There has to be a first for everyone – today was ours. We finally had the opportunity to travel around a little. A couple graciously loaned us a car this weekend and on sunday we took her up north through Kohala, hiked this cool trail down like 500ft to a secluded black sand beach. Boy was that a workout!
Well we nearly fainted from lack of dietary supplement on the way up so we hit the high country for some chinese chow. We didn’t know we were going to get chinese, but we had only a couple options, either chinese, chinese or japanese – it wasn’t too tuf!
Up in those hills (we had a lonely planet guide, but we weren’t too lonely) we met a friendly cowboy. Apparently, up there is the Parker Family Ranch – so named after Peter Parker (jj – spiderman doesn’t do so well with cows). Actually, up around the 2500 ft altitude mark we were met with warm windy conditions. Mr Parker (can’t remember his real first name) got in with the king (thats King Kamahamaha I) he made it rich off some beef and ended up with what once was the largest ranch in america (don’t mess with Texas – Hawaii). Long story short the company now owns just about all of Waimea and surround. So we enjoyed chinese up at his little town with the cows agrazin’ and the cacti agrowin’ (please use a southern drawl).
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