Wrangler Dani

Writer, editor, wife, adoptive mama and cowgirl living in beautiful Central Oregon.

Hiking the NaPali Coast – it really doesn’t get much better than this.

OK, I know, I’ve been going ON and ON about my vacation, but I’ll be honest, I’m kindof trying to relive it a little. Ever since we got back, life has been off-the-chain CRAY-ZAY (a little Shawn Stockman lingo for you) and now it’s almost Thanksgiving and Christmas is coming and oh-my-gosh I haven’t even made a fall soup yet or drank my new hot cocoa mix, because I’m never HOME to do so, and I might just spend the entire holiday season trapped in my car eating fast food and weeping to Michael Buble’s “I’ll be Home for Christmas” because I don’t remember the last time I sat on my couch and I want go home and make a wreath and roast a chicken but that’s kindof hard to do while sitting in traffic.

*breathe*

So you can see why I might want to relive vacation, just a titch.

We went for an 11-mile trek down the NaPali coast, and there was almost no one else out there, a near miracle in Hawaii. It was secluded and breath-taking and really, really steep. When on hikes, to distract myself from my aching thighs and burning calves, I like to pose with the local flora:

We'd gone about a quarter mile at this point, so I needed a snack.
Grass!
Trees!

Adam also likes to pose with the local scenery, but he doesn’t look as happy about it.

There was supposed to be a waterfall here. There wasn't a waterfall, which made Adam growly-faced.
We made it to the NaPali coast! We still have matching hats, yes.
Isn't it pretty?

Even though we had already made it to the coast, we had a lot further to go. A lot of hills were included in that…

They were STEEP.
Like, really.

But, after all that work, we got another amazing view.

Adam takes pictures of the view. I take pictures of Adam.
We were just WAAAAAAY back there! Go muscles!
I could have sat on this hazardous cliff forEVER.
We also did a little one-armed photo-taking yoga.

After our long and awesome hike, we got Shaved Ice on the way home, and a killer seafood dinner that night… and I am telling you WHAT, that is LIVING, none of this sitting-in-traffic-eating-stale-pretzels stuff.

*sigh*breathe*

*look at more pictures, dream of pineapples*