We’re going to be headed to Hawaii in less than a week! I’m hoping to be able to revisit this beautiful beach, the one where I dropped my parents’ ashes into the ocean. The current off this coast runs straight to Tahiti, so I thought that might be a nice place to let them go. Don’t know if they ever made it to Tahiti, of course, but I like to imagine them there, as part of some gorgeous reef perhaps.
We’ll only be visiting the island of Kauai, where my parents’ timeshare was located and that I inherited. So no exploring the big island this time and finding its farthest reaches. I actually kind of like the more limited location trips. I really enjoyed going to Paris and just seeing the city last year, not feeling like we had to get out and see all of France or all of Europe or whatever. I think it made us feel more connected to the place we were visiting. So this time, we’ll really get to know Kauai well and connect there, and find the less traveled spots that we will enjoy even more.
And I’m taking along my best friend from grade school and high school and her husband, so this will be a fun trip indeed! Can’t wait!
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Just be glad you’re going to beaches that don’t have tarballs, sheen and muck coming in with the tides. Imagine how your frame of mind would be different if you were headed to coastal Louisiana!
Indeed! And glad my beaches here are still mostly clean, too….
I am probably going to South Florida in July — hope their beaches will still be ok.
Sigh. I’ll see Hawai’i someday…..
Well, but you’ve been to Florida — I’ve only ever passed through Miami once. And as far as the Northeast, I’ve only ever been to New York… spent my childhood roaming the southwest, mostly. And in my travels as an adult we’re usually roaming California or up in the Pacific Northwest.