Traveling has been a passion of mine since I got my first passport at 6 months old (no joke!) I sat on my moms lap and made gaga sounds at the photographer. I started traveling alone at age 6 to visit my Aunt in Missouri every Summer. I haven't stopped since. Where I go, my camera follows. I love experiencing new places and capturing each one in my own way.
The tragedy in Japan is just devastating to watch and read about. My heart goes out to all the people living and visiting there! The earthquake caused quite a stir around the world, including West Maui where we spent our last day of vacation!
Our hotel evacuated around 1am and we fled in our rented Jeep to higher elevation. We listened to the radio, tried to nap and talked about the tsunami that was going to hit Hawaii and eventually the West Coast. We snuck back to our hotel around 6am when we felt it was safe enough. Whew what a way to end an amazing vacation!
Still haven’t heard how the rest of Maui fared but I hear we got hit worse than the other islands. We had just taken a snorkel trip out of Maalaea Harbor not even 24 hours ago and it was one of the areas with a lot of damage. See two of my photos from yesterday’s snorkel trip below.
We appreciate the concern and support by our friends and family on Facebook, Twitter, Email and text messages! Love you all! Our next adventure…find out if our planes are really flying out today or not!!!
Been so worried about you both! Hope you make it safely home!
Glad to hear you are ok 🙂 Hopefully you can still make your flight and you don’t experience any sort of delay.
Glad to see you are safe!
Beautiful photos to have of the “calm before the storm”. So glad you two are home safe!
I’m behind in my Reader, and just got to this for the second time. Looking at your pictures now well after the storm, when we really are starting to know how much devastation has happened in Japan, the ones you chose to post have a real eerie power about them. I really stopped and looked at them much more than I did when I first saw this post.