The Magic Day Arrived!

At last! I got my lifetime US National Park pass; cost: ten dollars (and 62 years). This was a thrilling day! For the REST OF MY LIFE I can visit any National Park FOR FREE! The cost of the pass rises in a couple of weeks to $80, so I’m doing a lucky strut dance right now. In the distance, just behind the top right corner of the beloved pass, the steam/smoke of Halema‘uma‘u rises.

Besides getting the pass, I also cruised the island hoping to get in the ocean (but not accomplishing that) and taking photos of trippy stuff. Here you are:

Just past Naalehu, headed to Volcano; it is indeed a big island.

This is an old company truck; the bottom lettering reads ‘Kealakekua’.

. . . who guard all this rustee, broken krap.

This old car will not get up from its nap.

I love the ‘mahalo’ sign! West Hawai`i is apparently very hard on cars.

It wasn’t a birthday celebrated in Venice, but it was a good day. In the evening, I attended a friend’s wake. On my birthday in Venice, I visited Isola di San Michele (Venice’s separate cemetery island). And now this year, a wake. It is a good idea to contemplate mortality; it pushes me to live more fully.

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