I have been fortunate enough to have visited Hawaii several times now. I say fortunate because of all the places I have travelled to in the world, Hawaii remains my favorite place to visit. (I always judge a destination I visit with the bottom line “Would I want to return there?” Most of the time, my answer is “No!” as in “Been there, got the postcard but don’t need to go back.”)
Hawaii always makes me feel that I don’t really need to travel anywhere else in the world. It IS paradise as Mark Twain noted in his book Roughing it In The Sandwich Islands.
“No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.”
For more of Twain’s thoughts on Hawaii check out this lecture he gave in 1873 (click here.)
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| Selfie of Me and My Girl Poolside in North Maui |
Of course Hawaii has a little bit more going for it because my Daughter Ryan lives there. She has recently moved to Maui where she is working for Maui Grown Therapies as their Medical Cannabis Advocate. Ryan is currently conducting seminars on Pain Management with Cannabis. Pam and I attended one of these sessions and believe me it’s a whole new Pot World out there from back in our nickel- bag-stems-and-seeds days. It is still available in full flower to smoke but the more popular mode of ingesting it is in the form of capsules, serums and edibles.
Found this video on Hawaii’s Medical Cannabis program.