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From the category archives:
Today it was my turn to post a haiku on my haiku web site, Haiku By Two.
Winter is getting long here in Minnesota and my mind has turned to vacation dreaming. This is what I wrote about in today’s haiku.
Vacation dreaming and a place I’ve recently learned exists . . . a place called Haiku, [...]
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Whenever I go roaming from home, I’m on the lookout for Che.
In Hawaii, my mission was no different.
However, after nine days on the Big Island, I didn’t spot my Che.
But I did run across a life-size version of his good buddy, Fidel. For this trip, I guess he’ll have to suffice.
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During our recent trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, we spent an afternoon and evening touring Volcano National Park.
We got hungry though, and looking for snacks, we left the park behind and headed into the nearest town, which is named (appropriately enough) “Volcano.”
There, in the aisles of the itty bitty grocery store, while [...]
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We covered a lot of ground in our eight days here on Hawaii. We made it to three of the Big Island’s four corners.
Since our first little road trip took us to the north-east tip of the island where the road ends at the Pololu Valley, we thought it appropriate to take a morning [...]
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I accomplished my Hawaiian mission. I got to see lava in action.
We headed to the southern end of the Big Island hoping to see some spewing orange.
The trip was a bit of a gamble as it required a few hours in the car and we wouldn’t know whether or not we’d see the [...]
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We played at being “paniolos” today. Paniolo, we’ve learned since landing here, is the Hawaiian word for cowboy.
We headed to Na’alapa Stables, high up on the green grasslands of the big island’s northern tip.
For almost three hours we rode through endless fields and herds of cattle. And we also stared in wonder at [...]
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