Mokihana's Garden

Back on da road again after stopping to watch the fisherman for a bit. This part of the trip marks the end of our time in Yellowstone, and I must admit I was feeling kinda wai maka about the whole thing. Our trip through was so wonderful but I longed for more time to explore this stunningly beautiful area of the world. Doing this road trip has been good for me, because I have the chance to re-live the wonderful memories we made there. I know we’ll be back! (more…)

Ho, long time no update, yeah? This is why. Like I said before, we’d saved my Canon camera memory card to take the video of Old Faithful with; I also had my old Nikon, and Nolemana had his Olympus and his small Panasonic.

My Canon had no memory left, so we started using whatever camera was the most handy, and so in trying to make some kind of consecutive narrative here, I had to try figure out which photo came next according to the time stamps on the photos. Because we weren’t nearly as organized as we were on our Montana trip this year. It took me a lot longer than I’d thought, because the other problem was that we forgot to set the correct time stamps before we left; and of course there were the time changes, too.
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I had so much fun doing the first video that I decided to make another one. This one is of the trip that my wonderful daughters and I made on Mother’s Day this year. (more…)

K’den. This time I’m not gonna say much, because the videos will speak for themselves. But do me a favor and turn your volume down so you don’t get blasted out by my whoo-hooing. I sound stupit. Sigh. (more…)

K’den. Back to Yellowstone. Warning: If you don’t like water and steam as well as lots of photos of it, turn back now. You have been warned! (more…)

Ho, hard foa catch up! Especially since we went on another road trip to Montana. I figure that I’ve got at least a year of road trip photos to share. Hold on for the ride… unless it’s too boring. Then come back anyway, because I’ll write about other stuff too. (more…)

I’m so excited! Sometimes Nolemana gives me a hard time for wanting to take so many photos, but because I do, I’m now an official honorary Japanese. I was one before because of my hānai sistah Kikue, but never had the official title. Now I do, thanks to her and AFK! Chee hoo!

You might have already guessed this, probably did, all you akamai readers, that we wanted to see Old Faithful Geyser as long as we were so close. My good friend Linda had suggested that we take the time to zip over there from Bozeman, and that’s exactly what we decided to do. She’d told me that it wasn’t to be missed, because who knew when we’d be able to be in the area again? As I said before, I was so grateful for her suggestion, because we wouldn’t have missed this trip for anything!

This is the sign for the Norris Canyon area:

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Thanks to Molly (from the last post) I figured out that I could make a GoogleMap showing where we’ve been as a non-aerial map (though I still like those too). This is how far we’ve come so far if I’ve done it right. Give it a second to load.

View Montana Road Trip, October 2009 in a larger map

Chee hoo! That worked! Though you have to zoom out to see the whole thing. You can also hold down your mouse key and view from side to side, or zoom in to get up close. You can also look at the aerial or terrain view! The terrain view is really interesting. Mahalo Molly and Google! (more…)

We were just about to enter Yellowstone! This shot of Gardiner is around the corner from the main street we’d come in on. In the middle of the left-hand side, you can see the corner of something spectacular.

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Up from the mirey clay of Mokihana’s brain we go. Heh heh. You know, when I’m doing a road trip advencha I tend to be more, you know, more practical. Here we are, there we were, etc. How boring. I’ll try to interject some incredibly creative comments along the way. If can, can; if no can, no can, yeah? (more…)

Okay den, gangeez, this episode starts one major advencha for the White ‘ohana! U like know hakum? Well, I’m gonna show you in a minute. But first I need to say that we almost couldn’t go because of all the snow that had come in overnight, which would’ve been major disappointing. But Cousins checked road conditions for us and saw that the roads were clear, so here we go! (more…)

After having lunch with Auntie, Nolemana and I headed back into town to buy a pair of much-needed new windshield wipers. No way I was gonna have a repeat of the night before!

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On a road trip like the one we were on, you can be just zooming along the highway enjoying the sights. Which is really pretty special when you’re driving through country you’ve never seen before.
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Before I start posting more photos, I want to tell you folks who are riding along with Nolemana, Kukui, Musubi, and me how much it means to me that you take time to read this humble little blog of mine. I don’t always know who you are, but I so appreciate all of you. When I first started this blog I had absolutely no knowledge of how to do one. I didn’t know how to upload photos, I felt kind of silly for even thinking that anyone besides me would read it. So mahalo nui loa, thank you very much, whoever you are, known and unknown, for tagging along on this amazing trip of a lifetime! Please feel free to share your comments; I love reading them. (more…)

K’den. It was now about 9:54 a.m. (I think I messed up the time on my previous posts… I forgot that we’re now in Mountain Time.) Here we were just East of St Regis, Montana. Still on the wrong side of the freeway, that was really the right side because we were told to drive there. Right?

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Oh my gosh, the photos in this post can’t show how excited I was when we took them. I felt like the people on the Starship Enterprise, going where no man I had never gone before. My dad’s wanderlust blood in my veins was pounding! I was so jazzed that I could hardly sit still… and I was driving! (more…)

Last time, I showed you the sight we would’ve been able to see from the hill above Lewiston, Idaho, if it hadn’t been dark. In gathering maps and info for this post, I discovered something else, that had I known about it, would’ve guaranteed that we’d gotten on the road much earlier so that we could’ve seen it.

What could that be, you ask? I’m gonna show you! (more…)

I had a couple of people say they really liked the maps I’ve been providing, so I thought I’d show where we’ve been so far. We’ve come so many miles that I can’t make it closer though. On this map, it doesn’t look very far!

We’d passed the main part of the downgrade though we were still going downhill. We had no idea what was up ahead of us, and we were in for a wonderful surprise. (more…)

After leaving Dayton, we were out on the open highway again. All of us (Nolemana, Kukui, Musubi, and I) were thoroughly enjoying the trip. It was a real advencha, seeing parts of the country we’d never seen before; it was almost too much to take in. This was fifteen minutes north of Dayton.

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In the last post, Nolemana, Kukui, Musubi and I were driving along Columbia River Highway. To the side of us was Lake Wallula, which was formed when McNary Dam was built on the mighty Columbia River.

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