Another FREEBIE will be posted in about a month — stay tuned for more details! I’m excited to introduce my first “serious book”, which is all about starting your own business. Over the years, I’ve created several businesses—some were just learning experiences, while a couple became major successes that now allow us to split our time […]
Beekeeping in Hawaii 2024
We visited HānI Bee Farm earlier this year. I have always been fascinated by bee farms, and my interest has only deepened over the past couple of decades with increasing reports of their alarming decline. Now that I’m writing books (more on that in future posts), I even considered writing one about starting your own […]
Utah Badlands Drone Workshop
In October 2024, I joined a 3-day drone workshop in the Utah Badlands. In many photo tours I take, I am mostly just wanting to be taken to photogenic sites where I can apply my skills to come back with interesting photos. In this workshop, I had hoped to learn more about how to get […]
Dinosaurs!
Dear Friends Wishing everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. We’re back in Cuenca, Ecuador for the holidays and working on a new project during our retirement years. This post is a bit different from our normal blog posts, since it does not involve travel. Instead, this announces our new business venture — publishing […]
Video – Living in Ecuador as an Expat
Since joining the Eyes of Hawaii photography club in Honolulu, several people were asking me about what it was like to live in Ecuador. Being a photography club, I decided the best way to explain it was by creating a slide show / video for them. In looking over our photographic resources from our living […]
Hawaii – Bishop Museum
We visited the Bishop Museum in Honolulu today. For us, the most captivating display was easily the 10 animatronic dinosaurs, shown in the short 45 second video above. Watch to the end to see Evelyn’s reaction… ☺ The Bishop Museum is primarily comprised of three main exhibit buildings, plus a planetarium that was closed due […]
Hawaii – Pearl Harbor
We spent the morning at the Pearl Harbor Memorial today. The upper image shows the most famous building of the memorial, which is a building sitting over the USS Arizona, sunk during the attack on December 7, 1941. We went during neutral tide, and the small piece of rusted stack (lower left) is the only […]
Kerry Jones, the Graduate
It has been four years since we last visited California. This time we came to attend our favorite niece’s graduation from UC Santa Barbara. Kerry graduated with high honors in Chemistry/Biochemistry. She will be starting her Ph.D. program in Organic Chemistry at UC Berkeley, ranked one of the top programs in the world, next month (July 2018). We […]
Cooking With Fire
We have heard about La Yunta since shortly before we went on our Turkey adventure last March. This is a restaurant / tienda / deli that is about a 15 minute drive out of Cuenca, enroute to Loja. Being so far out in the sticks, they have to be creative to get people to come. […]
Wineries and Cooking Class
We wrapped up a four day stay in Mendoza, Argentina today by taking a cooking class at the Familia Zuccardi winery in Maipu. We started by making bread dough, then making stuffed bread after it has risen for awhile. To be honest, our first bread was pretty dense and not very good… 🙁 We also […]
