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Making Family Connections at Pearl Harbor

Making Family Connections at Pearl Harbor

Posted on June 13, 2011

Poignant, inspiring, sad, thoughtful, important. Those are the words I jotted down in my notebook as I toured the newly expanded WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument and associated Pearl Harbor Historic Sites on Oahu earlier this month. To be frank, I didn’t know much about the site before I visited — my childhood [...]

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Oahu with Tweens and Teens

Oahu with Tweens and Teens

Posted on June 8, 2011

This story originally appeared here on FamilyVacationCritic.com: My husband Quent and I left the kids at home for a recent five-night trip to Oahu. We would have loved to have brought them along, but with school still in session (not to mention the additional airfare it would cost us) they stayed back in Colorado with [...]

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