Craig and Suzanne Kuehn
Our Family and Travels
Hawaii 2021
We originally planned to spend to weeks on Hawaii Island in October 2020. The Marriott resort along with most everything else closed. Our reservation and plane tickets were banked. When out first Pfizer shot was scheduled in January and Hawaii was opened with restrictions, we hoped to unbank our reservations to go in April. Well, April was already booked but late March was available, so we took it. We were to arrive in Kona on a Thursday. So we got our COVID test on the previous Monday. That way we would have results within the 72 hour window that Hawaii requires. However, whenever we checked our test results the lab said they did not received the samples from Walgreen's. As we boarded the plane in Sacramento on Thursday, still no samples in the lab. We checked after we arrived in Honolulu and they finally received the samples. When we arrived in Kona the test results were not done. We were required to sign quarantine orders and find our way to the Waikoloa Beach resort, as we were not allowed to rent a car. While waiting for a Lyft driver one half-hour after signing the quarantine order, our negative results came in. After several go arounds at the resort, our negative test results were noted and we had full access to the resort (a silver lining). We discovered getting a car was very difficult, but we already cancelled our car rental. We made a new rental when when our quarantine was over. All in all, there are probably few better places to quarantine then at Waikola Beach.
Sunset pics ( l to r): Two from our Lanai, the right most from the first floor of the resort.
The Marriott Waikoloa has two luaus per week. We could see and hear them from our Lanai where we took these pictures.
We toured and drank coffee at Greenwell Farms at their Kona coffee plantation (l to r): they grow other things, like bananas; where the beans (seeds) are separated; the coffee was still green when we were there.
Hawaii Volcanoes N.P. (l to r): Kilauea caldera; a lower lava field; where previous flows enter the Pacific. It was rainy, hence the rainbows. Parts of the park were closed to to COVID or lava or gas dangers.