How I did it: One of my best friends asked me if I'd go to Hawaii with her. I struggled with my answer for about 2 seconds. I'm terrible at planning, but she is a whiz at it. Before I could get cold feet we were in the air. Hawaii made me rethink so many things... Amazing.

Took me 4 years to finally go travelling. Now I wonder why I waited so long.

Lessons & tips: You can get really great airfare deals online and hotel aren't much more expensive than anywhere else. Take about $2000 each person, but you won't spend it all if you are mildly frugal. We did loads of tourist stuff and that was the most expensive part. (even most of that was cheap, individually)
Some cheap, amazing things to do:
Hanauma bay snorkeling (if you like water, just buy a cheap snokel set for 20 and take the bus out there in the morning. Don't buy a tourist deal)

The Shorebird restaurant. Great food, music at night and friendly staff.

Luau, any of them are good. We went to Germaine's and it was a blast! (A shout out to cousin kai and bus 8!)

Go parasailing. Not cheap, but good fun.

Resources: If you are going to travel, anywhere in the US, go to Entertainment.com and buy the entertainment book for that area. It costs $15 and saved us hundreds of dollars on activities and meals!

Jun 19, 07:51AM PDT | 2 comments | 3 cheers