Christmas With a Kitchen Eighty degrees, a moon just past full, Santa in an outrigger canoe, and dinner at your own table.

The Whales Come Back Before the Crowds Do The humpbacks are on their way back. Almost everybody waits until February to come and see them.

A meteor shower peaked over the island in the small hours of this morning. Here is how to be awake for the next one.

Four trails, one close to each of our neighborhoods, and the reason to be at the trailhead early. The best hour of a Maui day is the one most visitors sleep through.

When Something Breaks Things break in every home, including the one you rented for a month. Here is what happens next.

Four days, October 1 to 4, at the War Memorial Special Events Complex in Wailuku. It is the ninety-ninth, and last year more than a hundred thousand people came through the gates, on an island of about a hundred and sixty thousand residents.

Almost everybody books seven nights. Not because they worked it out, but because a week is the unit people think in. Seven nights is what a holiday is, so seven nights is what goes in the booking form. Then a strange thing happens, which we hear about constantly. Somewhere around day five, people start saying the same sentence to each other on the lanai. *We should have come for two weeks.*

The Car Question Most people get this wrong in one of two expensive directions. Here is the real answer.