I had a really great weekend hanging out with new friends! On Saturday, I went to see the place that my friend Briana was staying at (she moved on Sunday), which was this really cool eco-tourism hostel type of deal called Hedonesia and there was a giant crater on the property. Very cool. Then we went to Hilo for the block party music festival. Hilo is about 25 miles away from Pahoa and we had an incredible hitch hiking experience getting there. This guy named Mark picked us up and he was just cruising around but he gladly drove us all the way there and not only that, but we spent 2.5 hours with him as he drove us around Hilo and showed us all the incredible spots that I have got to get to. He blazed us out and was so incredibly friendly, it was incredible.
We stopped on the beautiful coastline and I cannot believe I live in such a beautiful place. I, of course, went hopping across the rocks to get to the waves and it was funny to re-realize that most people don’t hop around the way I do. Here are a few pictures of how incredible it was.
Here are Briana and Mark inland…
And! a rock with a bunch of Olivine in it! Olivine is a really cool volcanic green mineral.
Then, he took us to the Boiling Pots, which is a sunken out lava tube filled with fresh water. It’s called the boiling pots because there are really really deep channels and canals under the surface that produce really strong currents that spin the water and make it look like the water is boiling. Apparently, it’s kind of dangerous sometimes to swim and people have dove in never to surface again. It was an incredible sight and I will definitely go swimming there sometime…
Mark dropped us off right where the action was just beginning and Briana had a great time listening to the music (mostly reggae and Hawaiian music) and we met up with some of her friends including this really cool family, who we ended staying with on Saturday night in a town called Volcano. I was all amped up to try and camp out in Hilo, but Briana thought I was crazy and even though I brought a sleeping bag, after it rained for awhile and I saw how many cops were there that would have been likely to kick us out, I conceded and we slept at a house. With walls. It was kind of weird, I’ve gotten really used to sleeping outside with the bugs and the sun. It was actually cold up there, at about 3,500ft, and it made me glad to live in the jungle. The family we stayed with have lived all around the world and one of their daughters was with them who is my age. They’re really neat hippies who have lived in Australia, Greece, India, and all over.
Anyway, since we slept in Volcano, we didn’t go to Liliuokalani's birthday celebration, which I was bummed about but Sunday was a really good day anyway. After a lot of shenanigans with the family we finally made it down to Kehena beach for the afternoon. The waves were especially entertaining and the beach was pretty busy, which was fun.
I made a most incredible connection with this woman that I first met about a week and a half ago, who showed up a little before we left. She is just visiting from Colorado, but the moment that we met, we had this incredible palpable connection that just expanded as we were talking on Sunday and I was saying all these things that I knew she needed to hear. I’m not sure where all the sageness was coming from, but she’s in a transitionary period in her life and I could see the things that I was saying were positively effecting her. I don’t know. It was just incredible and I really hope that I see her again in my life.
As amazing as it was to talk to someone who I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life to meet, what happened next was even more of an experience. I went to krishna pizza, which is a chanting session and a free dinner sponsored by this guy who owns a really big organic farm/hare krishna community. This wasn’t a regular hare krishna thing, It was rock n roll hare krishna with guitars and drums and a keyboard. I really got into it and dancing and stuff, there is something about chanting with a bunch of people that really makes meditating easy. I really enjoyed the experience and the food was sooo good. There was home made pizza and dal and greens. It was so good and the community that gathered there are really interesting and I can’t wait to go again.
The whole weekend I had really good luck hitch hiking. For instance, after krishna pizza, it was really dark and I was nervous about hitching, but the first car that passed picked me up and it was so easy.
Conclusion: The aloha spirit is incredible.
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