so i'm like a monkey stand right now
it's day four in maui and it's uh 6 45 a.m which means i slept through all my
alarms to go see the Haleakala volcano at sunrise, which means i'm gonna have to go
do that tomorrow and today i'm just gonna switch things up
go to the road to hana which is supposed to be one of the most
beautiful things in all of Maui
to all my friends that are concerned about me driving a pickup (truck)
no i'm not banging my cousin yet
I'm at the Keanae lookout point
okay can't stop. Gotta move on, there's a lot to see
So what you just saw back there is sort of a blowhole created
by volcanic rock these things are pretty common
in pretty much every island in hawaii and uh this place is called
Waianapanapa State park. I think i'm the only person i've seen so far in this
park which is uh nice i guess. More recently
local set up checkpoints to stop travelers from.. or tourists from coming
here. There didn't seem to be any today so that's good
but i'm still trying to respect what the locals were trying to do
there's not a lot of good like medical resources on the eastern side of maui
and they're trying to protect their vulnerable population and i completely
understand that which is why i came out with food and
water and everything else i'm gonna need and i'm gonna try to not to talk to
anyone throughout the whole day
okay guys i'm on red sand beach on the town of
Hana which is really hard to get to. The place i'm standing right now actually
is some wet lava rock which is super slippery, so i'm not gonna
stay here for too long because i don't want to get my shoes drenched again
before the volcano hike
That did not work. Shoes definitely got drenched
It's 3 pm right now and i think i'm on my last stop for the day on the road to Hana
This is actually past Hana. I think i've driven only around
60 miles or 100 kilometers but that whole road is so
winding, for the most part you can't go more than 10 or 20 miles per hour so
this took three and a half hours of driving
to get here. Where i'm at right now is technically inside Haleakala national
park. As you can see the trails are a lot better marked here and this one's meant
more for tourists but it's got some nice views. It's the pools of Ohe'o behind me
right now and there's like another trail that i think i'm gonna go on in a second
so i was driving back home and i just found this trail on the side of the road
this is ridiculous
what a way to end the day
it's 4 30 a.m about to head to the volcano summit
it's gonna be super cold out there so i need to take all my winter clothes with
me because the elevation is around 10 000
feet or three kilometers
i am at the su mmit
this is f***ing awesome. It's pretty cold but not as bad as i
expected it to be. I'm gonna drive up to a different spot now
oh my eyes are getting watery
it's not because i'm
emotional but it's the wind but this view is probably one of the
more incredible things i've seen Really makes me thankful to be alive
This brings me to why i couldn't make it why i couldn't wake up
yesterday. So for those of you who watched the last video
i almost drowned like one and a half days ago
in the evening when i was surfing
and i was in shock At first i was in denial but then i
couldn't sleep that's why i couldn't wake up at 3am
and then i started thinking about death for the last day or so and something
i've realized is that if i were to die right now
it would really suck for my friends and my family
and i do want to live but i don't think i would die
with a lot of regrets
and i think it's entirely because for the last three years or so
i've been living with the intention of making the most of every moment and it
started right after my trip to indonesia with my
mom if you guys have been following this channel for a couple of years
but i met a guy at a hostel on new year's day 2018.
and he told me the story about his dad who passed away at a young age
uh his dad didn't do what he wanted to do his whole life because he was saving
it for when he gets old and he never got to get old
But that story changed my life. That story sort of made me realize that
i was his dad. My life was heading in that direction. I was putting off
traveling extensively, doing all the things i love just for
a safer future And i don't want to say that planning
for the future is not important but it's also important to live for now
To live like there might not be a tomorrow
i hope this was a useful message to whoever's watching
friends, family, strangers..
maybe myself 20 years down the line if i need a reminder
but yeah. It's good to live for the present
it's not always happy times and it's a right now so there's loneliness
and depression but in general in life, i'm content with myself
and i don't think that was something i was able to say a couple of years ago
All right that's enough for the emotional talk
it's 6 30 a.m and i'm back home again it's crazy how many cats there always
are in this driveway About to go to this place called Hookipa
beach to try to find some turtles now
so this is a sp ot where i've been surfing two of the last three evenings
and it looks a lot less crowded in the evenings or in
the mornings than it does in the evenings
i realized yesterday that there are a lot of turtles here all the time so i
figured i'd just come here and try to get some shots of them
it's crazy how clumsy these things look
on the land but in the water they move so much
faster than i ever will if you've watched the last video you
remember when i was chilling on my surfboard and this one popped up and hit
my foot and before i could even look underwater
properly to see what's going on it was like gone three feet away
all right it's been real in Maui. If you like this video don't forget to like it,
comment, subscribe, the usual stuff And now i'm off to the next hawaiian
island
Kauai
Right here is the coolest hike I have done in Hawaii so far
i'm not sure how anything else could beat views like this