Mahalo

Just been told to leave by some apple lady. damn whore.

Leaving tomorrow.

With no slight exaggeration I can definitely say Hawai'i has changed my life. I'm incredibly happy, relaxed and healthy, plus I found out what Aloha really is and rather liked it!

The islands have been beautiful, truly. But nothing comes close to the friendships and opportunities I've come across, plus how much I've learnt about myself.

I'll be back, truly.

ALOHA!

Gnarly nights sleep

Big island.

day1: argued with some hippy christians, got bother by some meth heads [having not washed my clothes for over a month was looking a little dishevelled, which for some reason homeless people and smackheads think you must be their friend because you smell like them. no].

night1: found myself a spot between a wall and a bush in a sort of disused industrial estate. woke up to two big [possibly] mexican boys arguing about 2metres away from me. there was no reason why anyone would come back in the bushes so i totally shat myself, they kept shouting at each other and say 'how much you want?' in english. i just kept my head down and some how they didnt see me. when they left i packed all my shit up and legged it down abit till i got a sweet spot under a tree. got to sleep and woken up by an alarm going off on one of the warehouses, 5mins later the police come and are checking all the doors. bit more scary and back to sleep. woken up a 3rd time by sprinklers. didnt get too wet so back to sleep. then woken up by epic jets of water soaking me to the fucking bone. cest la bastard.

day2: washed my clothes [and spent the rest of the day sniffing them in delight] and met a dude from the marshall islands, total legend and told me about an exchange program is country run where you go live there and teach english. might hit it. then got some awesome 90's short shorts and even better sunglasses [which i lost within a day [3rd pair so far]]. crusied around some super nice beaches and met a girl from cornwall with fake boobs.

night2: slept on supreme beach. good night if my toe hadnt been trying to explode.

day3: hospital. injections. puss. new toe. then went to see food inc at the local theatre. super good doc about the food we eat. a major must watch. checked into a hostel, the lady behind the counter told me to have a shower after being rather reluctant to let me in.

future: crusing. resting my foot. who knows.

xx

Have a nice day Pa'ia

Well....
Leaving Pa'ia and the jungle tomorrow, its been my home for almost a month now and going to miss it like loosing a nose or a family member. Had so many amazing times over the past month with a fucking cool group of people. Our little gang of four will no longer be!
This weekend has been immense, had a true aloha friday with a really good party for a french girl who was leaving after 2yrs or something. Special highlight of 'I'm a vegan' after slapping my friend in the face with a hand full of ice cream [which came after the carrot cake fight]. Then bumped into matt and ashton and cruised to the beach for some naked hangover swimming and wrestling, trecked over to a beach where a volleyball / slip and slide party was going on. Took some rather lovely mushrooms, sat in trees watching volley ball [and the bark of the tree flow], sat in amazing fine white sand watching each others faces change colour and generally lounged. Ended up at a friends house, which we all marveled at, only to realise what massive hobos we had become, the sight of walls, cupboards [with things in] and clean floors just totally blew our minds. Spend the night chilling out and watching two friends trip balls on these blue shrooms they had [plus the biggest jar of bud Ive seen in my life].
Day after cruised to the birthing pools [some amazing warm rock pools by the sea surrounded by an almost lunar landscape of basalt and mud] and bumped into our yurt neighbours and their beautiful long blonde haired hippy kids. Got some supreme burn on my ass and thighs due to having a lack of clothes. Hung out, got high, swam, fought in the mud and played with the kids. Day ended with pizza and driving home whilst the sun set with 8 people in the car and everyone drumming on each other to beta band.
Sleep.
Big island awaits tomorrow. If all goes to plan i might even get on my flight.
Good night and good luck pa'ia.

Comando, comando, not that comando

Did the gnarliest hike a few days ago. Comando hike - the true test of a hippy vagrant. Starts of hiking up through a stream, through a load of baobab trees making a true jungle gym until we hit a waterfall, only way up is to brace yourself between two super slippy walls and climb 20+ft to a ledge, real sketchy - you'd bugger yourself good and proper if you fell. one of the austrian couch surfer girls got the shakes half way up, was sure she would fall. all good though and we entered a cave [at which point we realised lights would have been a super idea. a few more tricky waterfalls to climb and got to a big circular domed room which we swam across to climb another sketchy waterfall [this time in the dark]. eventually got out the cave and a quick walk up a hill got us to a set of 3 jumps - 25ft, 50ft and 30ft [with rock danger bonus]. i had no interest what so ever in the 50ft one, probably doesn't need mentioning but it was fucking massive! but after the shaky austrian did it i had little choice [if i was to maintain my heroic image], after shooting fuuuuuck and plummeting i hit the water reeaal hard and the force of the water ripped my top lip up and gave me some rather excellent pink arms. quick jog back and mission accomplished. sort of. comando must be done comando. yet the austrians didn't seem that eager to take their clothes off.

in other news,

sort of intentionally missed my flight to big island yesterday and am staying another week on Maui.

did a cool trip to Haleakala crater [biggest dormant in the world] fucking amazing sight - saw the sun set and rise way above the clouds over a lunar landscape. then hitched to Hana and climbed a coconut tree.

worked yesterday for $135 and again tomorrow. bonus. true immigrant work force. run by a Czech with 2 Chileans, a Brazilian, a Hungarian, a welsh boy [only one whose legal] and a wonderful English gentleman.

Helloha!

Giggling tramps

yesterday was odd. to the max!
started with 2 car chases with 14 pohleese cars in all razzing through paia. later found out that one of the cop cars totaled into a pt rental car, hopefully no one was hurt too bad.
then spent the day swimming and whittling, the cutest little girl came upto and asked what i was doing and showed her one of my finished sticks, she said it was awesome and i should sell them and trundeled off, looked up a few minutes later to find her lent right over me with a beaming smile and told me that i 'should really sell those, goodbye!' gave me a major grin for the rest of the day. then half hour later an old polynesian man tried giving me a dollar, i started giggling at him and he walked off bemused that i didn't want it. 2nd time Ive been mistaken for a homeless boy now. should probably wash my swim shorts, havent in 2months and they re getting slightly grubby.
off to hana in 5mins for the night and hopefully a cotch round the entire island next day.
its hot.

AWOHA!

Maharo!
last few days have been cool. lots of getting high whilst hitching and just high in general. lots of kindness too.
me and brooke headed into town with very few plans, ended up camping up the volcano with some stuff a really nice lady we hitched with lent us. what a king. amazing views at night with the sun setting, like watching it from a plane. ended up missing the boat trip which was fairly gash news but still had a roaring time! one the way down stopped at a cool little shop and bought the exact same type of journal i got in kathmandu a few yrs back, even had the same little note about how it was made. bonkers.
rest of the time has been some major chilling. /getting drunk
oh i tell a bloody lie. i totally did. for real. went surfing with kosharee [15yr old boy], yet only managed to get a sweet tan and bleeding nipples, beats standing up though. bullshit!
kosharee may have left us to go home today, yet we have a cool couch surfer at the mo and more arriving soon [there is no furniture let alone a couch in the yurt though so its more floor surfing one would assume]. so hopefully big party [mushroom based] and big hike [mushroom based] to follow i hope.
off to big island on the 18th then hopefully new york if i can get round to changing my flights or maui boat party.
Hurricane was supposed to hit today. rained abit this morning but pure sun at the mo. schmurricane.
Awoha

Best days of my life [so far]

Wow. so where to start.
Currently hanging with some really cool people, started with being picked up by a lituanian guy [ernest], getting wasted with him and bumping into a welsh boy called matt, later seeing him hitching naked in the rain. went to a really cool belly dancing night then morning after cruised over to matts yurt in the jungle, got a ride with this mad man and got massively high with him and argued about the twin towers. then spent a very confused time in the rain trying to find this yurt. got to the yurt and met matts 15yr old house mate called cosharee [actual name - spelt massively wrong].

I'd like to apologise to my family in advance if theyre reading this.....

matts girl and her mate came round [really hot hippy blonde girls] and we all hitched to the beach to pick up chocolates full of mushrooms from this old hippy dude. got beers and hitched back and ate our chocs. came up super fast and super strong. we had loads of arts and crafts stuff and these disco lights. off my tits in a huge yurt, in the jungle, in hawaii, with people ive just met and a 15yr old boy. we just painted each others bodies, i made a hat, danced madly and just generally tripped to shit. it all ended with us all tangled up on a mattress just feeling the most loved up ever. Absolutely insanely amazing! never tripped so high and so well in my life

in the morning we all headed down to this beautiful pool that has an ace waterfall, all got naked and went for a swim and to shower off. went to ernest's, made pancakes and off the this beach, you walk around this rock to this stunning beach - was just full of naked hippies [and way too many gay old men], we got some fortified brownies, had a few pipes and body surfed whilst the sun set. man i couldnt have been a happier boy. not a chance. it got dark and these amazing fire dancers got going, a huge drum pit with at least 20 people had been going all day and just sounded amazing with the dancers. was time to head and we piled 8 of us into the car and drove back through the night, i had the biggest grin on my face. truly amazing.

theres a really cool community of vagrants and woofers of 20 somethings just bumming around and hanging out, such a cool atmosphere and everyones just super loving to each other. think im going to stick it out here for a while longer than i thought as doubt im going to be in such a great situation again. plus have a spot in the yurt and something going on with a little blonde hippy.

wow