tourists. After a month on the island, I was craving to go behind the curtain and explore the true local culture. And by local culture, what I really mean is the local food. I […]
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Whatever I had imagined a luau to be… the Luau Kalamaku on the Kilohana Plantation was definitely not it. More of a large-scale Disney style theatrical production than a cheesy hula skirt dance show, there were stages scattered throughout the dining hall with a large elevated stage handling most of the action in the middle. […]
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If you have been following our blog in 2012, you are probably well aware now that Tony and I ate PHENOMENAL food on our RTW trip. We were fortunate enough to travel to some cities with exceptional food scenes (Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin) and even got to travel to countries that served up our favorite […]
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