While Hawaii is a common vacation destination, more so for those living in California, I never visited any of the islands until I was well over 40. That was mostly because it was just too expensive to get there. It also isn't the sort of vacation I was interested in when I was on my own. In the past decade, however, I've been able to travel many places that I couldn't before. And I've been blessed to have someone to travel with. Starting in 2006, I traveled to the Big Island with Sandy and we returned again in 2009 when we were married there. We went back again in 2012 and in the years between we made two trips to Kauai. This gallery contains a number of photographs from all of those trips.