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Two Weeks in Hawai'i
My family and I just spent an incredible 11 days on Hawai'i's Big Island, climbing the sacred 13,790-foot mountain of Mauna Kea, hiking to rain-forest blanketed canyons with thousand-foot waterfalls, watching 2700-degree lava cascade off hundred-foot cliffs to explode in the surging surf, and swimming with tropical reef fish.
I was struck--even taken aback sometimes--by the generally calm, friendly and peaceful attitude of people on the island--shop-owners who stopped to talk, drivers who waited patiently without honking as a stranger from the mainland in a rental car kept slowing down to figure out directions, motel owners who volunteered lower rates on a second room for a teen-age son. I also noticed that there were plenty of young, and even some older hitch-hikers (even young women hitching alone), and plenty of drivers willing to offer them rides--a sure sign of a society where the level of mutual trust and even empathy is much greater than in the Continental US.
I know Hawai'i is not without its problems--indigenous Hawai'ians have been struggling to preserve their language and culture against an onslaught of tourism and tacky American consumer culture (there is an active independence/autonomy movement there), unemployment is soaring, a Republican governor is brutally slashing spending on education and is furloughing state workers without pay, the senior senator, Daniel Inouye, is ensnared in a scandal involving his apparent effort to win TARP funds for a local bank in which he is an investor, and the environment is under grave threat--but with all that, there is something about the place that made me feel that Hawai'i could teach the rest of us a lot about living, and getting along, better.
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