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The Sunday Traveler ~ Meditation on Molokai
Travel can be filled with energy and fast movement; it can also be peaceful and slow. The Sunday Traveler needed the peaceful and slow this last September, and chose the Hawaiian island of Molokai for that very reason. There was … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler ~ Snapshot Sunday on Molokai
Travel over the last year has been just enough to whet my appetite each time, to keep me going again and again. I bring it to my plate in little snacks to be savored then, and again later in memories … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler ~ Father Damien’s Churches on Molokai
Father Damien, now Saint Damien, built two churches on the island of Molokai before going to the peninsula of Kalaupapa to minister to the settlement of leprosy patients; he was a carpenter. The Sunday Traveler set out from her rented … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler ~ Kalaupapa, on the Island of Molokai
A tour of the settlement of Kalaupapa where people afflicted with leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) were isolated in the Hawaiian Islands. Sent to be quarantined, to live and die there. The Pacific Ocean on three sides and 1,600 foot cliffs make … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~ Saddle Up for Kalaupapa
The Sunday Traveler, crazy woman that she can be, chose the second most rigorous way to access the peninsula of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai, the mule tour. There are only three ways that a tourist can get into … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler ~ Kalaupapa Overlook and Overview
Looking down the side of the cliffs that isolate the peninsula of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai. The size of the cliffs seem dwarfed in photos. The Sunday Traveler stood on the top at the lookout, some 1600 feet … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler ~ Molokai, First Glimpses
A stop in the little main town of Kaunakakai to get supplies after getting my rental car at the airport, and cruise slowly east on the two lane road heading to the condo I had rented through Airbnb. The road … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler ~ Getting to Molokai
Molokai. 32 miles long, 10 miles wide. One of the smallest islands in Hawaii, and known as the Friendly Isle. It is. And it is the old Hawaii. This two lane road is on the east side of the island, … Continue reading