Quote Originally Posted by indysteel View Post
But I'm not going to lie. At times, the breadth of the island and the logistics of it got to me. My husband can be maddening in this regard as he leaves most of that to me, although the fact that he did all the driving bears emphasizing. But I'm really glad we went and saw all that we saw. It's a place, I suspect, like no other. Where else can you (as we did) hike across a lava lake in the morning, snorkel in tidepools in the afternoon and then have Thai food in a town full of hippies?
OK, you just described me and my husband, so I suspect that your recommendations would be valid for us, too. ;-)

I'm not 100% sold on snorkeling. I've done it in Tahiti/Bora Bora and in Key West, so I don't know that it would be my first choice of activities on Hawaii. I'll have to check with my H on it though as his experience is significantly less. I'm also not sure how I feel about lava - though V's photo makes me reconsider!

And get this, Mr "I don't like B and B's so stop booking them for us" actually listed a B and B as his first choice of hotel type for Hawaii!! What is up with that?

Really, what we need to do it sit down and talk about our priorities together as I suspect that we may have different visions about what our Hawaiian vacation will look like. How much of what we do will need to be reserved in advance? Or can we wait until we get there and then just choose stuff as it strikes our fancy (which kind of freaks me out just thinking about it!!).