{"id":3765,"date":"2013-06-09T22:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2013-06-09T22:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:16:13","slug":"travel-review-may-16-2013-part-ii-hello-big-island-goodnight-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=3765","title":{"rendered":"Travel Review: May 16, 2013, Part II: Hello Big Island, Goodnight Sunshine!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a short 23 minute flight (Take-off to Touch-down), we arrived at Kona International Airport at Keahole. \u00a0From there, it was just a short half hour drive down to the Sheraton Kona Resort at Keauhou Bay, but we had to make a few stops along the way, of course, including lunch at McDonald’s and shopping at Ross Dress for Less \ud83d\ude42
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Panoramic view from our room’s balcony at the Sheraton Kona Resort at Keauhou Bay<\/p><\/div>\n

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Panoramic view from our room’s balcony at the Sheraton Kona Resort at Keauhou Bay<\/p><\/div>\n

After settling into the room for a while, we began to see the surf building and breaking on the lava cliffs right outside our balcony. \u00a0Here is a rapid fire sequence of shots I took of one of the bigger waves breaking on the lava:
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\u00a0As we left the resort to head to dinner in Kailua-Kona, I took these pictures of a unique “Hawaiian Style” vehicle, and I just realized I never posted them before now!<\/p>\n

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I thought this was really representative of “Hawaiian Style” You would never find this in Central New York! \u00a0This is quite a modification from what was originally a Mercedes Benz! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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I thought this was really representative of “Hawaiian Style” You would never find this in Central New York! \u00a0This is quite a modification from what was originally a Mercedes Benz! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Enjoying our first dinner in Kailua Kona, but we missed the sunset, as we got involved in wandering around and deciding where to eat dinner… Thus, Goodnight Sunshine for Today!<\/p><\/div>\n[sc:clickpic\u00a0]\n

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After a short 23 minute flight (Take-off to Touch-down), we arrived at Kona International Airport at Keahole. \u00a0From there, it was just a short half hour drive down to the Sheraton Kona Resort at Keauhou Bay, but we had to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigisland","category-hawaii-2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}