This week’s site updates are a collection of tweaks and other small changes to the Our Trips section of our site. Here are the quick details.
Trip Planning Added
Starting with our Maui trip in April ’08, we began posting our trip plans and ideas leading up to leaving for the islands. As you might have noticed, we’re doing the same thing for this next trip in February. The Trip Planning section groups those posts together and makes it a little bit easier to navigate the various entries from our blog.
Travel Traditions
The new Travel Traditions series on our blog now has a place on our website, too. Under the Our Trips section you’ll now find the Travel Traditions page, which features an abstract of the most recent edition in the series, as well as links to all the previous entries.
Future Plans
While future trip details were previously listed with our past trips on the Trip Details page, we split out those notes onto their own Future Plans page. If you haven’t seen this before, they are basically the same future trip ideas that we had previously, covering what we hope to do in future visits and extended stays on Maui.
Site Updates
While not part of the Our Trips section, I also added a new page to track all the Site Updates that we’ve been making over the last year. As you can see from the page, this is the 3rd site update for December, which followed two previous updates in November. We still have quite a few things to add before our next trip, so this page is a great way to catch up on anything you might have missed.
As always, feel free to chime in with any feedback or ideas that you have on these or other aspects of the site.
Mahalo.
I love your site. My family and I frequent the islands twice a year (Maui in spring, Big Island summer or fall). Wouldn’t you be better served buying a distressed time share, ocean front or an ocean close condo. We do this and can go 25 days a year. There are some steals right now.
Hope I wasn’t being preachy and keep up the great posts. We are in Maui 12-21 Feb and we will have friends at the Marriott right by you at the same time.
Finally a new thing for you to consider. Check out the astonomy club for Haleakala. Monthy star gazing. It is absolutely worth your time and effort.
Thanks for your feedback, and I’m glad you like the site.
My aunt and uncle actually bought a timeshare last year, and even offered to let us use it for this trip. Unfortunately, the availability didn’t work out for us. Honestly, this could very well be our last trip to the Sheraton for awhile. Looking ahead to August of 2010, we’re hoping live the island life for an entire month, which won’t be at a resort, that’s for sure.
After that, we’re planning to explore our options. Depending on how that month goes, we might opt for an entire year next. Working towards that goal so soon, buying a timeshare or condo ourselves for these little trips didn’t seem worth it right now.
Thanks for the tip on the astronomy club, I’ll have to look them up. I have a few contacts on Flickr that have some amazing astronomy photos taken from up there, and I’d love to try it out one day. My wife’s relatives did the tour from Star Gazers Maui a few years ago and absolutely loved it. Seeing the stars from that far above all the clouds would be a dream come true.