Archives for June 29, 2007

The old country road took turns past the sugar cane and pineapple fields. We climbed up the mountain to far, far away from tourist filled areas of the island. High on the hill near the cows, goats, donkeys, and chickens sat our home for the next eight days.

We were indeed getting away from it all.

– No internet.
– No landline.
– No stores.
– No neighbors.

At 7,000 feet elevation you can see pretty darn far. It was only another 3,000 feet to the summit of Haleakala (Maui’s 10,000 foot volcano) but I wasn’t keep on making the trip to the tourist filled location. I was content to just hang out with the family.

Look at the view; who wouldn’t be content?

Cheery music plays overhead as I sit in my seat. My seatbelt is fastened and all three of us are seated together – thanks to persistence and waiting in a third line. On board the flight attendants scurry up and down the isles. YaYa helps to set the mood for the trip with his blue and white flowered shirt.

It will be a long trip. We have YaYa’s stuffed Beary, card games and books to help occupy the time. We will be traveling into a new time zone. We will be arriving after many hours of travel, yet the clock will have hardly moved. As if time was suspended, we will be left with a full day to discover our new paradise.