I’m reposting this blog as I read in Hawai’i News Now today that Kalaupapa National Historical Park on the Hawaiian island of Molokai will reopen public tours this month. The state temporarily suspended tours to the former leprosy settlement about five years ago due to the pandemic. Guided tours will begin in late September. Here’s what I wrote after a visit to the peninsula a few years ago. It was a lovely, warm day on Molokai’s Kalauapapa peninsula last July, and I was getting a tour of the area from local resident Rick Schonely. Schonely, a musician and high school sports Read more
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NAPILI BAY, MAUI – Arguably the best beach in North America. A fabulous, small hotel founded by Canadians. A terrific restaurant with awesome ocean, neighbour island and sunset views. Lush grounds filled with manicured lawns and tropical flowers of every colour. And a weekly show that brings together the funniest and most talented musicians in Hawaii. Yeah, it must be hard to market yourself when you’re the Napili Kai Beach Resort here on Maui. I’ve stayed in a lot of fancy places around the world, but there’s no hotel I’d rather come to than this one. Mind you, I first Read more
