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My arrival to Hilo.
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Hula dancing at dinner! That made me feel better about the rain.
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View from hotel property. My first look around in the light, and without rain!
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View from hotel property.
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Ooh! A mountain! It's snowcapped, though it sort of blends with the sky in my photos.
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Another attempt to photograph the mountain.
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Pretty plants.
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Mountain again.. this one is not so bad.
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View from the balcony of the hostel (morning 2).
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View from hostel. How muddy and rainy and yucky.
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First day of riding. This is the truck to carry our bags.
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Getting set up to ride. Note the flags.
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Doesn't everyone look excited to go out and ride on this gray, rainy day
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There's the bike I rode.
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We made it. There were no pictures during the ride, since it was on the highway and rained most of the time.
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Just started taking pictures around the property on our way to our final destination.
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Just another random pic.
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Green and lush, and muddy.
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More horses
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Our destination! The community is called Polestar.
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Lunch. All of the food was vegan and wheat-free.
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Apple bananas - so delicious! I am now ruined for bananas for life.
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Tent set-up
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Tent set-up
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One of the staff member's tents. Pretty hard-core.
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An avacado tree!
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Sorry it's blurry - just trying to grab a pic of our home of two days.
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These plants need water. Our service project on Day 2 will fix this problem!
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This was our composting toilet.
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Another blurry picture, but I was trying to capture the cinder in the ground.
