With the price of a rental car around $100 per day and the price of a hotel around $120 per day I decided to combine the two for the meager sum of $99 a day by renting a 1984 VW Westfalia camper van. The thing was a serious POS. …..but saved me significant cash over the next week. There was also no way anyone could tell I was a tourist because no one in their right mind would spend their vacation in Hawaii in that heap of crap. The thing took 5 full minutes to warm after sitting for any longer than an hour, it billowed hot air from it’s vents, and was battered inside and out. It actually had power windows…that raised and lowered at the same speed as the minute hand on a clock. That sucker could turn on a dime and did actually the trick as I was able to park and sleep literally right on the beach for free all week…….nice with the widows open and all.
Hit all the beaches on the eastern coast of Oahu, swam at the “Obama” beach called Kailua. I checked out a professional body boarding competition where the action was just as hot on the beach as it was in the water…..it looked like some of the women actually had their suits on backwards they were so small. Other natural wonders included a thing called the blow hole where with each wave, water was forced thru a small hole in the reef, blasting it skyward. The next amazing sight was a place called Hanauma Bay, personal favorite of everyone’s favorite baseball coach Schoolie. This semi circle beach was filled with the turquoise water of the Pacific and as you looked down the hill, it looked like something seen on the cover of Conde’ Nast Travel magazine. It was the prototypical Hawaiian beach. Take a second and try to imagine the nicest beach you can…….and you’ll be half way to imagining what this place was like.
All day long, every time you snapped the shutter on your camera, you took a photograph that was worthy of a post card.
Bought some souvenirs in Wal-Mart and called it a day.
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