Humble Apologies.
As kids cycling around the streets and dirt trails of the Makawao/Pukalani towns, we didn't get much chance to interact with the occasional tourists lost on their way up the mountain to Haleakala or very lost on the way to the Lahaina/Kaanapali or Kihei resort areas. However, those occasions when we were hanging out by the roadside and asked for directions to a distant city were our opportunity to redirect them to the road to Hana, which tends to be a 3 hour one way trip at best and can turn into a soggy nightmare of a journey if it happens to be raining on that side of the island, which occurs with almost daily frequency.

I immediately stopped that behavior and began to actively correct my friends' further attempts after my first personal drive to Hana, realizing just how much fun it could be when you intended to visit and how infuriatingly inconvenient it was otherwise.

Sorry about that.
( Felis Concolor, Tue 21 Feb 2012, 2:34, Reply)