Feb. 19, 2015---Road to Hana and beyond:

With the weather changing again, we decided to do The Road to Hana today.  Thought the high surf was going to come in earlier, but it didn't make it until the afternoon.  Anyway, we had to be out of our condo so the Menehunes could come in and clean our room.  So we took off pretty early for a change---about 8:45.  Figured we'd check the Costco gas station to gas up before heading out to Hana.  Today we were able to drive right up to the gas pump!  Gas was $2.82 there and about $3.12 elsewhere.  We gassed up on the way back, too, and with those prices it only took us $20 for our whole trip. 
I took this picture of the West mountains from near Costco --- the mountains almost look snow capped.

 First stop along the Hana Highway was the little farmstand to get some banana bread.  I thought this was the place everyone raves about, but I think we came across the real one later on.  Stopped there, too, but it was so slow and people were cutting in everywhere, so we just left.  Anyway---I was also able to get a couple apple bananas here, a loaf of banana bread (which turned out to not even be as good as mine), and some candied coconut.  We had never had candied coconut before and it was a big hit!  Love that stuff!  (Tried to find some in a store to bring home to the "kids", but couldn't find any.)