by Ira | Jan 17, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
The pack is back together. Joy is sleeping on my lap and Coops is down at the end of the bed with his sweater on, all snuggled into Liz’s extra blanket, the pink one. This is home. Slept in. We woke up around 11, which means we got a full night’s sleep. Whew. Got up,...
by Ira | Jan 16, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I watched Fitzcarraldo on the flight home. It was so good! And by that I mean…it was very, very clunky in parts, I’m not actually sure that Klaus Kinski worked as the main character (in that he was tooooo crazy, maybe?) even though he certainly looked the part, the...
by Ira | Jan 16, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Our last full day. Sigh. It’s been a good trip. We went up to a spa today and got massages together. Afterwards, we both decided that getting massages is probably a great way to start a trip, at least in Hawaii, where everything is better the more you relax. The...
by Ira | Jan 15, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
We did an amazing tour today of an ahupua’a on Kauai called “Waipa.” It means, essentially, a subdivision of Hawaiian land. They were basically watersheds, and one group of people—with one person in charge—were responsible for each of these districts that had its own...
by Ira | Jan 13, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Making this another quick one because we get up early again tomorrow BUT… Woke up early and caught our boat tour out to the Napali coast…which was SPECTACULAR. We saw whales jumping and slapping their tails, we saw bottlenose dolphins who are apparently dicks, we saw...
