Pat and I lived in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1973 to 1976. During that time we made a few short trips to other islands, just a couple of days in Kauai, the "Garden Island". A few months ago we realized that we had a time-share condo week that needed to be used soon or we would lose it, and we ended up taking a week in Kauai.
So today we are finishing up preparations,(including starting this blog), tomorrow we drive to northern Virginia, the next day we fly to Honolulu (including a change of planes in Seattle, which is forecast for 12 to 18 inches of snow by Thursday morning), and Sunday we fly to Lihue, Kauai.
Lihue is in the southeast corner of the island, about in the middle of the road that goes most of the way around the island, so we are within 30 miles of everything we can drive to. To the north is green and very wet, and to the south and west is brown and very dry. The mountain at the center of the island gets about 450 inches of rain per year so there are navigable rivers and a grand canyon with waterfalls that stream off the top edge and are blown into mist by the trade winds before they reach the bottom.
There are also ancient stone structures that predate the arrival of the Polynesians, and require technologies beyond anything that existed there when the Europeans arrived.
Wow!! I would say that I can hardly wait, except that I can, because I'm getting better at just taking life as it comes rather than fighting it, but that's a whole different subject.
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