Dancing girls, Ed Harris, Trespassing, and Sunsets

I have some friends back in Nashville who came to Honolulu a few weeks ago. They brought back magical pictures of them with their fiancees climbing to the top of an old WWII staircase that scales straight up the side of a mountain. It's called the Haiku Stairs and the American government used the ladder-system to run communication cables via a series of pulleys and towers along the top of the ridge. As I imagine beaches will become commonplace for me over the next 2 weeks, I thought this a great opportunity to explore inland and to break a few laws. The adventure was fattening, despite never making to our goal...

...Pulling into beautiful Honolulu at about 11am...


...We scaled this fence only to lead us through a magnificant bamboo jungle filled with mosquitos, mud and more fences. Sign reads 'Haiku stairs closed...no trespassing...violators will be prosecuted'...Bullocks...


...Bamboo jungle...


...2 mile road leading (hopefully) to the Haiku stairs. The whole time I'm in communication with my friends from the states about where the hell we're going. They followed along with us via yahoo maps...


...As close as we got to the Haiku stairs before getting caught by a Government official in the form of a ridiculously in-shape 50 year-old Ed Harris lookalike riding a dirt bike...He's 'posted' out there in a lawn chair every day to catch people trying to climb the condemned stairway...


...We made friends and he showed us a better way to get in next time without getting caught...I love the US Government...Go Obama...


...Diamond Head crater and the beach pre-luau...


...Musical Maui sunsets...


...Hula dancers at the luau...



...One of the guys in the band joining in with the dancers...


I performed tonight. It was good, but I personally didn't care much considering my beautiful surroundings...

...on to Maui...