The Hawaii Traveler

Today’s guest posts is from Mary Jo Manzanares, Travel & Culture Channel Editor and travel blogger at Flyaway Cafe.
“Hawaiian Eye” was a television series that ran from 1959 – 1963, and starred Robert Conrad and Anthony Eisley as crime fighting detectives in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The detectives hung out at the Shell Bar, where at least once an episode that ran into “Cricket,” a singer and photographer at the bar played by Connie Stevens. The bar was located at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, where the guys were house detectives and also had an office. Some viewers would swear that the guys …read more

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When the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson visited the islands, he was at the top of his game. He’d published Treasure Island and Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.  It was 1889, about fifty years after Herman Melville visited while making his way back from Tahiti. In 1873, Isabella Bird got off her boat on the way to New Zealand to assist a friend whose son had taken ill. Two years later, her letters about her stay were collected and published as a bestselling book titled Six Months in the Sandwich Islands.
Arguably none of them stayed and savored the islands like …read more

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With its friendly climate and limitless sources of comfort and shelter, there’s no doubt you’ve seen your fair share of pests on the islands, by which I mean insects, not your in-laws. We can’t all stay at the Ritz all the time (if ever), so the next time you’re roughing it, hotel-wise, consider this snazzy little device I heard about over at the Geeky Traveler.
Sherry describes the Electro-Magnetic Cockroach Expeller, but hasn’t had the use for one lately, thank goodness, and neither have I. It sounds easier than traveling with a gecko or chameleon (right). How about you? Have …read more

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