BOKTRAVELTIPS: MOLOKA’I

‘What is your darkest memory? Most horrible experience?”, I asked the young handsome and ever-polite man driving the car.  There were no cameras, no notebook, just us blurring 70 miles an hour through his horticulture tour and 90 mile drive through southern Georgia. “Those are pecan trees…big down here. Make a lot of money with…

“Hungry …Mister O’Keefe? ”, purred the American Airlines flight attendant in Business Class enroute to Paris sometime in the 1990’s as I was gobbling my way to obesity by 30. It caused fits and giggles for me and my traveling bestie at the time, Richard Samson….who imitated that woman for days….if not months. But looking…

It was like a scene from a movie and I remember that moment like it was happening right now. The man in front of me was wailing …crying so hard like I had never before witnessed..in my whole life. Unusual because he laughed a lot and made a lot of other people smile and laugh….sometimes…

BY BRIAN O’KEEFE “Hey, it’s me. Is the bigger plane available?”, said the booming voice with that distinct yet subtle half New England…half New Orleans drawl. “I’ve got a few extra people coming back with me. Let’s send in the big plane!”, he said with his usual charm. The top two crown family jewels (two…

BY BRIAN O’KEEFE I was alone backstage with a star ….again. “I wasn’t sure I would like it, but I love it,” whispered a real live movie star sitting on her fictional law practice’s fake staircase. It was Viola Davis, known as a film actress from various supporting roles, telling me privately about her new…

    Where you can get Drunk on Love or Friendship, Meet a Live American Princess…and Bury the Lead.     by Brian O’Keefe   “He’s here”….. said the host …into a walkie talkie…when I announced my arrival at one of the fancier hotel restaurants in Honolulu, which set off a Secret Service style “perp…