Eleven

Yes, dear readers, Butterblogger is off, again, to Italy. This is his 11th trip, and this time he is going with his old friend, G. At the moment we are at JFK airport watching the many planes taxiing for our amusement. We both really like the livery of Egypt Air. To recap my prior trips […]

Away But Not Forgotten

Butterblogger is back, my friends. The blog has long languished while your dear scribe has spent the last 5.5 months without using a single day of vacation. No whining from this end (perhaps a little), however, because balance must return to the universe, and likewise your blogger guide to the world has arisen again, with […]

Back to the Mainland and the Tundra

Morning came too soon and we had a quick, albeit boring, breakfast at the hotel. D dropped me off at Kona Airport. This, again is an outdoor airport. That’s the boarding area. My first flight took me to Honolulu. I like Hawaiian Airline. Perhaps I should try to fly them more often. Next flight was […]

NightSwimming

The next morning we wake to yet another deluge on the roof of the house where we are staying. It is louder, even, than the frogs. The frogs. Oh the frogs. I wish I could see one. I imagine it is tiny with an outsized voice. After breakfast we are on our way toward Kona. […]

At the End of the Road

This island (ie Hawai’i, or “The Big Island”) has 10 of the world’s 15 climatic zones. We are staying in the rainforest zone, hence the frogs. And ya know what? There really is plenty of rain – torrential rains woke us early in the morning. The nice thing about this island is it isn’t as […]

SPAM!!!

Another night with the frogs. Oh the frogs. I never understood the plague of frogs – what could be so bad about frogs? Well as I have now discovered, left unabated, they’re incredibly incredibly loud. I’m betting the frogs in the plague were tree frogs. If they were sizeable frogs, like bullfrogs, the Egyptians would […]