LOST

Hi everybody! Thanks for the encouragement and support as we continue on our journey of hiking the Appalachian Trail. This is post #9. Brother Paul and I are moving along and soon will be in New Jersey! At this time am about half way to Maine and on target to get home in the not too distant future!

Half the time I don't know where I am, and the other half is spent searching for temporarily misplaced or gone forever items. Those facts made the title of this post inevitable!

Lost is one of my all time favorite words. It is associated with feelings and moments of excitement, anxiety, joy, relief. Hey it's awesome to find your electronic car keys a mile from home along the roadside! Wish could say the same for watches, wedding rings, tent poles, and countless other stuff that has somehow disappeared.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail is quite similar to being a character on Lost the TV show. Can really identify with them as they did not what was going on most all of the time and often walked around from one point of the island to another without getting anywhere. Most days out here I have no idea where going and we also go in circles. It is easy to get off trail and end up where started a hour earlier. When the weather was cold could blame the snow for missing the white blazes but now guess have to look at whom was in the lead when get off track. Will need to get the eyes checked when return home and in the meantime stay in the rear!

The losties had to deal with time travel and space issues. Although we aren't breaking any natural laws at times there is so much variation you could almost picture yourself in a different era. One night may be a campsite seemingly in the middle of nowhere and the next by a railroad track at freight train central crossroads USA. You could hear those whistles blowing all night long for sure. The fab lost characters developed special skills as the series went on. Although we are not able to save the universe as they did we are getting pretty darn good at tick removal, duck calling, and stream fording.

Lost was filmed mostly on the windward side and the north shore of O`ahu. Our home is near Kualoa (brother John was the first director at Kualoa regional park years ago) where most of the windward shooting took place.

Mokuleia was often the scene for shooting on the north shore and is where Ho`opono has its annual camp.

Special places and stupendous scenery all around both locations. The Appalachian Trail also has much beauty. At times the vista views go on for ever. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes I think that this journey may end in similar fashion to how the TV show did with all of the people have met along the way gathering in one spot. Instead of going up to bright light in the sky though we all board a plane heading to that slice of heaven on earth known as Ahuimanu valley. Hallelujah! Gonna change the homestead into a hostel and charge fellow travelers exorbitant resort rates!