Sand sculptures and ocean-side gingerbread houses appear at Waikiki resorts around this time of year. You can see them all at Sheraton Waikiki, Royal Hawaiian Resort and Moana Surfrider.
Groups can still go to the island nation after the new regulations were announced in November. So can individuals, but it's a bit more complicated now.
The company offers airline passengers some relief from harrowing holiday travel. It’s the first time Megabus has made such an offer to stranded airline passengers.
By all means, gaze at the big tree, but also study the 56 smaller ones surrounding it, each representing a state, territory, or the capital city itself.