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The Adventures Of Bette Porter and Sissee Gardner Schmidt After Tina (Part 2, Chapter3)
The Adventures Of Bette Porter and Sissee Gardner Schmidt After Tina (Part 2, Chapter3)
PART TWO: MAUI
Chapter 3
Just as we began descending Haleakala, we noticed a group of people in yellow rain slickers and red helmets. They were gathered together around a van that had apparently driven them up with a trailer full of bicycles.
“Damn!” exclaimed Bette. “We should have done that. Looks like they’re going to coast down the mountain.”
“They’re going to freeze their asses off!”
Too bad though. It looked like fun but we had our own itinerary to follow.
We passed them by and found that going down that hill was much more fascinating than coming up in the dark. At first, vegetation was sparse with only the ruggedness of exposed lava and cinders all around us. We were in and out of the clouds with splashes of intermittent rain on the windshield plus tiny rainbows that came and went. With each turn, plants and trees increased.
We stopped at a designated lookout and got out of the jeep to check the scenery below. This was “up country” on the Haleakala slope, from the summit to the sea and we had a great view of most of it in front of us again with markers to explain what we were looking at. We could see the isthmus below, checker boarded with fields of light green sugarcane and the darker green pineapple fields. It was also Maui‘s vegetable patch where they grew lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage and their famous sweet Maui onions.
Bette took a lot of pictures. In fact, I got a kick out of her as she framed her subject thus and so, sometimes quickly; sometimes studiously slow. You would think she was a pro.
We went through grazing land where cowboys, ranchers and farmers lived. It laid claim to being an area that was unlike anything else in all of the Hawaiian Islands, where groves of fragrant eucalyptus trees protected rolling grassland and cattle had nothing to do but chew their bountiful cud all day .
Bette and I exchanged superlatives as we drove along. It was all so beautiful to see but there was more to it than just “seeing”. It influenced all of our senses.
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Sissee, another great adventure of Sissee and Bette. I don’t think I will ever do those kind of risky activity (i.e., harness & straps, cable, pulleys). I am guessing Bette and Sissee will have some heart to heart talk (and perhaps action) while taking a nap on a quiet beach and under a palm tree.
Bette’s Babe, Like Bette will tell Sissee, “Be patient…….”
Good morning Sissee! That zip line sounds like alot of fun. Had to laugh though at Sis being pushed off. Were you like Bette(brave) or Sissee(fearful)?
My daughter and I vacationed on Maui, and it truly is breathtaking. Seeing the sunrise from the summit of Haleakala is an unforgettable experience. Your adventure stories are very well-written, and thank you so very much for sharing them with us.
kbergin47, Good morning backatcha! I have been to Maui twice and neither time did I even know about the zip line. As I say up front in this story, the characters are fictitious, including Sissee and belong to my imagination. I researched Maui after I was there and found there was a lot that was missed. Would Sissee the writer have tried it? Yes, but just like Sissee the character, I would have been terrified. So you asked a good question and I am compelled to say I really wrote myself into the part this time or how I would have reacted to it.
BetterwithBette, Thank you for being a reader who comments. I am so glad you share my appreciation of Maui.