The World Surrounding Me

Part 2 of my trip summary: Hana, Maui From Sunday in Maui: Road to Hana If you’ve ever driven to Hana, the mere mention of “Road to Hana” probably either makes your stomach churn or brings to mind more shades of green than Crayola has heard of (or maybe both). And, if you’ve ever stayed [...]

Almost every time we met somebody in Maui and they asked where we were from, they’d say something like “Wow, Austin’s such a great town!” or “I hear that’s the best town in Texas” or just get all dreamy and say “Austin…” Inspired by those comments, and with much love for my adopted home town, [...]

I didn’t live-blog our trip, but I do think I’ll do a series reviewing our Hawaii trip. So, watch over the next week or so for posts about our recent visit to Oahu & Maui. Today’s topic: Honolulu But, before we get there, a word about American Airlines. I’m seriously considering, if we ever fly [...]

Steve captured our family photo after dinner last night. We were thankful for the remote on his camera, so we could capture the few hours we were all together. See it and read his comments here. My parents ought to be on their way from Hartford airport to their home by this time. Steve & [...]

You can find pics from our first day in Hawaii here: http://picasaweb.google.com/becky.laswell Not a lot so far, but I’m sure I’ll post other things later. I also imagine we’ll tell the story of our very long first day of vacation later. The short version – weather at DFW (which people we know who live near [...]

Like a lot of geeky people my age, I played a fair share of Tetris when I was a kid. I was glad for those hours of fitting blocks onto a grid during what I did today – packing suitcases. See the long orange block in this image? In the realm of packing, that’s a [...]

Photos from our recent trip to Maui are now up on our photo gallery. We had a great trip. Check out the photos, and imagine yourself there.

We were married 3 years ago today! I can’t really tell if that feels like just yesterday or forever ago – life as a married couple is so normal feeling, I guess. To celebrate (and because we both needed vacation pretty badly) we’re in Maui, Hawaii. Today, we tried something new and took surfing lessons [...]

In 2 weeks, we’ll be in (hopefully) beautiful sunny Maui. This will be our second trip to Hawaii (having visited Oahu in April 2007). Here are a few things we’re considering doing: Surfing Lessons. We booked them already, and though I don’t necessarily have a lot of confidence, I’m going to try! Beach time. The [...]