Our Adventures of Kauai & Maui

Those of you who travel know that planning may be the most important part of preparation for visiting any unknown location. Luckily I have have Leza. She is an amazing planner and honestly runs circles around me when finding places to go and things to see.

After a year of Covid limitations and hurdles, Leza and I were finally able to take our Honeymoon to the beautiful islands of Hawaii!  Specifically the islands of Kauai and Maui.  Throughout this travel blog, we want to share our experiences, photos and recommendations of these gorgeous locations.

For anyone who is planning a trip to Hawaii and don’t know where to begin, this may be a good place to start for reference.  We’re not the type of couple to lounge around a resort, so we definitely tried to cover as much ground as we could in the amount of time we had.  We also had a little gem up our sleeves though...  Leza told me about this app called Gypsy Guide that I needed to check It out, and I was like, why?! You’re the planner! We don’t need an app!

Fast forward several months to our departure and Leza mentioned it again and I said sure, let’s give it a go and try it out.

Needless to say, Leza was right again and this app was amazing!  In a nut shell, Gypsy Guide gives you self guided audio tours and routes based on the tours that your purchase. Instead of using your GPS, it downloads the maps directly to your smartphone.

So even if you have no service, it will know where you’re located and will narrate along your specific location. We didn’t use our GPS once for driving directions. The Gypsy Guide App is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Gypsy Guide

Maps for Kauai Tours & Maps for Maui Tours

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Download Gypsy Guide App

Between Leza’s previous planning and our new Gypsy Guide, we were in excellent shape! I’ll most likely mention more about Gypsy Guide as you read along about where we went and what we did, but if you’re traveling to Kauai, or Maui, check out these guides!

As you can see from the two photos below, this is a visual of where we took photos and visited on Kauai. So if you’re interested in traveling along with us, keep reading for all of the amazing locations we encountered!

We scheduled eleven days total; five days on Kauai, four days in Maui, and two days of travel.

It wasn’t hard leaving the 25º F weather of Minnesota, but we took our early flight out of Minneapolis and headed to rainy Seattle which then led us to our final destination of Kauai.

After about twelve hours of travel (including layover), we landed around 8pm in Kauai. First thing was to get our rental car, which was a mustang convertible. After driving this for five days, I will never ever own one! After getting our fancy convertible, we were ready to find our temporary home, shower and get some sleep in a real bed.

The drive was pitch black and you could hear the crashing of the waves as we finally found what we would call home for the next few nights. We quickly brought in luggage and prepared for bed, as the next day we wanted to be well rested to see the paradise we arrived at.