From Maui, With Love 1

As some of you know, I went on a trip to Hana, Maui with L and his family. I had no reception in the valleys, so I had no way to update! Booo.

Hana is a very small town on the far windward side of Maui, famously the deathplace/grave of Charles Lindbergh and the area Oprah purchased to prevent unwanted commercial development. To get there you can fly from the Kahului airport (which is in the middle of the northern shore) into the tiny Hana municipal airport. Or you can do what most people do and make THE MOST RIDICULOUS DRIVE EVER through Maui on these ludacrous winding mountain roads. The roads were originally gravel and not made for cars, so on the most dangerous curves and precarious ledges and bridges, it dips into one lane only. One lane TOTAL. People coming the opposite direction have to wait until oncoming traffic passes by before they can proceed. The road also can't go for more than 100 feet without making some kind of loony hairpin curve. Apparently it's so jerky ride that many people get seasick. It makes the 52 mile drive take somewhere between two and four hours depending on traffic and the condition of the roads that day.

About halfway there we got a flat. The right front was flat like I have never seen, it was FLAT. Riding on the hub cap flat. At first I was like "oh we have a spare, we're good." the. We hear sshhhhh coming from the rear right tire.

Eff. Okay, we'll call AAA or the rental company to come help. Take out my handy Internet phone and OH no reception. For any of us.

Okay well, we were smart enough to get two vehicles! The other can go on ahead and get a tow truck. What's that? There's no tow truck or mechanic in all of Hana? Okay. Well they can to ahead and call someone then.

Here's the road right behind us

In front of us is a bridge that makes another one lane hairpin, and across the valley (to the right of that photo) is this



Can you see the road?

L's dad and brother go on to make a call and and they're leaving, his mom adds "make sure you're back soon, once it gets dark there are no lights on this road."