We had a decent night sleep but since most of the windows didn't have blinds we woke up with the sun. Thankfully the host agreed to help us get back up the hill. Otherwise it would have taken us a few hours and multiple trips to walk all our stuff up. The kids and I,… Continue reading Captain Cook to Hilo: Bike Adventure Day 7

Well today was not my favorite. It started off nicely. The bed and breakfast we stayed at was so beautiful and peaceful. The kids loved playing ping pong and air hockey. The host showed us some home footage of the volcano eruption last year. Then we took off about 10am and it immediately sucked. As… Continue reading Naahelu to Captain Cook, HI: Bike Adventure Day 6

We decided to have a lazy morning in our rental house. It was really nice to wake up at 6:30 🙄 and not rush out the door. We finally left around 11 and of course it was drizzling. R woke up still sounding awful so we knew she was just going to hang in the… Continue reading Volcano to Naahelu, HI: Bike Adventure Day 5

Well, at least I can say I survived the day... We climbed over 4K in elevation gain today. It also took us 6 hours from leaving the hotel to arrive at our rental house. This doesn't include a long leisurely lunch stop. There wasn't one! 28.8 miles of mostly up hill. Yeah we knew today… Continue reading Hilo to Volcano, HI: Bike Adventure Day 4

Our goals for today were to play another round of golf and to surprise the kids with a movie. We managed to accomplish both of these. 😁 R decided to join team sickness by waking up super congested. We are sharing one hotel room, and numerous water bottles, I'm not totally surprised. After another hotel… Continue reading Hilo, HI: A non-adventure Day

We woke up nice and early, like most vacations with kids. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Had a so-so breakfast in the hotel. (Side note, our hotel is just average, we wouldn't recommend it but we wouldn't say not to stay here) then we grabbed our bikes and headed off to find this local Catholic Church, Malia Puka O… Continue reading Hilo, HI: Adventure Day

I went into today knowing that it was going to be a long day. We were riding over 40 miles to get to Hilo, but once there we'd have 3 days to rest! Totally worth it right? We slept terribly because for some reason L's cough came back last night. He was up with a… Continue reading Honokaa to Hilo: Bike Adventure Day 3

I mentally was preparing myself for a hard ride. Climbing 3k feet pretty much nonstop sounded intense! We woke up a bit early and got ready quickly. Amazing how you can do that without kids around. The only concern was Ty sounded really sick. All night long I could hear him coughing. But being Ty… Continue reading Hapuna to Honokaa, HI: Bike Adventure Day 2

We literally spent the whole day at the pool and the beach. It was glorious! With views like this, why leave? - We had found that broke boogie board at the beach the day before and it was perfect for the kids still. L played in the pool nonstop all morning long till we finally… Continue reading Hapuna, HI: Laziest Adventure Day Ever

L woke us all up about 6:15 and we had wanted an early morning start for our ride. Maybe not this early but we figured, why not. #vacationwithkids 😄 We made breakfast of food bagels, yogurt, and bananas. Got ourselves dressed and packed up all the last minute items into our paneers. I'm sure the… Continue reading Kailua to Hapuna, HI: Bike Adventure 1