august and i have been planning this hike for weeks.
weeks.
we had finally determined that it would happen today or never. we drove down to waimea and made our way up to the state lodge, parked, and found a trail waiting a couple football fields-worth down the road.
the weather was terrible. it thundered and lightninged and rained in ways i'd not previously known were possible on kauai. the path was slippery when wet, which was essentially the entire way. at the end, the path was less of a trail and more of a stream. and by stream, i mean a rushing, miniature river.
but it was incredible. i mean, totally unbelievable. we trekked around 6 miles and caught this overlook (above). if you peer closely, you can make out not clouds, but the ocean in the distance. as with almost all pictures, it doesn't serve justice to the space, to looking around and not being able to understand how, in all of this vast expanse, you are standing on the tiny tip, of an inconsequential blip of land, in the middle of a massively small body of water that takes up less than a drip in the whole entirety of this galaxy. i have peered toward endless horizons since being on kauai, only to be humiliated by the weight of a rising moon that means more to me, than i ever will to it. how small we are.
we saw exactly four people all day, two of whom recognized my twins had and had lived in rochester, mn for a number of years, and had likely been my opponents on a rival soccer team during our high school days. how very, very small we are.
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