Aloha Spirit

Hostels are great, you always meet people, usually team up and go on excursions, etc. Others tell you what you absolutely have to do and see, and sometimes you feel stressed by the abundance of things you still have to do before you continue your journey. Not so in Hana. I have my own little hut in the middle of the rainforest. Two weeks without a tourist program, just for me to unwind. The thing with nature is a bit tricky, nice to look at, but you share the living space with all sorts of multi-legged counterparts. One evening, I spent 2 hours eliminating earwigs, various mosquitoes, and a few roaches. Apparently, a gecko thought it needed to have about 15 offspring in my hut, which I had to catch and throw outside with a glass. The next evening, I discovered the 10 cm big gecko mom. The glass was too small and the gecko was too quick. I couldn't bring myself to catch it with my hand, let alone kill it. So now she's living somewhere here with me. The next day, about two dozen houseflies hatched in my trash, it's always good to have a flip flop nearby.
I help the owner of the property weed, harvest, and weed some more for two hours a day. Like I said, nature. In the morning, we meditate for half an hour, which fits well with my plan to slow down and then I make pancakes. One Friday, I got to work on a garden project, weeded for 2 hours for a whole table full of vegetables and fruit. I immediately cooked a huge vegetable pan with lemongrass and basil and served it with chive yogurt and lemonade. I've already cracked a coconut by myself (45 minutes of work only to find out it was inedible). Otherwise, I spend my time hiking and driving, on the beach, reading, and listening to music. And one day, I got to go canoeing in a real Hawaiian canoe. That was an adventure. And boy, did I have sore muscles afterwards.
Yesterday, I went to another paradise on earth, half an hour away. The Seven Pools. Again, everything full of threatening warning signs.
The internet is not so great here in Hana, but today I drove to Paia, a super duper hippie village where I have nothing better to do than hang out in an internet café and buy myself a new bikini hihi.
I hope you're excited about the photos. I'm going to continue ignoring more prohibition signs.