The Beginning

We began our 2 year trip around the world on November 25th, 2008. This was our 5 year anniversary so we decided to begin the
"Swan's Endless Summer Journey" in Hanalei Bay, Kauai where we were married. This is also our daughters name so it seemed like the best place to start.

Hanalei, is a small "granola" hawaiian town. They have a small city center where you can go to the BIG SAVE market and spend 2x's the price you would pay anywhere in the world I think. I think a loaf of bread was about $6 bucks, but hey your on the North Shore of Kauai and there is nothing else up there, so I gladly paid $6 bucks for bread!! My favorite part about Hanalei is how close you are to the beach and town, it is less than a 5 minute walk from the beach to town, which made going to Hanalei Yoga for my Bikram class very convenient.
The beaches are amazing and so is the surf. The first 3 weeks we were there the surf was pumping and Swano was in heaven. Hanalei and I watched from afar the huge waves at the point.

I love Kauai and didn't want to leave....until I got to Oahu.