The long awaited Islands have finally taken me in. I've been here on the island of Lana'i for about a week. It has been non-stop action since the moment I arrived. The weekdays are no different than the weekends, it's all become one big blur of crazy wildness with a dash of beauty sprinkled on top. I arrived on Maui last week and Jared's Hawaiian friend brought me to the ferry stopping along the way to see some breath taking sights along the road: sacred valleys with magnificent peeks and waterfalls (where I started stacking rocks and he said that probably wasn't such a good idea considering that if one of those rocks was a sacrificial rock the ancient Hawaiians used to bash heads in than it might be a world of trouble and bad luck for all of eternity; so I gently placed them back where I got 'em), a town of beautiful haole wahines, and the most expensive Bud Light I have ever seen - like $7.00 for a six pack!!! I gave my new friend the rest of the beer and gave him a big "mahalo" for taking me all the way. I got on the ferry with the island of Lana'i in sight, the sun setting over its highest peek. Ended up talkin with this wonderful Hawaiian family on the surreal boat ride over, and they all knew Jared and the rest of the Mainards on Lana'i. Ryan and Jared picked me up in an old WWII Jeep bombing through old pineapple fields overgrown in tall grass.
Since then we have been snorkeling with every fish in the rainbow, camping down secluded 19mile dirt roads (where we got stuck on the beach), surfed and spear fished. We took a different road out of there that was the most insane off-roading I have ever done in my whole life, sheer vertical rocks with over hangings, Jareds truck was sticking upside down on these impossible rock faces where boulders are the road and a wonderous view of Maui. (Is "wonderous" a word?) This island has about 6 drastically different climates ranging from Southern California, Humboldt County, and the planet Mars. Christmas day was filled with funny little presents, good food and a 30ft cliff that we all jumped off into the sapphire blue ocean which happened to bruise my poor little coccyx (tailbone) the second time I jumped; and I have no beautiful girls to rub it for me, and now I have to stay put on the beach with a stiff drink and watch the sun move......oh woe is me.
