See Hawaii on a budget

You really do need to visit Hawaii at least once. If you've been there before, I don't have to convince you to go again -- you know how incredible it is. Before I went, I thought many of the postcards I'd seen of Hawaii were fake or "enhanced" photos of rainbows, waterfalls and sunsets. But it turns out they're not fake. Hawaii is so beautiful it almost doesn't look real. The picture above is definitely not fake. My wife took it on our wedding night just minutes after we got married on the beach -- under a double rainbow. Hawaii is spectacular.

Unfortunately it's not the cheapest of vacations, but you can do it on a budget (we did). The plane tickets can be the most expensive part of the trip, but Aloha Airlines has a "Spring Special" going with pretty big discounts on airfare. Some examples:

San Diego to Maui for $159
Orange County to Honolulu for $169
Sacramento to Maui for $159
Oakland to Kona for $149

Now all you have to do is get to the West Coast, and finding cheap fares for those flights is much easier than cheap flights to Hawaii. The hardest part's over. Go have a blast!