It would be a mistake to rely on words to describe a helicopter tour of Maui. Call it a mythical ride on a magic carpet. Call it a page from a fairytale. It’s like watching a movie, hitching a ride on a butterfly, or drifting along in a dream. It’s a multi-sensory experience that cannot… Continue »
A paraglider is a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft fitted with a harness suspended below a fabric wing. It is used primarily to satisfy a wingless human’s latent desire to fly. Use of this equipment isn’t complicated. To fly, all you have to do is spread the paraglider’s wing (a lightweight canopy) on a hillside and run… Continue »
Charles Lindbergh earned huge celebrity when he became the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. Having resided on Maui for a long time, he returned in 1974 to plan his own funeral; he was suffering from terminal cancer. In the end, the aviator, who died on Aug. 26, 1974 at the age of… Continue »