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The Return to Waikiki

Chocolate cake. Those two words best describe Waikiki on the Hawaiian island of Oahu; good in small doses, but sickening if you get too much. After returning for a week, we overdosed! Three years ago we spent three nights in Waikiki before heading to the island of Kauai. We had expected to hate Waikiki, but ended up liking it a lot. Here is what...

Books That Make You Want to Travel

Whoa, my wife wrote another blog post. This is the manly disclaimer stating that I did not write this and find reading books “decadent” and “luxurious.” So check out some of her favorite books (and some of mine, too) – Jason I love reading books! A decadent, luxurious day for me is to curl up with a good book in b...

The Route for our Round the World Trip

Oh, the places we will go In order to travel round the world it is usually necessary to have a plan; or at least a compass bearing in which way to circle the globe. I guess someone could, and probably has, aimlessly wandered from place to place and eventually made a loop. When we travel we are more of the point A to point B type of people with a...

Day Trip to Nicaragua

On our visit to Costa Rica a few months ago we were staying really close to the Nicaraguan border. Having grown up in the 1980′s it was hard to not have seen Nicaragua in the news. Nicaragua was like a scab to the Reagan administration and they could not stop picking at it. Before the CIA’s covert operations and Reagan’s embarg...

Nikon 50mm f/1.8D lens: There’s a purple spot in the middle of my photo!

Ahh… the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D lens. An optical masterpiece that no Nikon DSLR owner should be without; especially since it is Nikon’s cheapest lens that is still manufactured today. Every online Nikon lens review loves this lens and can find no fault in it. Well, I found one. A big one! Big enough that it has ruined a few photos and I am consid...