Those who have traveled with me before will look at this photo and probably either laugh or shake their heads. These are my planning books for our family holiday in Hawaii. We are leaving tonight. Some may imagine us spending 3 weeks lounging around on the beach. You don't need planning books for that! Exactly twenty years ago in 1997 I graduated from University in Hawaii, after having lived on Oahu for 4 years. While I was there, my younger brother Levi graduated from high school in Tonga and came to join me at age 16. He immediately became a stand-in younger brother to all of my room-mates, and we spent a lot of time together. We had one idyllic summer together, which we used to explore the island from top to bottom. Even now, 20 years on, I look back on that summer as one of the best times of my life. Ten years ago (from January this year), we received a call summoning us to the United States with the intention that we would be there when Levi died of a brain tumou
The life and times of the Woolleys