BEAT OF HAWAII AND BEYOND

Meet Jeff and Rob, the Beat of Hawaii authors:

Rob and Jeff are writers, travelers and technologists who know Hawaii, live here full-time and log between 50-100K miles per year

We normally publish daily on weekdays, sometimes more if we have a lot to say.

Beat of Hawaii is a highly acclaimed not-for-profit site designed to help promote our Hawaiian Islands to visitors. We are top-ranking in Google, following only Expedia when looking for a “Hawaii deal.”

________________________________________________

More About Rob

My ancestors came to Kauai in the 1850’s. I, however, returned to Hawaii via Washington, Oregon and Pennsylvania. For the past six years, Hawaii has been my full-time home. It’s a natural fit for me because I love the ocean and the culture of the islands; a perfect place for a Pisces guy!

World travel has been in my blood since I was a child, and I still remember my first trip to Europe as though it were yesterday. My passion for travel continues to grow, and I have lists of upcoming trips we are planning.

I’ve worked in marketing, strategic planning and consulting my entire career. I’ve also been a college admission director, have a Graduate degree in Education and a Bachelor’s in English.

I fell into travel writing quite by accident on a trip to Australia a couple of years ago. It provided a way to stay in touch with, and send photos to, friends and family on a more real-time basis.

Beat of Hawaii, is a great melding place for my writing, passion for travel, and love of Hawaii.

More About Jeff

I’ve been traveling the world for most of my life.

An entrepreneur and renaissance-type by nature, I’ve worked in technology consulting for 30 years. I headed an international business practice for many years, with consulting clients in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. I managed travel (and expenses) for a large group of globe-trotters, and trained corporate travel agents to meet our needs.  That together with a lot of curiousity is pretty much how I learned the ins and outs of travel.

I moved to Hawaii full-time over a decade ago, though I’d lived here part-time since the 70’s. I still love to travel and to offer travel help and recommendations to visitors and locals alike. I follow travel closely and enjoy critical analysis of the industry. It’s my consulting nature. When I’m not writing, vegetarian cooking, coffee roasting, long distance ocean swimming, yoga and edible gardening are among my many varied interests. I’m committed to getting back to golf. My 97 year old Auntie lives nearby us. She’s still very active, a bridge player, and may start her own blog. She follows Beat of Hawaii closely and asks every day about what we’re writing on, and our readers.

More About Muley

I’m the mascot here at Beat of Hawaii, am 17 years old, born and raised in Hawaii. “Lucky live Hawaii” as we say here. I’ve trained both of these guys on everything equine. They know what I like to eat and when, and how I like to be groomed.  I’m one-half ton of beautiful blond girl, as you can plainly see. Life here isn’t bad, but we all have our jobs. Mine is to keep one acre of grass munched (in addition to my many treats), and keep an eye on everything. We’ve got wild pigs, and they can be dangerous.

Mules are much smarter than you think. For example, I recently located some excellent recipes for equine cookies (apple and oat bars, and carrot cookies).  I got Jeff to bake them for me, so now I’m off of store-bought treats.  Yipee.

Being quite talkative and opinionated, I’ll write more about myself later.  I wanted to poke my two cents in and say hi though, before things got too wild.

You’ll find me on Twitter, although I’m still undecided about Facebook.