Category Archives: Travel

Hello again from the Big Blue! I am reluctantly giving this week’s Scootie award to the chicken-leg-chopping owner of the Para-Trooper Motel. How could I not? After all, it’s not every day you see someone with two hands of bananas, … Continue reading →

Hello, at last, from the Big Blue! This week’s Scootie award was going to the two young men proudly driving down the road, each with a rooster tucked under one arm, until I learned the Cock-a-doodlers were going to be … Continue reading →

Throw out your diet books, I have solved your weight loss problems! My groundbreaking solution? Eat less. Stop laughing. You Nutters have been reading my Cook Islands culinary complaints for months now so what I’m about to confess may come … Continue reading →

Hello again from the Big Blue! If you imagine life on a small, sleepy island is all about drinking coconut water and wiggling ones toes in the sand, think again. Yesterday was the Big Meeting about the controversial Sunday flights. … Continue reading →

Hello again from the Big Blue!   (Today’s Coconut Chronicle is a musical. This is what happens when you buy an iPod and listen to the Chicago soundtrack while you clean huts, for six months.)   He had it comin’, … Continue reading →

Hello again from the Big Blue!   Big news this week, the Heineken store brought in a shipment of celery! If you didn’t see the report on CNN, I’m here to tell you it was quite an event. Speaking of … Continue reading →

Hello again from the Big Blue,   She came, she saw, she photographed…and photographed…and photographed. My twelve days with Helmi the Wonder Editor flew by far too quickly. Luckily, we have plenty of pictorial evidence of her stay, not to … Continue reading →

A Late Hello from the Big Blue!   I suppose a spanking is in order for my tardiness. That’s OK, I’m a big girl, can take it. I have excuses, as always, but I will spare you the verbiage and … Continue reading →

Hello again from the Big Blue!  Six more sleeps until the Transporter, aka Helmi the Wonder Editor, arrives! She is certainly going to need a vacation after the work out we’ve put her through. Our emails have been something like … Continue reading →