After lunch we stopped a few more places in Lihue and then headed for the airport. While there we saw Loden, Trent, Shannan, Todd, Kelly, Brian, Sara, Adam and Christine – all flying back to the mainland, while we stay in Hawaii for 5 more days. HA! We flew from Lihue to Honolulu and then Honolulu to Kona. I wish you could just fly from Lihue to Kona, but you cannot.

When we landed in Kona we got our rental car, a red Sebring and then got on the road. We were staying at the Hapuna Beach Prince about an hour north, up the coast, from the airport. The drive was easy enough, the only confusing part was that you enter the resort on the eastern side of the roade when the beach is to the west and the resort is on the beach. Ends up the road loops under the main road.

My first impressions of the Kona coast of the Hawaii (the Big Island): Very black from the lava rock and bleak. I mean, it looked like even weeds were having a hard time growing on all of the black rock. I did find this “local-style graffiti” to be pretty interesting. People would spell things out with white rocks, which really stood out from the black lava rock.

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