Tag: Molokai

Here’s a quick review of our week on Molokai from the ridiculous to the sublime…a gorgeous but sad view of Kalaupapa, the leper colony.  In the 1800’s people would bring those ill with leprosy and dump them into the surf and paddle away.  Sight of incredible suffering and breathtakingly beautiful.  After 1969, due to sulfa […]

On the drive from the airport to our condo we discovered immediately the big controversy on Molokai…wind power. They don’t want it, or more precisely, they don’t want it on historic pieces of land.  Totally sympathetic to the need to preserve history, I also saw immediately that it’s very windy there and that wind towers […]

I know, I know, there’s nothing worse than somebody else’s vacation.  But…I DID take a lot of photos so, of course, YOU must suffer.  I plan to play them out in small increments so as not to be too boring.  We flew from Portland to Maui arriving just in time… to jump onto a 9 […]