Hoop Trek Travel

On our first morning in Hanalei, we awoke to the sound of someone not so pleasantly knocking on our tent at 6am. I covered myself with a blanket and stuck my head out of the tent still cloudy from too many Longboard Lagers the night before, “Say huh?” The man dressed in park ranger garb [...]

I am a total defensive pessimist meaning I spend a lot of time worrying about all the things that can go wrong in any given situation.  This may sounds like a pretty crappy way to live (unless you too have a defensive pessimist qualities), but it is actually quite adaptive. In most cases, imagining the [...]

Located at the end of Highway 270 on the Big Island of Hawaii lies the gorgeous and pristine Pololu Valley.  Once inhabited by Native Hawaiians, the valley is now deserted except for a herd of cattle and a few stray hippies.  Pololu is the northernmost of a chain of nearly inaccessible valleys stretching the northwestern [...]