While in my hammock in Hawaii, I remember...

While in my hammock in Hawaii, I remember...

• Swimming in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, my first hour on the island, in the biggest waves of my life, with surfers dodging me as they cruised over me
• The sounds of Bamboo forests in the wind and the sunthee (sun through trees) barely coming through
  
  
  
• Swimming and climbing ropes past the 3rd falls to the finally waterfall
  
• Hiking in pine forests and crawling in caves
• Red sand, Black sand, Green sand, and White sand beaches
  
  
  
• Tasting my first lilikoi from a Hana farm then having one from the side of the road
• Swimming with turtle and seeing and hearing whales
  
• Driving over 72 one-lane bridges on one of the most scenic road to Hana
• Seeing full circle rainbows in waterfalls
  
• Grinding a bucket full of snails a feeding them to the chickens
• Midnight full moon hike of the ridge to an overlook of Lahaina and the farm
  
• Climbing coconut trees to collect coconuts at midnight on the way back from bar hopping
• Mountain biking down a horse trail
• Hiking from dessert conditions into the valley and transitioning to rainforest
  
  
  
• Standing up on the first wave I surfed
• The stars and the sunrise at the summit of Haleakala (10,000 ft)
  
  
  
  
• Sleeping in sub-freezing conditions with all my clothes on in a trunk
• Making a snowball
  
• Filling in, Digging out, sweeping off, shoveling off, more filling in, and weeding The Driveway
• Going to Jaws
• Harvesting Eggplant, Wing bean, Bitter mellon, Aloe, Papaya, and Banana 
• Going to Little Beach and Haleakala with L&L
• Buying plane tickets
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Thinking I was flying to the wrong island and being ok with it
• Getting offered a ride, handed a bag of chips when I got out, and within the first hour meeting friends and a place to stay
• Green sands beach and jumping off the southern most point of the USA
  
   (jumped off this cliff immediately after this picture)
  
• Going to a Petting Zoo party
• Hippies over using words like manifest, energy, shakra, channel 
• The red glow at night from an active crater
• Feeling the heat from steam vents coming out of the floor of the crater
• Feeling the waves hit me as they splashed into the lava as I was washing my clothes and bathing
• Hitching a ride 30 miles from where I was trying to go for the night, and getting picked up by people with a farm who let me spend the night at there place in the exact valley I wanted to go to 
• Discovering streams, marshes, swamps (fresh and brackish), beaches, ponds, waterfalls, river outlets and cliffs in Waipio Valley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Running out of time before my flight and catching a ride in a convertible half an hour before my flight, and then getting dropped off at the gate
  
• Going to one of the wettest places on earth and walking through a swamp at 3000ft on a beautiful sunny day
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hiking down into Waimea canyon, the grand canyon but with vegetation everywhere
  
  
  
  
  
• Hitching a scary ride going really fast down a bumpy, muddy road and getting soaked with mud
  
  
  
  
• Learning that the wind is in a hurry but it doesn't mean we have to be
• Seeing the Kalalau valley from above before hiking in
  
• Seeing Puff the Magic Dragon in the cliffs at Hanalei Bay
  
• Heading out into the jungle with no plan to come back
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bon fire Kalalau pizza
• Hiking on a closed trail where I rejuvenated at a waterfall and found and orange tree that I shook and retrieved fresh oranges for lunch
  
  
  
  
• Cruising with a couple that picked me up and took me snorkeling at a private spot, then body boarding, and then rum and oreos in the back of a pick up while it was raining
• Kicking a soccer ball around and that I can play pick up for the first time in years this summer in Baltimore
• Using coconut wireless to get news out to the world from the jungle 
• Farm hopping around Maui
  
  
  
  
• Eating so many fruits for the first time, many of which I dont remember the name of
• Finally making it to Greenleaf Farm and getting to live on a 2 acre permaculture farm/orchard
• Building the biggest fire I have ever built and kept it going for the whole time on the farm (to create ash for compost)
  
• Falling asleep by the fire
• Waking up at 4am to hitchhike to the summit of Haleakala (10,000ft) to watch the sunrise above the clouds over the pacific ocean on sliding sands trail for my last day in Hawaii