After some long flights and long layovers, I finally arrived on the Big Island of Hawaii – marking the completion of my round-the-world trip! Lucky for me, JT was able to hang out all week in Hilo!
We started out by returning Pele, which is the lava rock that I picked up to take with me around the world. Pele is the fire goddess of Hawaii who gives bad luck to those who take a piece of lava from the island without intention of returning it. Well, when I left, I made sure to promise her that I will return her after my trip in return for good luck. All through my trip, which has had its ups and downs, it has been coming out pretty even. Nothing suggests it was extraordinary nor a failure. JT insists it was because she didn’t know if I was serious in returning her. Now that I have returned her, my luck will change.
I left her on a much larger lava rock, where I had originally picked her up from, and swore that I would take her again if I returned in a few days and she was still there. I did indeed come back a few days later, only to see that she had left. JT picked up another lava rock, handed it to me and said that this is the next one I will be returning to the island.
Now is the time for my good luck, since Pele knows that I honored my promises to her before and I will honor her again with this one. I have this great feeling I will be spending my life trying desperately to return a rock to an island in the Pacific. All through my trip I have told people “I just need to get back to Hawaii” without really explaining to them that it was because I needed to return this piece of lava to where I had taken it from.
Hopefully, this marks the beginning to good luck for many more awesome adventures! We finished off the week with many laughs, lots of friends, lots and lots of kava, as well as many lazy yet memorable nights sitting out on the lanai.
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