We all pulled the chairs up close gathering around our stereo cabinet. My dad was ready; he had his number 2 pencil and yellow legal notepad. He was meticulously filling each line with a number...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/experiencing-the-indy-500-live/
They say one is the loneliest number, but not when you are the only hotel on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai. In fact, if I were to put my business education to work, one is a pretty great number ...
There may only be one hotel on Molokai, however that’s not how it always was. A photographic walk through abandoned Molokai hotels. The post Abandoned Molokai Hotels appeared first on Ottswo...
Coconut water, coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut vinegar – we are coo coo for coconuts. It seems like every time I come back to the US, there is another coconut fad that has hit the shelves. I...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/custom-postcards-molokai-hawaii/
“Actually, the best thing you can write about Molokai is to tell people not to come here,” she said. I was alarmed – I was on Molokai, one of the six islands (that are visitable) that make ...
From the beginning of the Niece Project it was Allie who always intimidated me. She is my brother’s middle daughter and is like none of my other nieces. I honestly was never sure if she would e...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/niece-project-4-0-the-decision/
As I watched all of the little dots climb the Harbor Bridge in Sydney in the distance, I decided that I didn’t want to do what all the other tourists were doing. Instead of climbing the bridge,...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/things-to-do-in-sydney-harbor/
When you live on a tropical paradise you must have adopted healthy, fresh, light eating habits – right? That’s the beautiful paradise picture we paint in our head. However Hawaii is an intere...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/things-to-do-on-oahu-local-food/
We’ve all seen it during the winter Olympics – the strange and foreign sport of curling. Every 4 years I have the same reaction, “What?! This is an Olympic sport? What next, will they allow...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/things-to-do-in-alberta-curling/
Why does it always look so easy when you watch it on the Food Network? Hell, those chefs can whip up a whole dinner in 30 minutes while talking to a camera and not one swear word comes out of the...