View From Here - Hawaii Travel Blog

Plan a trip

Check-In

Check-Out

Adults

Children

Rooms

Promo Code

Special Rates

Check Availability

AAA/CAA Rate

Kamaaina Rate

Senior 50+ Rate

Airline Employee Rate

Government Rate

Travel Industry Rate

Travel Club Rate

Special rates require proof of eligibility at check-in

You're one step closer to paradise...

View From Here - Hawaii Travel Blog

Total Number of Entries - 491

|< < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >|

A Cazimero Christmas

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 12/19/2012

Destination: Oahu

When I was on Oahu for the Honolulu Marathon last week, I decided to balance my physicality with some art and culture. That is, I went to see Wicked playing at the Neal Blaisdell Center. I also went to see A Cazimero Christmas starring The Brothers Cazimero at the historic Hawaii Theatre in their three-show, one-weekend-only annual production.
Read More
Hana Got Adopted

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 12/13/2012

Destination: Kauai

Good news: Hana got adopted. She is now living in Ohio. Of all places. Here’s the story.
Read More
40th Annual Honolulu Marathon Moments

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sun 12/9/2012

Destination: Oahu

The first time tears pooled in the corners of my eyes was at the intersection of Ala Moana Boulevard and Piikoi. The skies had just darkened again after a round of fireworks lit up the pre-dawn Waikiki morning to celebrate the start of the 40th Honolulu Marathon. Big, burly guys with bullhorns hollared for bystanders to clear the road because the first racers were rolling through downtown Honolulu and about to round the corner. And I do mean rolling. A phalanx of bicyclists escorted the wheelchair racers through the 26.2-mile course. The crowd responded with cheers, a kind of verbal fist bump, and I teared up as a blur of wheels whizzed past me.
Read More
November in Photos

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 12/7/2012

I’ve had some juicy assignments this year. I’m the first to admit it. In a couple weeks, when I recap the year, one of the highlights will surely be the time I spent participating on Molokai at the Creative Photography for the Soul workshop. Like experiences that stick, this one came at a good time--at exactly the right time when my soul needed some creative inspiration. And believe me, I got it, as I hope these photographs convey.
Read More
Makauwahi Cave Curiosities

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 12/4/2012

Destination: Kauai

December 2nd was the first Sunday of the month, and so I found myself along Kauai’s south shore at Makauwahi Cave Reserve doing some docent work. Docent: That’s simply a title that gives me permission to talk. A lot. I get asked many questions at Makauwahi Cave Reserve, because the place doesn’t fit most people’s image of tropical Hawaii. In turn, it generates curiosity and wonder and a multitude of questions.
Read More
Hana Needs a Home for the Holidays

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 11/30/2012

Destination: Kauai

I wasn’t sure about going to the beach with Hana. Not everyone likes the ocean with its moving water. Some prefer a calmer surface. That’s why I chose Kalapaki on Kauai’s southeast shore. Kalapaki is a white-sand beach practically smack in the middle of Lihue. It’s a quarter-mile long with an easy, wide beach tucked behind a protective finger of land, which was once owned by Princess Ruth Ke’elikolani.
Read More
The Mexican Dancer in Hawaii

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 11/26/2012

Destination: Kauai

I call this guy the Mexican Dancer, because he was banded as a chick on Isla Guadalupe in 2003. For the past two years, I’ve watched him tilt his head to the sky on remote bluff of land on the North Shore of Kauai. I’ve seen him bow his head, shake it and dip his bill under a lifted bent wing--as if he’s sniffing his armpit. I’ve heard him whistle, moo and clack his bill. For two seasons, I’ve watched this 10-year-old Laysan albatross perform his species’ complex courtship dance.
Read More
The Deep Freeze of Makauwahi Cave

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 11/20/2012

Destination: Kauai

The first Sunday of every month, I drive to Mahaulepu on the south shore of Kauai. Not to go to the beach at Poipu. Not to golf at Kiahuna. Not to dine at the Beach House, Merriman’s Fish House, or any one of the many fine restaurants reachable via Kauai’s well-known Tree Tunnel, although sometimes, I do wind up at Puka Dog or Da Crack for a quick bite.
Read More
10 Tips for Creative iPhoneography for the Soul. Part Two.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 11/16/2012

Dewitt Jones’ longtime friend and fellow National Geographic photographer Rikki Cooke sat behind him. The two longtime friends couldn’t be more of a visual contrast. In place of Dewitt’s crisp Tommy Bahama look, Rikki wore t-shirts tinted with Molokai’s red dirt. But both Rikki and Dewitt wore the same puka shell bracelets, made by a local artist--and soon the purchase and “family crest” of my fellow workshop participants of Creative Photography for the Soul.
Read More
Creative Photography for the Soul. Part One.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 11/13/2012

I arrived on Molokai one Saturday afternoon as vog rolled in from the south and filtered the horizon in haze. It made for some interesting sunset photography. But the vog’s appearance also meant no cooling trade winds to take the edge off the intense sun, and so, in three words, it was hot. But the weather would change throughout the week, as it does in Hawaii.
Read More