When Hurricane Katrina drove me and my husband out of New Orleans, we took it as a sign to move back to Hawaii. We've been traveling together for the better part of 15 years - Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, the Phillipines and Southeast Asia. My background is in journalism and I've written many travel articles, but Adventure Guide: Hawaii the Big Island is my first book.
Bryan and I spent seven months researching it for Hunter Publishing, who told us to include "twice the detail of competing guides." To that end, we covered "adventures" ranging more...