Hawaii

The missile range memory is an error and probably applies to a different lesser island, bad memory, no big deal.

I took the road clockwise to the the end at Halawa Bay one afternoon, had my work to do on another day, visited a couple galleries and then an artist's home on the last day, buying a beautiful watercolor and oil.

The best was on day two, when at the urging of locals I decided to do the touristy thing of taking the mule ride down to Kalaupapa.

I found the people to be most inviting and friendly, possibly more so than any other island residents as a whole among those I've met, but then it might be that I was there on a mission to help them and to make their effort to be independent stronger.

Mules are incredible. The colony was interesting and the trip by bus beyond the colony to the original site was the high point.

I highly recommend the mule trip. It was more terrifying than skydiving from north shore Oahu last year.