Road to Hana, el dos. (That means 2.)
ONE more waterfall for you, friends. And we had to hike to get there. And it was teeny tiny in the distance and until we saw it, I was fairly convinced that it didn’t exist and we were walking up the slow climb to our hawaiian death. And at first, I was convinced that Fodors wanted me to climb down that cliff into the lake that’s below. That would have be the worst, but I had been having such a good time that day that I probably would have done it if the book clearly said that I should. Because the book knows. And you have to trust in Fodors. Or something.
And then we got there, and after nearly getting stuck in a knee-deep puddle of life-sucking mud, I decided to jump in. Because at the very least, I had to wash my leg off. And I gotta say… this was the fucking coldest thing I’ve ever felt in my freakin life. COLDEST thing. In my entire. life. It was so cold, I’m totally confused how I got jon to come in and join me. Because he’s usually smarter than I am. We couldn’t stop laughing, it was so cold.
Onward, eh? We had packed a picnic for lunch and decided to find a spot to have a quick bite to eat. Luckily, there’s no shortage of beautiful on the road to hana.
The day before we had stopped at the local farmers market and picked up things to make a pineapple and papaya salsa. That evening, we put it on top of fish that we grilled, but also packed some to much on with tortilla chips during the day. It was so good. Fruit tastes better there, which I’m sure just speaks to the localvore movement: if your food doesn’t need to travel very far, it’s going to taste better.
Enough of these giant black rocks, we’re really hoping for some tiny little black rocks that we can swim on top of. Like these! Because you know, black “sand” – not super soft. More like… crunchy little little black mini rocks.
Look at this freakin cool sand?
Look at how totally happy my mom is!
And she’s swimming in the ocean for the first time ever!
And that was our big black adventure. What other kind of adventures can we have? How about a treacherous red one?
Yeah. But more on that later, because getting there was a little tricky. And you know, I need some time to like… work up to the story. But really, I just want to go to bed. Because it’s 8:30 and it’s kind of past my bed time.