Travels WithJohn and Janice
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Hawaii

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Clay and Talia with both sets of parents on their wedding dayHawaii
2 min read2011

Dateline April 11, 2011, Clay's Wedding and the Big Island

The whole reason for the Hawaii trip: our nephew Clay Trauernicht's wedding to Talia, on the North Shore of Oahu. Then a week on the Big Island with the Wilson clan, Akaka Falls, kayaking out to the Captain Cook Monument in Kealakekua Bay, and snorkeling among more colorful fish than we knew the ocean held. And the news at the end that turned the page on the rest of the year: we had sold the house in Florida.

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The USS Arizona Memorial above the sunken battleship in Pearl HarborHawaii
3 min read2011

Dateline April 1, 2011, Pearl Harbor, Oahu

A visit to Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial. Over six hundred feet of battleship resting on the floor of the harbor with the sailors of December 7, 1941. The wall of names, the small amounts of oil still escaping from the hull, and the USS Missouri turned inward to watch over them. Eleanor Roosevelt's wartime prayer at the circle of remembrance.

#hawaii#oahu#pearl-harbor
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