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Passport

I found this on Linked-in this morning: ‘Vaccine passport’ needed to fly? Share By Jake Perez, Editor at LinkedIn News Updated 1 day ago 12/29/2020 While coronavirus vaccines are distributed around the world, a Geneva-based nonprofit is teaming up with airlines and The World Economic Forum to create a “vaccine passport” app to ease air travel during the pandemic.Continue reading “Passport”

Sept 2018 Return from Hawaii

After spending a week in Hawai’i in September of 2018, we were scheduled to return on a flight out of Kona at 10 PM on United Airlines. We arrived at the airport around 7:30 PM and returned the rental car. The shuttle dropped us off at the terminal and we proceeded through the TSA gauntletContinue reading “Sept 2018 Return from Hawaii”

November 2020

I sit and I wait. It was a rush to get to the airport so that I could sit and wait. It was a hassle at the check-in kiosk. I thought that the purpose of the kiosks was so that you didn’t have to wait in line. There was a line waiting for the kiosks.Continue reading “November 2020”

Ocean View

2017 Late in 2017, we made a trip to Kona to continue with our journey towards a vacation home/ retirement home/shack on the beach. We met with a realtor from Hilo and toured some interesting locations. We looked at a three acre parcel north and west of Ocean View Ranchos, a sprawling subdivision in aContinue reading “Ocean View”

Doctors and Hospitals

September 29, 2018 How do you find a doctor on the far south end of the big island of Hawaii? One that is on your Arizona health insurance network? On a Saturday morning? Phone calls to the 800 number of the health insurance network go to an automated recording . . . “Our office hoursContinue reading “Doctors and Hospitals”

September 28, 2018

We flew United Airlines from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Then changed planes and continued on to Kona. We left Phoenix at 10:45 AM and arrived in Kona at 7:50 PM. There was a great sunset view from the plane as we crossed the Pacific Ocean above the clouds. We picked up a rental car atContinue reading “September 28, 2018”

March 2020

As I look out the window, the only thing I can see is the ocean. And the wing of the plane, of course. There is a thin layer of clouds toward the horizon and below us, but looking directly down (as well as I can through the window of a plane) the water below usContinue reading “March 2020”

A little bird once told me . . .

One of my favorite spots to spend a few hours in the afternoon is along the shore line to the east of Whittington Pier. Whittington Pier is an old pier that has long been abandoned Also known as Honuapu, this was once the site of a busy sugar cane center with a huge pier thatContinue reading “A little bird once told me . . .”

Crazyness

This pandemic is crazy. Maybe it’s just the people, but this is driving me up a wall. If the government thinks that someone has been killed, they cannot just start locking up everyone. They have to be sure that they are locking up the correct person, and they have to have a warrant from aContinue reading “Crazyness”

Background

For the past ten years or more, we have been going to different locations looking for that perfect place for a beach getaway. Well, we still have not found it, but we bought two 1/2 acre lots in Hawaii a year and a half ago. We traveled to Mexico – Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco), CaboContinue reading “Background”