Maui Vacation

[Loren]

Starting the research... turns out that "the big island" isn't at all what I thought it was. I guess Oahu is the island that I had in my head. Hawaii looks a lot like Maui in most ways, it's just bigger and has an active volcano.

We're on our way towards planning a "road trip" around the big island so that we can hit all the high points without having to spend all of our time driving back and forth to a single hotel. It's looking like staying in 3 places for a couple nights each should do the trick.

Cathy is astounded by the level of access to active lava flows (some hiking required, of course), and some cave that goes down into a lava tube also has her intrigued. Going down in to a "lava tube" anywhere near an active volcano seems like a pretty dumb thing to do in my opinion... but I guess it's not much dumber than just being on the island in the first place.