Archive for April, 2008

Affordable Hawaii 2008

Airfares are up, and some are worried the Hawaii tourism industry may suffer as a result. Of course travel wasn’t exactly cheap a few months ago when the industry saw a big increase in winter visitors over the previous year.
Whether or not Hawaii travel will be affected for long by the [...]

Killer Vog?

April 10, 2008. On Tuesday a reversal of the normal tradewind pattern brought a cloud of volcanic gas (”vog” = volcanic smog) into portions of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park normally open to visitors. The Park was quickly shut down, and some two thousand visitors were quickly ushered out of the area. [...]