Eve's bike trip pix

Here are a couple of pictures from Eve's camera from the bike trip. Also I put the rest of my pictures and her pictures on flickr.

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Bike Trip Pictures

We just made it back to Hilo after riding from Punalu'u Beach over Volcano. It took us six hours to ride the 30 miles (and 4000 feet) up the volcano but only one and a half rainy hours to ride the 30 miles back down to Hilo. Other than that the weather was nice for the whole trip and we didn't regret not bringing sleeping bags! Here are some pictuers from the trip:


Eve after the first 100 miles and climbing a hill.


My bike coming down to Punalu'u and the first campsite near Waimea.

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Bike Trip

It is day 3 of the trip and we are about 3/4 of the way around the island. Right now we are at the southern most restaurant in the US and tonight we are going to ride 10 more miles to Punalu'u to camp on the beach. From there it is about 60 miles back to Hilo with the biggest climb yet of 3900 feet over Volcano National Park.

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In Hilo!

I've been in Hilo for 5 days now! It still seems like I just got here. I flew in on Friday afternoon, Martin and Eve picked me up at the airport and we immediately jumped in the ocean! We walked to downtown Hilo that night and the next day they had a goodbye party for Martin who is leaving for grad school in the mainland in 2 weeks. Sunday we went to a black sand beach near Puna and then Martin and I went to the Mauna Kea observatory visitors center where he volunteers and I got to be a first time volunteer setting up telescopes. Yesterday Martin and I took a long hike around Hilo to Rainbow Falls then to Boiling Pots then to some caves that I forget the name of. Eve and I are still trying to figure out the logistics for our bike trip around the island including getting me a bike! I keep forgetting my camera so I haven't taken any pictures except this cell phone picture from the hike yesterday.

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Hawaii Tomorrow

I'm going to Hawaii tomorrow, I think it's going to take most of the day to get there since I have a layover in Honolulu before I get to Hilo. I'm excited to go from the second rainiest city in the US to the rainiest according to Martin. I just tried to look that up and it seems like it isn't accurate at all but it's good enough for me.

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