Stop Hoarding your Twenties

On day 2 We were woken up to this truck pulling into the campsite that had the bass booming and engine rumbling.  It was 4:30 in the morning and these two guys were blasting some sweet Hawaiian song, on repeat... They fixed something under their hood near the bathrooms and after 20 minutes (of the same song) drove back off into the night.  We could hear them for about 10 minutes because there was not another sound in the distance, not even the birds.
Sam here: It was still wet and rainy so we decided to pack up and make our way south to black sand beach, leaving the rest of volcano national park for later.  Standing in sand formed by a lava flow being pulverized by the ocean was pretty cool.



We continued along the coastline to the southern most point of the entire United States.


We pulled off to the side of the road and snapped some of the only pictures with the both of us in shot, special thanks to the amazing red camera and timer.  Anna was very disappointed that we didn't get photographic proof that we had reached the destination.  There was no sign to proclaim how far south we had made it, however the shear cliffs and clear water were impressive to see.  We followed the weaving paths of the 4WD tracks east, around the coast toward a small boat ramp and car park that marks the start of our green sand beach hike. Anna did very well for her first time driving off road.

I did well?!?!  No I did awesome thank you very much.  I didn't break the car or anything.  Well almost.  Until we made it to the road for the green sand beach.  Then I hit a boulder under the car, and so I decided it was imperative that we turn back.  The road to green sands beach was two miles of dry dry dry sand and heat along the water.  We made it all the way there and saw all of the tourists swimming in this clear beautiful wonderful gloriously cold awesome water, but we decided to turn around and go back.  It was too hot, and hiking back with sandy swamp ass would not be comfortable.  Sam completely hiked through both of his shoes by now, and his feet were SUPER sandy and gross.
This amazing beach came out of no where on the end of this long twisty road.  There were hot water showers because the pipes were exposed the whole way.  It was a great spot, and I wish we could have stayed there to swim and shower more, but it was time to move on if we were going to make it to a good sleeping spot in the middle of the island

Southern most point of the US!

GREEN SANDS BEACHHHHHHH

We drove down the rest of the coast and caught an awesome sun set.  We were just parked in the wrong spot, so there is a tree in most of the pictures.  Our drive continued in the dark for another hour or so, until we made it to the summit of Mauna Kea.  We slept in the visitors center parking lot, in the jeep, looking out at the night sky and into the stars. It was beautiful, and really freaking cold at 4000 feet.