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The Road to Hana - Dave and Patty - Thursday, March 31, 2022

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 When you win a trip with Hunter Douglas, you often have a choice of excursions to choose from at your expense.  Dave and I looked through them all.  What seemed the most appealing to me and right up my alley was The Road to Hana.  The road has 617 turns and 54 one lane bridges. We decided to go with a tour company.  Nick and Dorothy drove it on their own!  We learned a lot of history and we took a lot of photos.  We stopped at a Lava Tube and went inside the Lava Tube with our flashlights.  We learned that one side of the island (Hana) gets up to 400 inches of rain a year and the other side (the side where we were staying) gets about 4 to 10 inches of rain a year. We learned that Kahelaka Island is off limits because for years it was used for target practice and now there are unexploded bombs throughout the island.  Boats can't even get within a certain distance of the island.  We learned that Monkey Pod trees were built for the sugar p...
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Pearl Harbor (for some) / Beach day (for others - me) - Wednesday, March 30, 2022

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When the Dr. says to make sure to take time to rest! I hung out with Joe and McKenzie at their pool. The rest of the group headed to the airport to go to Pearl Harbor Dave entering a submarine Submarine and Ben Pearl Harbor - Dave, Ben, Joe Ben More of us on our 'beach day" Palm Tree Enjoying Maui Sunset  
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Haleakala Volcano, Maui - Tuesday 3/29/2022

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Dave and I have a goal to visit as many National Parks as we can.  So when we found out we were going to Maui, naturally we needed to visit Haleakala National Park.  Joe had really wanted to "see" a volcano and this would get us as close to one as possible.  My niece, Dorothy, had just returned from Maui and she had told me about the app GyPSy.  I had downloaded it and I downloaded the drive to Haleakala volcano.  It was a very cool app and we loved listening to the narration and the story about the island Maui on our way up the mountain. This curvy road (think Yosemite) and narrow road (think Million Dollar Highway) had these unique parts to it where it narrows to one way only.  Thank God the GyPSy app narration would alert us that this was coming up.  You  basically have to stop and let one car come from the other direction and then you go.  Yikes.  There is also a very popular bike ride on this road.  Or should I say bike fly or ...
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