Old Hawaii

Kekaha is a small town on the West coast of the island, I guess less than 1000 people live here. It appears as the Hawaii as it used to be, nothing is cool here, hospitality is everywhere. People are authentic here. It is peaceful, I like that.
The EAST Coast is more like Santa Cruz, coffee shops, young crowd etc. The northern shores have been conquered by tourism, all soul is squeezed out.
Cliff suggested we go hiking in the mountains, but not where everybody goes. Up there, the ancient island spirit is still strong. It has receded from the coasts where many people live up into the mountains. If anywhere, there you'd feel humble.
Of course, we could always take horses and be lazy, but that would take 8 hours and have to be done by night since it would be to hot for them during the day. After that long, your ass hurts like hell.