TRIP

05/31/2024

Another Honolulu institution closing ☹️

Big City Diner, the old-school restaurant that’s been slinging comfort food like loco moco and kimchee fried rice in Kaimuki since 1998, is officially closing its Waialae Avenue location on Friday.

Even well-established eateries are struggling with high food costs, a shortage of workers and fewer Japanese tourists.

05/15/2024

American Cemetery Normandy

Lest we forget

With Laura Mayfield Fink

05/15/2024

Rangers Lead the Way !

Pointe du Hoc Normandy

With Laura Mayfield Fink

10/25/2023

Laura introduced Mary Ann Squires, from Austin, to the sacred sites of Kilauea volcano, Kukao`o heiau, Kawaiaha`o Church,and the Church cemetery for Congregationalist missionaries & their descendants.

07/25/2022

Tour Guide Laura and Driver Bruce Fink's next stop south of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii was the National Historic Park of Pu`uhonua o Honaunau, "City of Refuge." Kapu breakers had chance of a reprieve from the death sentence if they reached the heiau. Behind Laura and Bruce is the reconstructed Hale o Keawe, which once held the `iwi (bones) of twenty-three ali`i (chiefs). Pa Pu`uohonua (the massive wall) was built in the 1500s and is 950'+ long, 12' tall, and 18' thick. It is a fabulous example of dry-stack masonry (no mortar). No visit is complete without a photograph of the wood ki`i.

07/25/2022

Tour Guide Laura and Driver Bruce Fink took Texas friends to "The Painted Church" south of Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii. 1899-1904 Belgian priest Fr. Velge (St. Damien was also a Belgian priest) disassembled St. Benedict's church, moved it up the hillside; and, after reassembling it, painted the inside with Biblical scenes.

07/25/2022

Hallelujah! Tour Guide Laura visited the grave of Henry Opukaha`ia, overlooking Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii. If it weren't for Henry, the Congregational missionaries may not have come to Hawaii in 1820. Driver Bruce Fink and Laura took friends from Texas sightseeing on the Big island.

07/17/2022

07/17/2022

Honeymooners from Korea took this picture of Ohio nurse Karla Mintus and myself, in front of the King Kamehameha statue. Karla had one day off during her two-week stay on Oahu; so, we made the most of the day with an 8AM - 8PM tour.