{"id":18908,"date":"2022-10-09T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18908"},"modified":"2022-10-01T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:45:34","slug":"travelling-the-50-states-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/travelling-the-50-states-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling The 50 States – Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over my 47 years, I’ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 30 states I have visited (60% isn’t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical order, we start today with the 50th state to be added to the Union: Hawaii.<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong> Hawaii
\nJoined the Union:<\/strong> 1959
\nVisits:<\/strong> 2<\/p>\n

I’ve made two trips to the Hawaiian Islands, located in the\u00a0Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland, first in 2019<\/a> and then again earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Way back in 2019, I made my first visit to the island of Oahu, arriving the first Saturday in February.\u00a0 After a day of checking out my surroundings around the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort and down Waikiki Beach, I took a tour of the island of Oahu on Monday, with stops at Hanauma Bay, Nu\u2019uanu Pali lookout, Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, Sunset Beach, Waimea Falls, and the Dole Plantation.\u00a0 Tuesday, I took in a whale watching cruise, where we were able to see multiple whales surfacing during the excursion.\u00a0 After a day of relaxation on Wednesday, I traveled to Pearl Harbor on Thursday to see all of the associated attractions and museums.\u00a0 I enjoyed another day of relaxation on Friday before heading home on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Following a long pandemic, and nearly two years of working from home, I decided to break out in a big way this past January.\u00a0 Using airline vouchers left over from my cancelled trips of 2020, I booked a two-week trip, returning to the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort for the first week and staying in a lesser hotel for the second.\u00a0 Not knowing how the pandemic would impact the local tourist offerings, I decided to play it safe and go for ultimate relaxation.\u00a0 My days were spent reading by the pool, taking the occasional swim, both in the ocean and in the pool, and listening to music and podcasts.\u00a0 It was heaven.<\/p>\n

The second week I was working remotely, meaning my days usually started at 4AM local time.\u00a0 This let me wrap up the workday around noon, when I would usually head back over to the resort, to enjoy some of the outdoor spaces, or the beach.\u00a0 All told, I racked up seven books and two week’s worth of 10,000+ step days.<\/p>\n

Will I return?\u00a0 Absolutely, although I would like to check out some of the other islands on future trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over my 47 years, I’ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 30 states I have visited (60% isn’t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[8543,8538,10185,8539,1469,8541,8540,8252,8542,551],"class_list":["post-18908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-dole-plantation","tag-hanauma-bay","tag-hilton-hawaiian-village","tag-nuuanu-pali-lookout","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-sunset-beach","tag-valley-of-the-temples-memorial-park","tag-waikiki-beach","tag-waimea-falls","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18913,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions\/18913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}