My first ride hitchhiking in the Puna district was with two old hippies, beards to their stomachs, who started smoking pot as soon as I got in the car. “You guys grow up around here?” I asked. One of them …
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“Anything that can create itself by erupting out of the bowels of the Pacific Ocean is worth looking at.” —Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono The rain closed down the backcountry trails my first few nights on the …
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“Oh man,” said my friend Tui when I mentioned Kealakekua Bay. “That’s where Captain Cook got got.” Which is a polite way of saying that James Cook got stabbed to death with a spear, then had the flesh cooked off …
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It’s not as easy as driving. But if you don’t want to spend your vacation dough on a car, hitchhiking is still widely practiced on the Big Island. Let me preface this by saying that there is a public transportation …
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Gouged into the walls of Hawaii’s Hamakua Coast is the Waipi’o Valley, a legendary gorge that has been the home to countless rulers of the island. Getting down to this sacred site is hard. Getting out is even harder. “Hey …