Hawaii Honeymoon – The Big Island.
October 27th, 2006Honolulu Hawaii
Kim and I flew into Oahu Monday evening. We caught a shuttle downtown to Waikiki to stay at a hostel for the night. Yesterday we hiked to Diamond Head crater, which gave us a nice view of the city. We hung out on the beach at Waikiki for a little while before we took a shuttle right back to the airport to catch a flight to the big island of Hawaii where we are now. Today we’re going to get all our permits in line for the Na Pali coast on Kauai and figure out camping in Volcanoes National Park.
Thao and Tai’s Wedding
October 15th, 2006An Inconvenient Truth
Who’d ever have thought that listening to Al Gore give a slide show presentation could make and entertaining movie? I didn’t, but I was wrong. An Inconvenient Truth turned out to be another really great documentary. I thought going in that there wouldn’t be anything new since I felt I had done a bit of research on climate change – wrong again. There was plenty of interesting new information, and it was presented very, very well. I’m amazed at the amount of work that Al Gore has done on this topic: visiting both poles, giving 1000 presentations on the topic, visiting heads of countries to discuss the issue, and much more.
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