Mother Earth is quite the crown jewel! How wonderful to discover her many treasures hidden and tucked away within all the nooks and crannies of the earth. Upon her abundantly rich and fertile soil, rest illuminated places (power centers) that naturally shimmer and shine beyond all space and time. One step upon her heavenly abode, one’s spirit is lifted and …
Gettin’ There: KIX to Osaka
One week from today. We leave Anahola early in the morning, hop a half hour plane from Lihue to Honolulu (LIH-HNL), tough out a long haul to Seoul (HNL-ICN) and finish up with a short flight to Osaka (ICN-KIX). OK, toughing it out is a stretch – we’re flying business class HNL-ICN-KIX (95,000 United miles and $84 in taxes). Two …
REFLECTIONS of MAUI…
This blog post is in honor of my Dad, Larry Mole Parker, who inspired me from a very young age to appreciate the beauty of light in everything I see… Larry will soon be celebrating his 70th birthday in Viet Nam and neighboring countries… Happy Birthday, Dad! ALOHA and ENJOY a little slice of paradise, our dear family and friends. …
MAGICAL MAMA MAUI
ALOHA from the North Shore of Maui where magic and aloha spirit blend together in a dance of ancient alchemic bliss revealing a magical world living and breathing beyond all time and space. MAMA MAUI Invites reflection and inspires a way of living life in a very beautiful way. So, when you visit be sure to soak in some of …
The Hana Lava Tube. Yes, I Said Lava Tube
We are traveling through another dimension on the road to Hana, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead—our next stop, the Hana Lava Tube. Lava in and of itself, is ridiculously cool, right? It is, after all, molten rock …
Aloha from Haiku, Maui
Aloha readers: Owl and I talk about you every day. I feel remiss in not sharing our every gecko, waterfall, bamboo forest and accidental nude beach with you, no matter how mundane that may sound. Tomorrow we leave for a night in Hana. We hear the drive out there is kinda nice. We’ll take some photos. Yesterday evening, we braved …
Leg 4: Hawaii and Asia
We leave Ventura early tomorrow morning, SBA-PDX-OGG. In 26 hours, we land on Maui. This is the fourth leg of our digital nomad adventures. Our return in February will take us right up to 2 years on the road. I’ve been making lists. In the final day, a varying carousel of emotions: ready confident excited nervous grateful blessed having fun …
Thoughts on Home from the Road
Where is home? We are repeatedly asked this. There is not an obvious answer. AliSun may reply, “home is wherever we are.” I have been calling Ojai our “home community.” We have no house to return to from the road. Just a modest office-slash-storage space holding the dwindling remains of the way we used to live. Having a home does …
Images From The Grand Canyon
I’ve traveled fairly far and rather wide over the past fifteen months, but going back ten years or more, one question I’ve never been able to answer in the affirmative: You’ve been to the Grand Canyon, right? And as we drove out in March, stayed in Sedona, had breakfast in Flagstaff and headed east on I-40 to Albuquerque and ultimately …
Hawaii and Asia Take Shape
A big, long trip is a life event. It stays with you, fills your soul with experience, colors your view. There is a lot to plan, but it is easier the second and third and fourth time around. It is exciting planting a seed and seeing the plant grow, flower, leaf, fruit. We considered destinations for the fall and winter. …