Living in Hawaii – Moving to Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island

As part of the “Best Place to Live in Hawaii” series I’m running through the islands and revealing my own personal preference for the best place to live on each Hawaiian island. Where is the best place to live on Maui? Where to live on my favorite island in the Hawaiian chain of islands is [...]

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View Larger Map It might have been this park that started my unholy obsession with hiking and climbing. I lived on Maui for over a year while working for a Maui resort management firm in Lahaina. I lived in Kahana, and I got a lot of days off and free time. Every chance I could, [...]

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Haleakala (in Hawaiian, “House of the Sun”) Haleakala National Park on Maui, Kula, HI 96790 Park office phone: 808-572-4400 One of my favorite activities on Maui is to drive up Haleakala National Park and walk around the crater. This is one of the most photogenic places on the island of Maui and anywhere in the [...]

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I had occasion to stay at a few hotels and condos in Maui before I found a cottage (ohana) to stay on Mahinahina Street in western Maui. It’s funny, but the best hotels in Maui are condos, not hotels at all. There are a couple beautiful hotels at the far southern end of Kihei that [...]

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Back in 2003-2004 Vern was living in a very, very small place on the island of Maui – and it was still $1100 per month. It was an Ohana – mother-in-law style cottage which is like saying a small building away from the main house. This house was only about 400 square feet and had [...]

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Glad you asked what there is to do on Maui … and even more glad that Liza at MauiBlog provided me some content today! Maui is, if I had to pick one, my favorite Hawaiian island. Maui No Ka Oi is hard to argue with. If you have a chance to go to Maui and [...]

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