Liralen's Adventures Through Life

Planning... So today was the day we decided to scout the whole of the North Shore, just heading north from our base and going as far as it was possible to go. Kaua'i is like most of the islands here, i.e. an island with a road around it, and a few roads that go up to the top of the mountain in the middle of the island. The road around this particular island, though, isn't a closed ring. The shaping and wear on the mountains to the north cut deep valleys between ridges, and the roads get less and less possible to make the more they try to cross the deep cut valleys from the wear of the water that falls constantly on the top of the mountain.  Both Kaua'i and Hawai'i are shaped that way. Not so much Maui or some of the other islands.  But that means that there is an End of the Road going either way along the ring around Kaua'i. And to day we went North.  After a solid breakfast of an egg, a couple slices of sausage, a single slice of toast, two spoonfuls of plain yogur

The last time we came to Kaua'i was in 1993, right after hurricane Iniki. It was pretty sparse back then, as the whole island was rebuilding, we stayed at one of the few hotels that was still whole, and we ate at one of the very very few "fish" restaurants and the waiter there thought we were remarkable as we were dressed like a native, but no native would be eating fish at a restaurant. Everyone had plenty of fish off their boat or their uncle or cousin's boat. They wouldn't be paying money for fish. It's very different now. We've also been to Hawaii a few times, including a trip to the big island after Jet graduated, so that he'd get a trip to Hawaii under his belt before he left home, and then another to Maui to look for whales. We love the Big Island a lot, but memories of little, old Kaua'i with it's perpetual rain storm at the top of the island prompted us to come back when we were thinking of how to escape the winter cold of Colorado. I