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So if you live in Hawaii going to another island is like a vacation almost? Not something you just "do" for the weekend or whatever?
Yup, it's just like your Hawaiian vacation except our flight time is shorter and at least it's a bit less expensive to fly inter-island than it is to the mainland. We still have to rent a place to stay (or stay with family or friends), rent a car, eat out since we don't have anywhere to cook, etc.
The other thing is - every vacation we take to the mainland is the same airfare or higher that you pay for your Hawaiian vacation. We don't have any other option to get to the mainland other than to fly and pay the "going to the mainland" fares. So, no quick trips to the see the museums or national parks in the next state over, either.
We save up to go on vacation about every two or three years and most of the money is for plane fare.
I know they vary differently, was just an example with something that had some mileage and was cheap.
Maybe I was just expecting some kinda ferry service you pay a couple bucks and you're on another island in no time.
How did they do it in like the 20s, 50s, etc?
There was a sailing schooner, the Kileaua, I think it was called. Folks would take themselves, a bedroll, their livestock, some food, whatevers & etc., and take the schooner between islands. I think they would stay on deck, too.
There was a journal written around the turn of the century (1800/1900) by - was it Elizabeth Byrd? about a journey she took through Hawaii. She started out in Honolulu and took the steamer to Hilo and then went up to the volcano by horseback and then across the Hamakua coast by horseback and down into Waipio valley. I forget the name of the book but it had great descriptions.
>There was a journal written around the turn of the century (1800/1900) by - was it Elizabeth Byrd? about a journey she took through Hawaii. She started out in Honolulu and took the steamer to Hilo and then went up to the volcano by horseback and then across the Hamakua coast by horseback and down into Waipio valley. I forget the name of the book but it had great descriptions.[/quote]
Isabella L. Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, published in 1875.
Thanks, atp162! That's the one! I tried searching for it online as well as on my bookshelves and couldn't find it. I was spelling her name too wrong for the search engines to find. It's a really interesting book about traveling in Hawaii before they had airplanes, most of the roads, etc. Reading her bio, she was an amazing person, especially for a female of her social class at that time. She has a description of traveling on the inter-island schooner when she was in Hawaii.
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