We’ve added location details and a map to the Tiki Travels: Seattle-Tacoma page.
Expanded Website Feature: Tiki Travels: Seattle-Tacoma
Profile on Tiki with Ray Blog
Head on over to the Tiki with Ray Blog to learn more about our backstory and journey, thanks to the “Tiki Blogging” profile and interview.
Tiki Blogging #10 – The Search for The Ultimate Mai Tai (Kevin Crossman)
Ray has been a really important part of my reintroduction into the tiki scene over the past few years, starting with his blog and later his YouTube channel. Ray seems to know everyone, and they’re often featured on his blog.
In my day job I have had the opportunity to travel to the Seattle area a few times over the past few years and I’ve met up with Ray and some of the other Seattle Ohana. We have had some great adventures in the Seattle/Tacoma area!
It’s always fun when Ray rolls into town for visit. The photo below is from last year’s meetup at Forbidden Island in Alameda. There’s nobody in this world who makes me laugh as much as Ray does. It was also my pleasure to help Ray out by monitoring the camera for two Tiki with Ray Live episodes in late 2019.
Ray gave me the opportunity to do several guest blog posts on his blog, covering tiki bars in the Bay Area. And I guested on his YouTube show a couple times. So, it’s truly an honor to be featured on Ray’s blog, one of the seminal resources in the Third Wave of Tiki.
New Site Feature: Top 5 Mai Tais
We’ve added a new page with our current list of best Mai Tais. These are Mai Tais made without any rum or ingredient substitutions (which could yield a better Mai Tai of course). If you just walk in and order the house Mai Tai, these are the best.
- Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29
- Rumba
- House without a Key, Halekulani Hotel
- Lono
- Hale Pele
The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai: Top 5 Mai Tais
New Site Feature: Tiki Travels – San Francisco Bay Area
We’ve added a new page to the Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai website: Tiki Travels – San Francisco Bay Area.
Home to the largest concentration of tiki bars anywhere in the world, our Tiki Travels page covers all 20 tiki bars in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have location info, touring tips, and photos. We also rate these destinations on a number of categories, so you can choose which ones to prioritize on your visits to the area.
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Tiki Travels – San Francisco Bay Area
New Site Feature: Tiki Travels – Honolulu
We’ve added a new page to the Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai website: Tiki Travels – Honolulu.
Most of our Tiki Travels pages will be exclusively focusing on Tiki Bars. However, since Hawaii is also a great Mai Tai destination, many of the places we visited weren’t tiki at all. Nonetheless we had some great Mai Tais, including our favorite on Waikiki at the Halekulani Hotel.
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Tiki Travels – Honolulu
New Site Feature: Palm Springs Tiki Bars
We’ve added a new page to the Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai website: Tiki Travels – Palm Springs.
If you’re looking for a tiki destination, Palm Springs has a little bit of everything, and the four tiki bars are all in close proximity. Each place has their own charms and good reasons to visit, and so your preference might depend on your taste, which aspects of the venue are most important, the location, or even some small details.
Each bar is located within a four mile stretch of Palm Canyon Drive.
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Tiki Travels – Palm Springs
Article in Exotica Moderne Magazine #6
Time to add paid, published author to my resume.
Actually, I did some freelance RPG writing years and years ago, but it’s nice to start doing some more again. This is my article in the latest issue of Exotica Moderne, a story about tiki bars in Honolulu.
Ken from House of Tabu did an amazing job with the layout and design. Look at the map! So awesome.
And glad to give shout outs to Arnold’s Beach Bar, The Myna Bird, Skull & Crown Trading Company, La Mariana, and the recent departed Wiki Waki Woo Tropical Bar (hope that one comes back). Great fun in Honolulu.
If you haven’t ordered your copy get over to House of Tabu website to secure your copy.
