The house is less than one mile (1.6km) south of the Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Obama exercised at the Semper Fit Center at the base and attended dinners there during his visits.[1]
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August 8–14, 2008 – Obama visited Kailua during the 2008 United States presidential election campaign. He stayed at a different house belonging to Jill Tate Higgins, the general partner of Lakeside Enterprises, a Burbank, California, private family investment company. During this visit, he would visit his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, for the final time before her death. Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu from age 10.[2][3]
December 20–31, 2008 – Obama, in his first visit to Plantation Estate, took a two-week vacation after winning the election. He would scatter his grandmother's ashes at Lanai Lookout at the same location where he had scattered the ashes of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in 1995. His grandmother had passed two days before Obama's election. Obama would also visit the beach, leading to shirtless pictures becoming widely circulated.[4][5][6][7]
December 23, 2011 – Obama arrived six days after his family and stayed until January 1, 2012.[18] Reportedly, this year's vacation home was a few doors down from the home used in the previous years.[19]
December 21, 2012 – Obama arrived at the same house he stayed in 2011.[20]
