tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44798795423296397042024-03-13T18:06:46.776-07:00daneandamydaneandamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447984026614244940noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4479879542329639704.post-22416977848270427972012-10-22T06:34:00.001-07:002012-10-22T10:42:56.734-07:00<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">Giant's Causeway</span></div>
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We went over to the tip of Northern Ireland this week and visited a most unusual, geological site: The Giant's Causeway.</div>
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Its formation began over 60 million years ago as lava flowed down to the ocean and quickly cooled.</div>
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The result was 40,000 balsalt columns, mostly hexagons and usually about 30 centimeters in diameter. We had never seen anything like it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sligo with Ken and Nancy</span></div>
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This last week our good friends from home, Ken and Nancy, came over to Ireland. We met them for a few days in Sligo, just south of Donegal.</div>
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Sligo is noted as the home and burial site of the poet W.B. Yeats, Ireland's most famous poet. Everywhere there were reminders: Yeats Inn, Yeats Park, Yeats Pub.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The Cradle Song</span><br />
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The angels are stooping<br />
Above your bed;<br />
They weary of trooping<br />
With the wimpering dead.<br />
God's laughing in Heaven<br />
To see you so good;<br />
The Sailing Seven<br />
Are gay with His mood.<br />
I sigh that kiss you,<br />
For I must own<br />
That I shall miss you<br />
When you have grown.<br />
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Sligo, like much of Ireland, is varied in its landscape and history. There was much to see:</div>
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And the place we've got our eye on:</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Donegal Coast</span></div>
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This last weekend we traveled around the coast of Donegal. We are amazed at how much shore line there is to see and explore. We didn't expect to see miles of sandy beaches:</div>
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And much of the shore is rugged rock:</div>
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And although there are vast hillsides of the beautiful green Ireland is known for, on much of the land there are rocks:</div>
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Unlike the east where hedge is used to divide the plots, here rocks do the job:</div>
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We went to Derry this weekend; it's in Northern Ireland and only ten miles away. Unlike a couple of decades ago, now there are no border guards. In fact, we had a hard time finding where the division between Ireland and Northern Ireland is.</div>
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Derry is a historic city; its origins incased in a historic wall, early 1600's, sometimes 26 feet high and 30 feet wide. Although it was attacked many times, its walls were never breeched.</div>
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This is a complex county. We are just beginning to understand the strife this country has had, through its own revolution, its divisional separation from England, and its internal struggles. The remnants of this were apparent in Derry, where much of the violent demonstration of conflict occurred in the latter part of the 20th century.</div>
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Although the violence abated several decades ago, in Derry, where much of the conflict happened (Derry is 80% Catholic), reminders of the angst abound. Thirty foot murals continue to remind people of the past strife. </div>
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I can't help but wonder what the children who are visually inundated daily must be thinking. </div>
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There are, however, signs of reconciliation:</div>
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And on another positive note, recently, a symbolic bridge was constructed across the River Foyle, one noted for it architectual innovation and called the Peace Bridge.</div>
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Yesterday we arrived in Buncrana, where we will be for five weeks. The weather continues to be wonderful. Again, "What's this stuff about rain?" </div>
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We took a long drive around the Inishowen Peninsula today. What a beautiful country. And the people continue to be friendly, polite and forgiving of our ignorance. I suspect that, in part, this may be because, historically, they have never been a privileged society. They have never been in a position to look down, and so generosity seems lateral. Maybe.</div>
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Here are some pics of the peninsula: </div>
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We did go to the races last week and bet on what we thought were some fine looking thoroughbreds.</div>
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And although it was fun, we each lost our 2 euros. It was an experience to watch the hoi polloi, a real mixed crowd. Most were far more experienced than we.</div>
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From there we had planned to head up the northeast coast, but we changed our minds and headed west: first down to the Ring of Kerry and the Dingle Peninsula. From there we continued north through Connemara County Claire, and now we've been in County Donegal for the last two days. Tomorrow we head up to Buncrana where we'll be for the next five weeks. </div>
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Here are some shots of where we've been:<br />
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daneandamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447984026614244940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4479879542329639704.post-11993710996053287962012-09-14T05:27:00.000-07:002012-09-14T07:04:36.117-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Tullow</span><br />
This last week Amy and I have been around the southeast side of Ireland, mostly in Wicklow and Carlow counties. The weather has been wonderful. We keep asking, "What's this stuff about rain?"<br />
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Tomorrow we start heading to the north of Ireland. Our first stop is the race horses in Curragh. We've never been to the races before, but they seem to be quite popular. I'm planning on putting my 2 euro bet down on the one that Amy says looks happy. From there we plan on seeing some ancient sites called Hill of Tara and Bragh na Bonnie. Then we'll make our way to the top in Buncrana where we'll be for five weeks.<br />
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Here are some shots of where we've been:<br />
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daneandamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447984026614244940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4479879542329639704.post-5925648053890695592012-09-11T09:42:00.000-07:002012-09-11T09:42:48.712-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ireland -Its people</span><br />
Today's Topic: <span style="font-size: large;">Neatness</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although Ireland is not by any means a wealthy country, it has a fastidious and tidy nature. The people and the towns are clean, and the people take pride in their spartan lifestyle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even though in Dublin city we did find the ubiquitous, spay-painted graffiti, this seems an anomaly. In the small towns, the majority of Ireland, we found the walls and streets to be cared for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We witnessed this in the quaint village of Enniskerry where we saw townspeople on their hands and knees in the street's gutters with dust pans and hand brooms brushing up the street's litter. "Will you look at that," I said to Amy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This pride in town was most public in today's <em>Irish Times</em> which published the results of the country's tidy contest. It devoted a two page spread, listing each town's score of cleanliness, each town rated: With the winning town receiving a 10,000 euro prize!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This a country with a history centuries-old and a country which is determined to preserve it. And although the people are in an unstable, financial world of limbo, their sense of place and its value are things within their control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday we went to a loud and raucous pub to watch on a
big screen the National Irish Hurling Championship game between County Galway
and County Kilkenny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had never heard
of “hurling” before, but here in Ireland it’s as big, if not bigger than soccer
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s something like lacrosse, but
the sticks have flat blades not nets, and the game is just as rugged and
physical. We didn’t understand all of the rules, but we got the gist. After
much back and forth, in the end the score was tied, and everyone started
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The whole game?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Yah, next week.”</span></div>
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As you can see, Dane and I have been busy playing in Maui while mom has been at work. It has been a wonderful week and I can't believe it has gone by so fast! Tomorrow's adventures include snorkeling, exploring the crater at Haleakala, beach time, and crossword puzzles (for Dane). </div>
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Every few days I go down to our local loko (an ancestral fish pond) and hope that our fisherman has come in with his catch.</div>
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Off the back of their pickup, Greg and his wife set up shop.</div>
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Here he is with a mahi mahi. On a good day's catch he'll get 20 to 30 either mahi mahi, ahi or ono.</div>
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And I'll bring home a bag of mahi mahi. How we will miss this. It doesn't get any fresher.</div>
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This last weekend we took a puddle jumper over to the Big Island and got a different experience from one here in Maui.</div>
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Our first stop was to experience the growing fields of the world-known Kona Valley and its coffee.</div>
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The Kona bean's unique flavor is due to the rich composition of the lava base.</div>
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We shared our breakfast with geckos with Australian accents </div>
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Unlike Maui, much of the water around the Big Island is that beautiful, aqua-blue found in the Caribbean.</div>
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We drove to the top of the Kilauea Crater, and although there are parts of it that continue to flow, we were only allowed access to it gaseous spew.</div>
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The Big Island is a much younger island than Maui, the lava flows much newer, and the many lava flows dominate much of the landscape.</div>
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Sometimes, for as far as the eye could see, mile after mile, was the barren blackness. We found a lot of it ugly, and a lot of ugly.</div>
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However, not all of the landscape was bleak. In the northern end near Hawi, we found rolling green hills reminiscent of Ireland (a tip o' the hat to the Irish alcove).</div>
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Flying home we saw from above another river of lava as it had flowed to the sea.</div>
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These last two pictures are of a Haleakala silversword, found only on Maui and only above 7000 feet. They bloom once (bottom picture) after fifty years, then they die. Wow.</div>daneandamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447984026614244940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4479879542329639704.post-63164257573862986862012-03-09T21:55:00.000-08:002012-03-09T21:55:29.565-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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We had a surprise storm last night that even seemed to impress the locals. None that we talked to had ever seen anything like it. If it was a typhoon (we're still not sure because we're cut off from the outside), it sure felt like it. As we lay in bed, we worried that our roof could go above us. The lightning outside was continuous. If I had been adventurous enough to go outside, I wouldn't have needed a flashlight.</div>
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The Hana Bay Beach is usually clean and pristine</div>
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Trees and roads were ripped up<br />
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This weekend was mostly cloudy and rainy so it was a weekend to hang at "home." Not exotic, but definitely not cold or gloomy. The prickly succulent in front of out house is commonly called "Mother-In-Law's Tongue".</div>
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Well, slightly exotic. This is growing among the weeds next to our car-park.</div>
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And this is the car with which we brave the local roads.</div>
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And all the guacamole we can eat and lemonade we can drink!</div>daneandamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447984026614244940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4479879542329639704.post-33462404049278727232012-02-29T11:50:00.002-08:002012-02-29T11:50:36.828-08:00<span style="font-size: large;"> Guest Bloggers Ken and Nancy Tripp</span><br />
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Our first three days were in Kihei on Maalaea Bay. Yes, the sunsets looked like this every night.</div>
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The views from 10,023 feet at the summit of Haleakala "Crater" were spellbinding.</div>
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Our whale watch adventure brought us to a "competition" group. The males push each other down and sometimes cover the other suitor's blowhole. What guys will do to get the girl. Geez.</div>
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A bamboo forest. The sound of the clacking stalks became my new favorite.</div>
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When I pulled into a spot overlooking <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Koki</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Beach</placetype></place>, I looked down and saw a little kid, maybe 8 or 9, with a small life vest on, floating alone in the waves on a boogie board. But as I watched, so quickly he started floating out into the choppy waves to the open sea. He kicked to shore but to no avail. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tide was stronger than he. </div>
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I had heard of the strong rip tides at <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Koki</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Beach</placetype></place>. There were signs of caution around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw it all happening, and just as I realized how much trouble this kid was in, as the pull pushed him farther away from the shore, I saw a man swimming steadily toward him. It was clear what was going on, to the kid as well. He was panicked and flailing. </div>
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We took the ferry from Lahaina to the small <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">island</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Lanai</placename></place> (18 miles x 18 miles) and saw about fifty whales on the way over. It’s their yearly migration from <state w:st="on">Alaska</state> to the waters between Maui, Molokai and <place w:st="on">Lanai</place> to birth their pups each winter and then head back north. To see the whales was not why we went to <place w:st="on">Lanai</place>, but it was a bonus to the trip. <place w:st="on">Lanai</place> is a different story. Actually we found it to be a sad story, the story of <place w:st="on">Lanai</place>.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><place w:st="on">Lanai</place> had been most known as being the pineapple center of the world, but no more, not now. We found <place w:st="on">Lanai</place>’s history to be one of exploitation as it tries to cling on to its history.</div>
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Farmed by the natives, the company thrived until the late 1980’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But because of cheaper labor in other parts of the world, Dole moved elsewhere, pulled up the plants and left a decimated landscape of barren valleys stripped of life.</div>
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When we left on the ferry back to Lahaina we saw more whales and we both agreed: this was the happiest part of the trip.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> While Amy has been working at the clinic (and she promises that she will post a blog about her job and experiences as the doctor of Hana) I have been working with juniors at <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Hana</placename> <placetype w:st="on">High School</placetype></place> with their preparation for the spring SAT test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s what I know how to do. It’s what I’ve done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In many ways the students I have are very similar to what I know from back home in <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New Hampshire</place></state>. Kids are kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I doubt this is different world over. However there are distinctions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First is grade performance. Although it’s a small school -graduating classes of 20 plus or minus- the top score for the previous SAT test was 440. That’s the <u>top</u> score. The national average is 500. So I knew from the onset that I had much to do. It’s not that the kids are dumb; as I said, kids are kids. It’s just that there are other factors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First: Education does not seem to be a cultural priority. Families have been here for generations. Everyone is related. Large families of seven siblings or more are the norm. And then there are the aunts, uncles and grandparents all living together in the same, sometimes limited, quarters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Education for the sake of mobility is not a societal focus. Hence, absenteeism and the dropout rate are issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Secondly, this is paradise, and the students are very aware of this. The temperature never gets below 64 and never above 85 –all year round; the beaches and land are beautiful; the people here have a rich culture and history; and they are the happiest people I have ever met. There is much to be satisfied<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I understand the attitude of questioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where in the world is it better?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an educator, this leaves me with a motivational challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, I could give the pitch about learning for its own sake, but in this case that doesn’t really work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the short time I’m here, my sole job is to push for learning not for learning’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sake, but rather, learning to do well on a test. Clearly, I’m conflicted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What luck! Just as we were arriving at our favorite beach, Hamoa, a Hawaiian monk seal was swimming in the waves and moving closer to shore. Determined to beach itself, it waddled up about ten feet and lay there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Initially, I thought illness or injury, but Amy knew better. It came to take a nap, as is the habit of the monk seal. Shortly after the monk seal settled down, police came and set up yellow barrier tape. When we left the beach, it was still snoozing in the sun.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The monk seal, endemic to <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Hawaii</place></state>, is on the critically endangered list, and only 1,100 exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hana is unlike any other part of <place w:st="on">Maui</place>. Although there are beaches (at least 5 that are swimmable) there are no beach resorts, no high rises (a two story home is as big as it gets) no jet ski rentals, no surf shops, no Burger Kings or any other type of franchise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the far eastern end of <place w:st="on">Maui</place>, the local community of Hana works hard to maintain its identity, its culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is unlike much of the rest of the island which, we are told, is nothing like it was 20 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To a large part this lack of development is because of the difficulty of getting here. The Hana Highway is world-known for its beauty and its treacherous nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But once the tourists get here (and for some unknown reason they come in either Mustang convertibles or silver Jeeps -Why? I don’t know) there is just not much for those who are thrill seekers to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I overheard one tourist getting out of his ubiquitous Mustang ask, “This is why we drove all this way, banana bread?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The beauty of Hana is not showy; it’s in its simplicity, and it takes time to see it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Much of Hana is land for beef cows to be sold stateside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One travel brochure described this as Hana's "mall." It consists of a gift shop, a small restaurant, the post office, and the bank which is open for an hour and a half a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Hasegawa General Store, serving Hana since 1910.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Some of the coastline is rugged rock</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may have heard of breadfruit as the metaphorical source of the mutiny on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bounty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Today while walking through a breadfruit grove, we found one on the ground. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a bright green with a pebbly texture. Weighing approximately twelve pounds, it was at the time, only slightly sappy sticky. This would change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We inquired why we had never seen one for sale in the local stores, as they are clearly abundant in the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can now only surmise it is because of its extreme stickiness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cutting it into quarters was a task, but nothing compared to the cleanup afterward. Like the pinesap back home of our local firs, I thought only a quality turpentine would cut the goo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Amy cut it up smaller and put the chunks, like winter squash, into a large pot to boil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The breadfruit is a pasty starch, slightly sweet and thickly heavy, that when swallowed falls to the bottom of the stomach. We couldn’t help but think of what an ideal food this would be for the starving masses of the world, as the one we had chopped up would seem to feed at least three dozen at a pop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If we had a family of thirty to feed, this would be on the menu. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even though it had more flavor than potatoes, we tossed the bulk of it, as it was too heavy and not worth the chore, and I came away agreeing: Fletcher had made the right choice.</span></div>
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