The first half of 2025 has been one of the busiest travel periods I can remember. According to TripIt, I logged 59,747 miles with a carbon footprint of 34 tCO₂—that can’t be good. (BTW, if you don’t use TripIt, I highly recommend it for organizing and tracking your travel; you simply email all your confirmations to it and it creates a single itinerary for you.)
After yet another round of lackluster inflight entertainment, I am giving up on video entertainment this issue and turning my attention to something more satisfying: FOOD.
Over the years, when friends and colleagues have visited Oʻahu, they’ve always asked for recommendations. So I created an email with the subject line “Dan’s List,” featuring my go-to things to do and eat (mostly eat). As the requests piled up, I eventually turned it into a hidden page on my website so I could just share the URL.
If you’re interested, you can check it out here. Just don’t share it with anyone who thinks Olive Garden should be on the list (if you are reading this, you know who you are ;-). And if you’ve got favorite restaurants on Oʻahu—or the neighbor islands—I’d love to hear about them. I’m always on the hunt for great grindz.
