Can I still ride a bike?

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October 20th 2008

Published: October 20th 2008

(This is a little older - Think Feb 08 - sorry that it's taken me soooo long...) When I looked at the map of the Big Island a few weeks before I flew across it kinda hit me straight away - this piece of land is made for cycling. It'd been a while (like 6 years or so) that I had packed my panniers and attached them to a two-wheeler. But something inside me was yearning for a little bit of a chang... Read Full Entry

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Aneesha

ChristinaTravelbug

Some people say I´m crazy, but what´s crazy?? I guess I am not the typical Backpacker as far as what I do and what I don´t do when I travel is concerned. The big thing for me is nature AND this trip is not only to see what´s around me but to see what´s inside me as well (adds an interesting note to it:-). Thing is also that I´m one of those travellers that find it really hard to sit INSIDE a bus looking out. I just have to be smack bang in the middle of all the beautiful places on this amazing planet. Visiting cities is easy. But how visit nature? How get around if not in a bus or a ... full info

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Coast along the trail

Same, same....

(But different)

Another pretty valley in Kaua'i

And one more

Big Island

Reflections

Big Island Impressions

Waipi'o Valley, Big Island

Waipi'o Valley

Someone told me that the locals down in the valley don't like visitors, so I carried a bl*** six pack with me - and then no one showed up to give my baksheesh to!

Waipi'o Valley

Still no one I could bribe to get rid of the heavy beer

Same, same

(but different)

Forest in Waipi'o Valley

Not my lady - just a borrowed two-wheeler

But nice to have a trailer. Kinda comfy (well, it's still hard work to drag it up a mountain)

Forgot their name

Black beaches

The whole Island is blessed with volcanic beaches

South West corner of the Big Island

Just a picture

Wood Valley

A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery - it was more or less on the way...

And then it started raining for days

So I got stuck there...

21st October 2008

Stephen Paul
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Worth the Wait
Wow, so many beautiful places! I can really feel how warm and wet and lush Hawaii is. The lava is unreal, as are the cliffs. You are a trooper pedaling all that way. "forgot their name" is a Tree Datura, genus Brugmansia native to Peru. Hallucinogenic! Your photos are a trip too...

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