You know that anxiety feeling of getting ready for a one week vacation with the overwhelming amount of decisions and options that you must choose and can no longer put off? Will you pack enough? Will you pack too little? Will you need to dress up? What if your luggage gets lost? Will you get sick? What...

Do Scots wear anything under their kilts? We found the answer to that after a seriously crazy night in Edinburgh, Scotland. A few years ago my wife, brother, and I found ourselves in Edinburgh, Scotland for one night. None of us had ever been there before and we had no idea what to do, other than to...

I awoke from a dream at 2am this morning. It wasn’t the type of startling dream where you are falling or someone is chasing you; it was worse. I dreamt that I was standing on a dock at a marina admiring a small sailboat that a couple of friends just bought. When all of a sudden a massive cruising sailboat...

After only two days of being stuck in the concrete jungle of Waikiki we needed a break. We were planning on hiking Diamond Head the next day and visiting the Polynesian Cultural Center the day after that. But on this day we really could not find anything that sounded exciting. Since we did not have a...