{"id":704,"date":"2013-05-25T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T07:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/?p=704"},"modified":"2013-05-25T02:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T09:00:58","slug":"random-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Random Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You always get unexpected surprises when you travel, good, bad and the best kind: places that weren&#8217;t on your list that ended up being highlights.\u00a0 We saw &#8220;historic banyan trees&#8221; just off the Hilo Bayfront and had to go see. That led us to Liliuokalani Gardens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LiliuokalaniGardens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-675\" alt=\"LiliuokalaniGardens\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LiliuokalaniGardens.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LiliuokalaniGardens.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LiliuokalaniGardens-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LiliuokalaniGardens-460x300.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TooTallTree.jpg\"><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-705\" alt=\"TooTallTree\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TooTallTree.jpg\" width=\"563\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TooTallTree.jpg 563w, https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TooTallTree-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-706\" alt=\"TrippyTree\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TrippyTree.jpg\" width=\"563\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TrippyTree.jpg 563w, https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TrippyTree-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got other surprises.\u00a0 Top of the list in Hilo was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Restaurant_Review-g60583-d2054332-Reviews-Wilson_s_by_the_Bay-Hilo_Island_of_Hawaii_Hawaii.html\">Wilson&#8217;s by the Bay<\/a>, famous for their shave ice.\u00a0 Puna and I had our hearts set on a Rainbow Mac (rainbow shave ice in assorted flavors over macadamia nut ice cream).\u00a0 The last raving review of them was mid-April this year, so we spent a while trying to find it when it seemed not to be there.\u00a0 But it was, in fact, gone.\u00a0 I asked a neighbor what happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just gone.\u00a0 One day just gone. You know how it is; when lease is up, if you&#8217;re a success, they want more rent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other surprise for the day was Pe&#8217;e Pe&#8217;e Falls, which you can&#8217;t get to anymore.\u00a0 So we went on to the next falls.\u00a0 Which you couldn&#8217;t get to, either.\u00a0 But it was OK.\u00a0 Akaka Falls made up for it.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/?p=652\" target=\"_blank\">Cyns pics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But since you made it all the way here waiting for more pics, here&#8217;s one from Puna.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t expect powder blue waves under grey skies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RedRoadBreaker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-682\" alt=\"RedRoadBreaker\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RedRoadBreaker-1024x799.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RedRoadBreaker-1024x799.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RedRoadBreaker-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RedRoadBreaker-384x300.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You always get unexpected surprises when you travel, good, bad and the best kind: places that weren&#8217;t on your list that ended up being highlights.\u00a0 We saw &#8220;historic banyan trees&#8221; just off the Hilo Bayfront and had to go see. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/?p=704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,2,13,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremymccaleb.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}