Our family scored an amazing invite down to party along the fish ponds in Kaaawa. The land here is amazing and has been used to film many movies. We recognized several scenes from one of our favorite shows,

I was speechless as we lifted off on the tiny flight plane. We caught views of the ridges on the mountains over the least inhabited island on our chain~ Molokai. It was amazing! There was still just enough

The voyage is always full of surprises~ glaciers floating past, whales popping up to take a breath, seals scurrying off of passing icebergs, bears foraging on salmon on the banks. Peace is this trip and

Enjoying the last harvests of summer on Oahu before the cool air takes over and what a better way than with a meal on the deck ending in exploding tastes of local limes in this overwhelming key lime recipe!

Fireweed explosion in front of Portage Glacier~ climbing up toward this glacier just outside of Anchorage, was incredible! The area was full of light in the summer and the sound of water within the glacier

Early morning walk in Kailua, Hawaii, watching storms brew as the breeze picks up- there’s peace all around. unfiltered, taken with my iPhone

We headed out in hopes of finding manta rays as we'd heard they loved to fly through the drop off at sunset. The waters were warm and the sky exploded with golden colors as the rays came through tickling

The tropical storm that hit Oahu this past week left areas washing in floods. As our storm drains picked up the pace and the winds subsided we took the bridge over the Old Pali and went through the jungles

Colors lit up the beach in oranges and golds, the water created a mirror image of cloud layers exploding in color~ we stared in awe feeling the day and peace wash over us until darkness fell. I caught

We started our hike on the edge of the cliffs and climbed down the limestone walls to the shore below. It was humid and green was spilling out of everything in the wet air. We passed patches of pandanas

Well we did it, this year we bought our first home and we needed to bless it with a request from our son~ a proper welcome whale greeting had to be made, hahahaha! I got to it the night before our son's

The last light beams of the day burst out below a hovering storm cloud covering everything with a golden glow. We all sat entranced until it spilled into the sea and then toasted~ what a beautiful life

We took an adventure today with some of my son's classmates and went up onto the top of the Pali Lookout through the jungle under the 100 year old abandoned highway~ it felt like we were on top of the

The sun reflected color across the water lighting up our plane in an orange glow. Cloud shadows streamed across our ceiling as we turned just leaving the island. Flying like this through the sky above

Peacocks have been thriving here on the Hawaiian islands for over 150 years! We hear their calls out in the evenings and early mornings along the edges of the jungles near our home. Our boy always laughs,

This valley sits in the heart of the north shore of Oahu, welcoming hikers with it's huge monkey pod trees creating a giant canopy over the massive garden landscapes leading up to it's falls. Cannon ball

We came across a local farm up the street from our home and got some fresh eggs so I just had to make them a main meal for the gang! We went down to our garden patch and picked as much as we could and

Pitaya is the fruit of a cactus indigenous to the Americas but it has been popularized by it's Chinese name huǒlóng guǒ, which means fire dragon flower. It grows and propagates easily throughout subtropical

We traveled through Borneo in hopes of seeing wild orangutans knowing that they only exist here and in a few colonies in Sumatra, dwindling in numbers due to habitat loss. We were so thrilled but a bit

We walked the shores of southern Thailand on the last night of our great journey around the world and watched the sun slip down behind the fishing boats like a giant orb. It was entrancing as the clear