it's day four in maui and it's uh 6
45 a.m which means i slept through all my alarms to go see the Haleakala
volcano at sunrise, which means i'm gonna have to go do that tomorrow and today
i'm just gonna switch things up go to the road to hana, which is supposed to be
one of the most beautiful things in all of Maui to all my friends that are
concerned about me driving a pickup (truck) no i'm not banging my cousin yet.
I'm at the Keanae lookout point, okay can't stop.
Gotta move on, there's a lot to see.
So what you just saw back there is sort of a blowhole created by volcanic rock these things are pretty common in pretty much every island in hawaii and uh this place is called Waianapanapa State park.
I think i'm the only person i've seen so far in this
park which is uh nice i guess. More recently local set up checkpoints to stop
travelers from.. or tourists from coming here. There didn't seem to be any
today so that's good but i'm still trying to respect what the locals were
trying to do there's not a lot of good like medical resources on the eastern
side of maui and they're trying to protect their vulnerable population and i
completely understand that which is why i came out with food and water and
everything else i'm gonna need and i'm gonna try to not to talk to anyone
throughout the whole day.
That did not work. Shoes definitely got drenched, It's
3 pm right now and i think i'm on my last stop for the day on the road to Hana.
This is actually past Hana. I think i've driven only around. 60 miles or 100
kilometers but that whole road is so winding, for the most part you can't go
more than 10 or 20 miles per hour so this took three and a half hours of
driving to get here. Where i'm at right now is technically inside Haleakala
national park.
As you can see the trails are a lot better marked
here and this one's meant more for tourists but it's got some nice views. It's
the pools of Ohe'o behind me, right now and there's like another trail that i
think i'm gonna go on in a second. so i was driving back home and i just found
this trail on the side of the road this is ridiculous .what a way to end the
day
it's 4 30 a.m
about to head to the volcano summit,
it's gonna be super cold out there so i need to take all my winter clothes with
me because the elevation is around 10 000 feet or three kilometers i am at the
su mmit. this is f***ing awesome. It's pretty cold but not as bad as I expected
it to be. I'm gonna drive up to a different spot now. oh my eyes are getting
watery
it's not because i'm emotional but it's the wind but
this view is probably one of the more incredible things i've seen Really makes
me thankful to be alive. This brings me to why i couldn't make it why i
couldn't wake up yesterday. So for those of you who watched the last post,
i almost drowned like one and a half days ago in the
evening when i was surfing and i was in shock At first i was in denial but then
I couldn't sleep that's why i couldn't wake up at 3am and then i started
thinking about death for the last day or so and something .i've realized is that
if i were to die right now. it would really suck for my friends and my family and
i do want to live but i don't think i would die with a lot of regrets and i
think it's entirely because for the last three years or so
i've been living with the intention of making the
most of every moment and it started right after my trip to indonesia with my mom
if you guys have been following this channel for a couple of years but i met a
guy at a hostel on new year's day 2018. and he told me the story about his dad
who passed away at a young age uh his dad didn't do what he wanted to do his
whole life because he was saving.
it for when he gets old and he never got to get old But
that story changed my life. That story sort of made me realize that i was his
dad. My life was heading in that direction. I was putting off traveling
extensively, doing all the things i love just for a safer future And i don't
want to say that planning for the future is not important but it's also
important to live for now, To live like there might not be a tomorrow. i hope
this was a useful message to whoever's watching friends, family, strangers..
maybe myself 20 years down the line if i need a
reminder but yeah. It's good to live for the present it's not always happy times
and it's a right now so there's loneliness and depression but in general in
life, i'm content with myself and i don't think that was something i was able
to say a couple of years ago. All right that's enough for the emotional talk.
it's 6 30 a.m and i'm back home again it's crazy how
many cats there always are in this driveway About to go to this place called
Hookipa beach to try to find some turtles now, so this is a sp ot where i've
been surfing two of the last three evenings and it looks a lot less crowded in
the evenings or in the mornings than it does in the evenings. i realized
yesterday that there are a lot of turtles here all the time so I figured i'd just come here and try to get some shots
of them.
it's crazy how clumsy these things look on the land
but in the water they move so much faster than i ever will if you've watched
the last video you remember when i was chilling on my surfboard and this one
popped up and hit my foot and before i could even look underwater properly to
see what's going on it was like gone three feet away all right it's been real
in Maui. the usual stuff And now i'm off to the next hawaiian
island
Kauai
Right here is the coolest hike I have done in Hawaii so far
i'm not sure how anything else could beat views like
this…
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