The questions below are drawn from the themes of this travelogue page and the wider Hawaii section of Travels With Children. They are general orientation points for families planning a Big Island visit; the trip itself is documented in the photo essays linked throughout this site.
The Big Island is the island of Hawaii, the largest island in the Hawaiian chain and the one this 2013 chapter of the travelogue covers. It sits alongside the site's other Hawaii page, Kauai (2014), in the Hawaii section of the TRAVELS menu.
This site is an informational travelogue about traveling with children, and the Big Island is presented as one of the family destinations in the Hawaii section. The approach throughout the site — slowing down, framing travel as adventure, and giving children room to burn energy — is set out on the LET 'EM PLAY page.
The page is part of a photo-and-essay travelogue, so the specifics of what the family saw and did are told through the images and narrative rather than a checklist. For the broader context of the Hawaii trip, see the HAWAII section page and the companion KAUAI (2014) page.
The page title dates the Big Island chapter to 2013. It sits within a series of trips documented on the site that also includes Florida/Bahamas (2011), the Philippines, India, the West Coast U.S.A., and later road trips.
Start with the INTRODUCTION, browse the TRAVELS menu for each destination, and read the essays under 500 WORDS — including LET 'EM PLAY, MONEY, and ACCESIBILITY — for the site's general philosophy on family travel.