On our first day in Maui, we drove the road to Hana. This is a long, twisty road and it's definitely an all day drive. We stopped at a lot of places including Twin Falls and some state beaches, and we were supposed to be at a black sand beach between 11:00 and 12:00 but we were almost two hours late for that time slot. We still managed to get in, the woman said we had 20 minutes. This was enough time for us to walk down to the beach and scatter some of Linda's ashes into the water and soak up the sun and waves for a little bit. We continued on to the seven sacred pools, where we had trouble getting into the National Park because the woman at the gate was not friendly and not helpful. We had a picture of our parks pass, but she said that wasn't good enough since they now had digital passes. So, we pulled over and were able to turn our physical paths into a digital pass through the app. Long story short 10 minutes later we drove through the gate into the park. It was hard to see any of the seven sacred pools though as there was so much vegetation around them and we can no longer go down to the pools themselves. Apparently there was a landslide or something a few years ago making it dangerous to go down to the polls. We tried hiking up to a viewpoint which was basically a mile straight uphill, but we really couldn't see a lot from there either. So, the seven sacred pools were kind of a disappointment for me although we did get to see a giant banyan tree.
Rather than driving back on the road to Hana we decided to drive around Haleakalā to get back to our hotel. This took us through some different landscapes, a lot of open fields with cattle grazing everywhere. We actually had a cow-jam, where we had to wait for the stupid cows to get off the road before we could continue. All part of the adventure. We got back so late though that we just grabbed some subway to bring back to our room for dinner for calling it a night. The road to Hana is a great drive and definitely a must-do when on Maui.
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