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Becky
The Road to Hana…is Paved with Wild Boars
by Becky - March 19, 2007 - 2:29 PM

I’m in Maui right now–a first-timer to the islands–and wishing I could go back in time & add my name to the list of Punahou alums (but then I’d no longer be in the company of Jewel). lkjdfgI wanted to take a simple trip to the Southeast (about the distance from Detroit to Ann Arbor), neglecting to realize I was embarking upon the beautiful, perilous Road to Hana. I was driven off the road by locals (strapping men toting strapping men in truck beds) only twice, and greeted along the way by a cavalcade of roosters, hens, kittens, and wild boars. My camping plans were precluded by a pile of falling rocks, but that just allowed more time to loiter in the GMO-free organic farm glens of Kipahulu–very Tuck Everlasting! While I watched children frolic in the cane and mint fields, I read up on the latest cases against all things GMO, in which I learned of the solidarity from the Zapatista community–they’ve got dibs on GMO-free corn seeds, and the proceeds benefit Chiapas schools. All this back-to-the-land cooperation is heartening, surely, but now I go sheepishly back to tightening my gas cap…

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  1. Have dinner at the Hana Hotel. It’s expensive but worth it. Great real Hawaiian entertainment at the bar (not your silicone enhanced phony Hula). Probably the most delicious most authentic Hawaiian experience you will have… I have a friend who’s aunt lives in Hana… been there twice for several days. Also stop in Hasagawas (sp?) (general store), it’s kind of neat to see what they sell in the general store at the end of the earth…

    posted by Stew on 3-19-2007 at 10:07 pm

  2. thanks for the recommendations, stew! i was staying down the road from hana hotel @ the little-too-communal-for-comfort joe’s place. i headed uphill at 6:40, and they stopped serving dinner at 7, so i’ll have to try again next time. but i did stock up at the hana ranch grocery, where the snow peas and walk-in beer cooler were tops! and yes, the general store at the base of the cove was indeed trippy; so much ephemera–i bought a satchel of whole mac. nuts that doubled as a handy rattle. tons of great lighters i wouldn’t be able to bring on the plane. now when i have my own leer jet…

    posted by becky on 3-20-2007 at 5:36 pm

  3. One other item I can add. When driving on the side streets in Hana we saw a Peacock walking in someones front yard. I never expected to see a peacock outside of a zoo.

    posted by Stew on 3-21-2007 at 10:12 am

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