Weird Rain in the Summer Sun! (Pohoiki, Pahoa, Big Island Hawaii video)


Today I share with you one of the coolest atmospheric phenomena I experienced during my time on the Big Island.

At the time, I called it a “sunstorm” but I’ve since realized that the sun already has little storms of its own. So let’s just call it crazy-spontaneous magical rain, shall we?

Lost? You’ll see what I mean in the video, shot during a particularly lovely, yet bizarre, summer day on Hawaiʻi.

Transcription

Me: This is weird. It’s full-on raining… I don’t know. I was half-expecting a rainbow or something. Not this time, I guess. You just get one cloud, one cloud decides to drop.

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Lovely Hula Dancers @ Kailua-Kona Airport, Big Island & Travel Inspiration


Today, I’m going to try something a little different. Maybe a little crazy.

I like to think of myself as a compartmentalized person, but perhaps different areas of my life bleed together more than I care to admit sometimes.

You may be familiar with my travel site. I’ve been growing it since 2007. Well today I’m excited to announce that it is, officially, going away. Much of the content on it is still relevant and useful, but I just don’t have the passion for it that I once had. Frankly, I don’t even like the name and maintaining it has become more trouble than its worth.

So, to switch things up, I’m going to do something potentially reckless. I’m going to start posting my travel videos to MYTHLI. Even crazier, I’m going to gradually move all of my travel articles over to this site, back-dated and improved, to work over here. While I’ll be killing off byteful.com, the old links will still redirect, so nothing will be lost in this transition. In fact, it’s a beautiful consolidation.

This is not as strange as it sounds. Travel has always inspired my fiction, and considering my 2nd Book heavily features a tropical environment, it is my hope that the video that I share with you today is imminently relevant (or at the very least, enjoyable). Consider that if it weren’t for my time on Hawaii, The Island on the Edge of Forever would have never been written. (Incidentally, today is the 1 year anniversary of my departure from the Big Island, and then I felt this come through yesterday, completely unpremeditated. Coincidence?)

So enjoy today’s video of Hawaii from the air and two LOVELY hula dancers I had the pleasure of watching perform in the Kona Airport.

It’s 81 seconds of island chillaxification. Enjoy:


Stunning San Francisco lights @ Twin Peaks Vista video


And we’re back.

I’ve been formulating some plans and planning some formulations lately, some of which are about this blog.

I’m considering putting this blog on hiatus once I finish editing and uploading all of my Hawaii videos. What do you think? Would you miss this site? Serious question, because I’m finding myself drawn to simplifying my life. No doubt that you are aware that most of my focus is going toward MYTH.LI these days and the upcoming books in the Mythic Sci-Fi series.

Anywho, if you have any thoughts about that, or today’s video, please use the Facebook comments below, or you can contact me directly.

Today’s video is a little break from Hawaii. This one is all about Twin Peaks, an awesome hill right in the middle of San Francisco!

The view from Twin Peaks is one of the best views of San Francisco that you can get (at least, without renting your own helicopter). And this video was shot at night, highlighting the lovely city lights along Mission.

Enjoy 🙂

Transcription

Me: Top of Twin Peaks, where you can see the Golden Gate in the distance. And you can see the road we came up on and Market Street. Look real close you can see the Trans-America Pyramid, and you can see the bay. Hard to capture with this, but it’ll give you a little taste. You can just drive right up here!

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The Zig-Zaggy Bridge over Koi Pond @ Honolulu HNL Airport, Oahu video


Once upon a time, I came across a Japanese koi pond in the middle of an airport.

Strung across the large koi pond was a bridge that zigged and zagged across in a most interesting way.

And so, I zig-zagged with it! Of course, all of this was nestled conveniently inside the Honolulu Airport, and so I shot a short 33 second video to let you enjoy it too:

Transcription

Me: Follow the zig-zaggy path, my son! Past the koi pond! Zig! Zaaag! And that’s how you zig-zag.

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