Day 4: Hawai'i, We Hardly Knew Ye

One of my more frequent sayings is that you can't unsee things. I usually use it in the context of the dark side of the internet, and how there are a lot of things I just don't watch because I don't want to deal with how they might change me.

But you can be changed by experiences, too. And I think I might have been changed a little the minute my feet touched the water on Oct. 11. Not at all in a bad way. It feels a little like a weight has been lifted, maybe? It feels a little like the island has embraced me and told me things are going to be okay. Like I'm leaving a little piece of myself here in its care for me to pick up at a later date. Or who knows: I may find out I don't actually need it and not even want it back by that point.

I really wanted to get a run in today, seeing as it's our last day here. I ran out toward Diamond Head, thinking I'd just end up doing an out and back. But I decided instead to just bite the bullet and do the full 9k loop. It was nice. Humid, of course, and not enough water. But I can handle 9k in this heat very easily, especially at the pace I was going: not trying to break any records, not trying to get lost, slow and steady. Another day and things would be a little faster and easier, I am sure. But I got a run in today and that's what counts.

Not sure what the first day on the ship is going to be like, or even what I'm going to have to post. But I will probably end up dumping some extra photos from Hawai'i a little later on tonight.