hu'vay'e

i guess thats how the locals phonetically pronounce hawaii.  you know, if you're ever looking to visit hawaii and you're looking for picture perfect beaches DONT go to the Big Island.  This island is like 95% lava rock beaches and for all you mainlanders stepping on lava rocks feels like stepping on broken shards of pottery.  Its all sharp yet extremely fragile so you could technically both cut your foot half off AND fall through the rock into a lava tube.  My town is situated underneath a live volcano...  we actually live on the side of the volcanic mountain.  If that thing were to ever blow up , we'd all be screwed.  Actually, there's a volcano blowing up right now for the first time in some decades.  Its like 1 1/2 hours from here....  

i know this is all pointless crap  but did you know Pompei was from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which is IN modern day Italy?   Yeah!  I think its Naples, this huge ass city is perched right on the side of the volcano that already kicked at least one other city's ass.  Just ask all the weird frozen ash people...

as for sandy beaches, go to Ka'uai......... its the shiznittlebamsnappy