{"id":2524,"date":"2021-07-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syderoad.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:56:04","slug":"dreaming-about-haleakala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syderoad.com\/dreaming-about-haleakala\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years later, I’m still dreaming about the volcanic crater I saw 4 times on my first trip to Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2016, my partner and our friends visited the Haleakala crater four times in the span of 5 days<\/strong> during our short stay in Maui, Hawaii. We had originally only allocated Haleakala for half a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crazy thing is, five years later, I’m STILL thinking about the place. I feel like I’m pining after a grade-school unrequited love YEARS after moving countries and cutting off all social ties with said unrequited love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll see a sale banner with flights to Hawaii, and my mind immediately goes “oh, perhaps I can visit Haleakala again!” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see my friends tag Hawaii on their vacation photos and I immediately catch myself typing “Hey! Did you visit Haleakala Crater? You’ve GOT to visit that place!” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My partner’s friend was going to have a destination wedding in Maui (didn’t pan out thanks to COVID) and I immediately went “YES! Let’s BOOK EXTRA DAYS AND GO BACK TO HALEAKALA”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haleakala Crater, I can’t get you out of my head. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were to interview someone with rose-tinted glasses on, it would probably sound exactly like how I’d sing praises about Haleakala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s post style is slightly different (I needed a break from writing thorough itineraries and this was such a fun piece to write) Please enjoy my interview-style love story \/ travel story of how we visited Halekala four times in five days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interested in reading more travel stories? You may find these posts entertaining as well<\/h4>\n\n\n\n