Hawaii Day 8 - Going Home!

This really intrigued me from the day I arrived on the Big Island. I loved these rock walls! They were so even and straight. I asked one of our guides about them and they told me that the Samoans are excellent rock workers and their specialty is building these walls. They do not use mortar but find rocks that fit well and then do a little bit of shaping. These walls were everywhere and were absolutely amazingingly beautiful.

This one is in the Walmart parking lot.

This is an absolutely beautiful statue in the airport. It seemed years ago we stepped off the plane. Now it was time to go home. We waited in the open aired airport reminiscing about our trip and vowing to come back, if not to the big island at least to Oahu. I really do miss it here. There really is a cultural difference between the islands and the mainland. It has been so long since I had been here I had forgotten it.

Here is our plane, waiting for us to get on.

Here we go... not. If we were on that plane we wouldn't have been able to take a picture of it. Get real.

On our way home. It was a really good satisfying trip. But I know Judi and Laura will never travel with us again!

This is the view from the plane as we left Hawaii. (heavy sigh...)

This is the edge of Molokai as we came down to land in Honolulu. There were so many other stories to tell. Most I will probably forget. Getting into a fight with the big Molk in the Honolulu airport, inadvertently giving our Ride the Rim guides a $70 tip, our first night eating on the beach in Kona, having breakfast with the geckos. But somethings we will never forget, Laura yelling at the poor guide up on the top of Mauna Kea, getting up the steps at the waterfall, the view of the Kings Valley.

This is certainly a trip I will always remember and although it was occasionally tough I am grateful to have shared every bump and bruise with Judi, Laura and Extremo.

Thanks for the memories.