I had good intentions, but I didn’t quite make it.
So the rest of the trip was also a blast.  We climbed through lava tubes (lava formed caves), hiked up behind a waterfall to a place we dubbed “never never land”, waded across a river,  snorkled in tidepools, swam in a lava-heated hotspring, shopped at farmers [...]

Following up from last night, the most impressive thing about the observatory was how car sick I was while we were driving up there.  Since I was in the backseat, every hill, dip, curve, turn, drop in the road sucked.  Bad.  The observatory would have been cool, but the rainy weather caused them to bring [...]

The flight was uneventful enough. We landed to discover that the Honolulu airport is tiny, old, and laid out very very oddly. As we proceeded to the connecting gate for our flight to the Big Island, we rode a shuttle bus, walked down really long halls, went indoors and outdoors about 100 times, and ended [...]