Coming from Park City, Utah, and living close by some of the most fabulously picturesque National Parks spoils us a great deal, yet, all Parks are far from being created equal...
Hawaii’s Big Island is famous for its lava fields and huge volcanoes, so it’s only fitting that the Island hosts the Hawaii Volcano National Park. In order to motivate my wife to embrace the more than 4 hour round-trip drive required to see that site and visit a few of its features, I had showed her a fiery video overflowing with reddish molten lava.
I don’t know when that film was shot, but when we got to the Park, there was no more glow, no spaying furnace or little devils forking sinners into the flaming abyss. Needless to say that my spouse was sorely disappointed and didn’t shy away from letting me know.
In truth, if you ever get there during a non-active period like just now, expect for a large, dormant crater, a few minor ones and some petroglyphs, we didn’t see or experience anything exciting. We got taking in by the hype, like millions of tourist are every day, all over the world.
This, I think might be a valid way of finding solace.
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