Dona Thornwall ([email protected]), living in the Bay Area runs as owner and CEO Escape Artist Tours Inc., is a good friend of mine (she helped me to escape the pest at the Superbowl in San Diego) and runs a Bay Area oriented tour/package-organization (http://www.sf-escapes.com).

I know she (and her websites) have links to Hawaii (but I haven't tried those tours for myself). But I guarantee that her tips and offers are good, real and very personal.

(Dona made me and my brother also 49er-season-ticket-holders: tickets that we mostly give or share to/with our Napa-valley-wine-producer-friends or make crazy short-weekend-travels there - as me last weekend: but the come-back from 0:21 to 34:31 was great to watch and together with the CatMan-committee-meeting worth the trip).