you haven’t truly lived (hawaii)

you’ve frolicked naked with dolphins under a rainbow

sat in a hot pond in the jungle, looking up at the palm fronds waving in the wind, while tiny shrimp nibble at your feet

lost your single of underwear, then found it two days later on the side of road 137

slept in more than one geodesic dome

caught a ride in the back of a pick up with three dudes and a dead pig

sat inside a lava tube with a steam vent in the floor, feeling the hot water drip down like rain as it condenses on the hardened blobs and drips of lava all around you, and not wanted to leave so you stay until it’s pitch dark out and all you can see is a tiny slice of stars outside, your window the tiny crack you crawled in through, and in the utter darkness where it looks the same if your eyes are closed or open, some unknown but apparently large insects start crawling on you and biting you in the steamy black, and then it’s time to hike back through the jungle at night and try to hitch hike to somewhere, but you’re not sure where you’re sleeping anyway, but it will all work out.

it’s a good idea to figure out which carebear you are. before you die. islands make you realize things like that.

pretend you’re in hawaii (click! this link and set up the music before you look at the pictures for the full experience)

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bike tour hawaii!!! 2010!!!

well i guess it could be worse….

look how sad i am in this one.

hitch hiking

little friend!

banana flowers

i do love roads… because they go places

took this just off the beach at pohoiki… went to watch people surf, but didn’t get to try it (next time, for sure!). pohoika also has a good hot pond. ahhhhh.

i didn’t realize before i went how everything in hawaii is made of lava. every surface. the only other material is white sand made of crushed coral. most everything is lava just barely covered with plants. or lava not covered yet. or lava still hot and flowing.

pololu valley, where i saw the dead whale.

a crater. it was pretty big. i hiked around in it and took a dump in the woods. there was sulfur gas coming out of cracks. cracks in the rock haha. good times.

best birthday ever!

there are wild pigs everywhere, here is one someone had in a pen. they were super friendly, i spent a long time (on my birthday in fact) hanging out with this pig and his girlfriend pigita. also on my birthday i hung out with some alaskan harley davidson guys and listened to suicidal tendencies and talked about motorcycles. also some nice man gave me a bunch of dried apple bananas. then i went to the steam caves in the magical fairy land. then i ate free indian food. best birthday ever!

sea turtle rocking out in the beautiful turquoise lagoon of kohili