I was beginning to worry that the two general stores up here were trading back and forth the same sorry looking head of iceberg lettuce, cabbage and withered carrots. But I got up early Sunday and went to the Farmer's Market in Volcano Village.
Hydroponice lettuce (about 5 kinds), summer squash, deep red tomatoes, orange, yellow, green peppers, fresh herbs, beets, cucumbers, huge purple avocadoes, kale. Fresh baked bread, malasadas (fried portuguese doughnuts), Thai food, hummus in 5 flavors and more. All at cheaper than health food store prices. I think I can suffer here.
We all went to church and met lots of friendly people, and kids Dash's age. Church starts at 8:30 here, and is followed by brunch. After a rest, we went into VNP (Volcanoes National Park) and hiked down into Kilauea via the Sandalwood trail. See photos above. It's about a mile hike from the lodge at the top to the crater floor, through rain forest and giant chunks of cooled lava that fell down in various earthquakes. From above, the crater floor looks like a smooth surface, but when you are on it it looks like a huge parking lot gone bad. Imagine what it would like if you poured tar over a rough ocean and let it cool.
I found a spot shaped like a beach lounger and took a nap while Dean and Dash hiked out to check out a sulphur vent.
For dinner we had lots of fresh vegetables dipped in roast jalapeno/pineapple hummus. This was to counteract the previous night's dinner of smoked portuguese sausage and canned baked beans. I'm still jet-lagged and anemic so I went to bed at 7:30.
Happy Memorial Day!
3 comments:
uyes
no, that was a typo to see if it worked!
so, mail me some vegetables!
at long last, we are "neighbors"
(neighbor island kine neighbors)
are you doing ok there with pidgin?
remember any?
Wow I can see that you will be playing tourist for a while, or wait, are you really playing resident now? All this hiking around volcanos and golf course walks and meals at off the map eateries in an ocean paradise.. sigh... but I bet you miss bulldozers knocking down trees across the street and how about smoke from wild land fires miles away? I guess you have to change the blog title again.. how to make other people wish they lived in Hawaii... glad you all are safe and together...
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