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and happy to be back.
many of you must have been there before, but i've never been so i write down some of my thoughts :
-they say it's paradise on earth. not so sure about that : fantastic ocean experience for sure, but i think i would be bored in 6 months flat at most.
-it IS a fantastic place for driver. nobody reads "speed limit" sign. almost everybody speeds but there are some left lane hogs too. "road to haha" or haleakala is the most curvy roads i've ever EVER driven.
at the same time, road to hana, i feel is quite overrrated. there's some cool scenery and waterfall and stuff but this route took me almost 7 hours to cover, stopping everywhere where tourists were stopping, only covering roughly 65 miles. it is a slow drive and it becomes quite tedious after couple hours.
-food is f-king expensive : how can seafood be more expensive in the middle of the f-king ocean than up here in the mountains? our seafood gets gawdamn flown in. everything else is expensive too, holy cow.
-snorkling is so much fun
-didn't know ocean could be that crystal clear.
-mazda 3 rental i had was ... umm very fuel efficient. too twitchy on highway, but great dance partner thru the canyon fo sure. didn't particularly like the car very much though.
-budget rental car company sucked.
