A travel blog, kept on the map
DtravelTrek started as a blog about beaches, things to do, food and trip planning. Most of it ended up being about Hawaii.
What's here
Between 2023 and 2024 the blog published guides to Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai and the Big Island, plus a long list of mainland trips: Salt Lake City, Miami, Myrtle Beach, Lake Tahoe, Pismo Beach, Amherst, Fort Worth, Rapid City, a Kansas town called Little Sweden and more. There are 48 guides in the archive, sorted into four sections: Beaches, Things To Do, Travel & Dining, Travel Planning.
The original idea, in the blog's own words, was to be a companion for finding travel destinations and planning the trip around them: where to go, what to do there, where to eat afterward.
Who wrote it
Steanlee Thaosen wrote most of the guides (46 of them), including nearly all the Hawaii beach pages. In the author note that ran under each article, Steanlee described the goal as taking readers on virtual journeys and helping them feel like they were really there.
Romit Kemprai wrote 2 guides, among them the long trip plan for Rio de Janeiro and the packing guide for long trips.
How the archive is kept
The guides are online again at their original addresses, with their original text. We removed what no longer worked or never helped a reader: affiliate booking buttons, tracking links, ad blocks, a contact form and comment prompts for comments that no longer exist. Links to other guides on the site and to official sources were kept.
Where something important has changed since a guide was written, we added a short note marked Update, October 2026 and checked it against an official or well-sourced reference. Examples: the 2023 Lahaina fire in the Maui guide, reservation rules at Hanauma Bay, a correction on where Hawaii's green sea turtles nest, and the renaming of a Salt Lake City arena. Prices, hours and menus in the older guides are as they were at the time; check before you go.
We also added Field Notes, a small set of newer pieces (3 so far) that reread several guides at once and turn them into something you can plan with.
Respecting the places
A lot of this site is about Hawaii, and Hawaii's beaches, reefs and trails come with rules and with people who live there. Give resting sea turtles and monk seals plenty of room, use reef-safe sunscreen, stay off private land such as working ranches unless you're on a tour, park legally in residential neighborhoods, and check ocean conditions before you swim. The guides say most of this in their own way; we wanted it said once, plainly.