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Category: Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Saturday 2nd June – Where to live if you are rich and famous

June 2, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today is our final day in LA and because we are flying home this evening we decided that we would

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Friday 1st June – All about space

June 2, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today was all about the science museum which is actually quite a long way out of town, but we managed

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Thursday 31st May – I’m ready for my closeup!

June 1, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

This afternoon we have a tour of Paramount Studios booked so we decided to walk to the metro station to

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Wednesday 30th May – Hollywood and up market shopping

May 30, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We started today by walking back down to Hollywood Boulevard as we hadn’t really looked round that area the other

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May 29th May – All about the beaches

May 30, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today was forecast to be warmer than yesterday so we thought we had picked a good day to go to

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Monday 28th May – Downtown LA

May 29, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We decided to walk down Sunset Boulevard to Hollywood Boulevard today rather than get on the bus again, although it

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Sunday 27th May – LA and a Dodgers game

May 28, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

The flight was uneventful but actually shorter than I thought because of the time difference so we only managed to

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Saturday 26th May – the end of the island adventure

May 27, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We have a 11pm flight today so we had an extremely relaxed start, breakfast in the room followed by packing

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Friday 25th May – To the bottom and the top

May 26, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today we drove to the southern most point on Hawaii and by definition the southern most point in the USA.

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Thursday 24th May – Relaxation and then a journey to the stars

May 25, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today we don’t have anything planned until this afternoon so we decided to take the opportunity to do some laundry

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Wednesday 23rd May Up, up and away again!

May 24, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We were scheduled to go on a helicopter flight around the volcano this morning, unfortunately because we are now staying

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Tuesday 22nd May Pu’uhonua o Honaunau a land of refuge

May 23, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We got up this morning and set off for the south of the island. The drive down was past a

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Monday 21st May – to the Big Island

May 22, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

An early start today as we have a 9.15 flight to the Big Island, we should be staying in Volcano

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Sunday 20th May – Airborne view of the islands

May 21, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We had a very relaxed start to the day today as we have booked a helicopter ride around the island

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Saturday 19th May – to the land of the Gods

May 20, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today we decided to drive to the summit of Haleakala which is the Volcano that forms the lower part of

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Friday 18th May – Hana highway

May 19, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Today our plan was to drive the Hana highway which is meant to be a scenic drive down to Kaupo

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Thursday 17th May – Aloha Maui

May 18, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We had a very civilised flight time which was at 10:00 so we didn’t have to leave the hotel until

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Wednesday 16th May – Waimea Canyon two ways

May 17, 2018 Xanthe Uncategorized, Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We decided to drive through Waimea Canyon this morning despite the fact that we are going to do a down

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Tuesday 15th May – Capt Andy Snorkel and Sail

May 16, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

For reasons that made total sense when we were in the UK today we have booked on a sailing trip

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Saturday 12th May – Shorelines and the Plantation

May 16, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

For some reason we woke up early so after breakfast we went to the shop / deli over the road

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Monday 14th May – Farewell to Honolulu Aloha Kauai

May 15, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We set off for our second island today, it seems strange that we had to allow 1.5 hours for security

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Sunday 13th May – Raging Sea’s and Rain Forrest’s

May 14, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Our plan today was to drive up the eastern side of the island and across the top, so after we

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Friday 11th May – Exploring Historic Honolulu

May 12, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

After breakfast we set off in search of Honolulu town which is about three miles from Waikiki where we are

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Thursday 10th May – Honolulu here we come

May 11, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

I don’t think either of us slept very well as we had the alarm set for 2:45 as we were

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Wednesday 9th May – To the top of the world

May 10, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

Our final day in Las Vegas so we decided to have a go on the monorail, we walked down to

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Tuesday 8th May – Exploring Las Vegas Boulevard

May 9, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

We both woke up quite early today but certainly more alive than yesterday. We decided we would go to a

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Monday 7th May – To Vegas to win our fortune

May 9, 2018 Xanthe Vegas, Hawaii, LA 2018

After what seemed like a very long flight we finally arrived in Las Vegas at about 1.30pm. One of the

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