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Subject:Re: more westy trip reports, please?
From:Mick Kalber
Date:Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:20:42 -1000

> on or about 3/15/02 9:25 AM, Ben McCafferty at ben@kbmc.net wrote:
>
> >> 1. My favorite stretch of highway --- mine is Beartooth Pass,
> >

OK... has to be the Hamakua Coast on the eastern side of the Big Island of
Hawaii... huge gulches, waterfalls, ocean vistas... and a variety of
landscape that looks like llittle pieces of all fifty states... amazing!

> >>
> >> 1.a) My favorite road trip -----
Telluride,Durango,Silverton,Ouray-God's
> >> country

Definitely from Hilo up the Hamakua Coast, through Waimea (Kamuela) to South
Kohala and to any one of a number of white sand beaches on the west side of
the island.

> >> 2. My favorite campground ---- don't have one- they all rock

Kiholo Bay is my favorite to camp... Makalawena is my favorite to visit.
Access is a bit difficult... syncro is most helpful.  Also theWaipio Valley
near Honoka`a... very majestic and syncro is a must there.

> >> 3.  My favorite restaurant ---- ours is  Howard's Pub,Ocracoake Island,
> >> after a day on the beach the beer tastes great and the kids love their
pizza

well... Naung Mai Thai Kitchen in Hilo... best yellow vegetable curry in the
state.

Mick Kalber
89 Syncro Westy "Daddeo"
Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
62 Halaulani Place
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
808-935-5557
808-935-0066 (fax)
redhotlava@hawaii.rr.com
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