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

This is a series on pushing yourself while exercising. It can be applied to any exercise, but in this series I’ll talk about running and walking/running up steps. Those are the two exercises that I do daily – one or the other. My Pushing Yourself Series Covers: 1. Getting Out the Door to Exercise. 2. [...]

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[ad#aim468x15anywhere] This is not a prank. Apparently this guy really did this. He’s the first. Maybe the last. I’m of the notion that you don’t want to push it too far if you’ve got a good (but dangerous) thing going. Sure, ham it up once for the cameras, and then get back to the drawing [...]

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Amazing panoramic view of Hanauma Bay on island of Oahu, Hawaii. Click for VERY large photo. Credit: Dave Tonnes of Panaviz. Snorkeling in Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii is one of my favorite life activities. The water is warm, clean, shallow and in many areas – safe. There is a natural coral reef that blocks large [...]

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Posts here at Aim for Awesome seem to be following an ‘awesome ocean experiences‘ theme lately, and I think that will hold true for a while until I just run out of ideas. This idea came to me as I was thinking about a time I was wade-fishing in the ocean at Fort Desoto park [...]

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This man, Fredrik Fransson, of Australia and his crew were sailing around in the South Pacific in August of 2006 near the small, island archipilego country of Tonga, when he and his boat crew were lucky enough to watch the birth of an island apparently! He says, “There was no wind so we slowly motored [...]

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