I had been leeching off the internet for a while leading up to this trip, scouring for blogs and trip reports and pictures and wanting more! Whenever I'm going somewhere I always want a sneak preview of what it looks like (it must be related to my wanting to know how a movie ends before I go) but I thought I'd put something on the interwebs in return.
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Malolo Farm
I don't think I'm prone to wild eyed flights of fancy where I'm left googly eyed and tongue twisted, but that was the exact situation as the rental Camaro cleared the twisty driveway up to Malolo Farms - a PROTEA FARM - PROTEAS PEOPLE. I've been pretty unhinged about these beauties since first seeing them in the wild in South Africa, but I don't think anything could have prepared me to for the diversity and riotous color and texture I was about to take in. Luckily, Dan was there to wipe the drool off my chin.
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Last month Dan and I took off for a week on Kauai with basically no plans except to lounge, eat and drive around on the crappiest roads we could find (success!). We stayed in a little cottage rental on the south shore that kept us away from the resort-y areas.
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