Brian Ward

  • Made it home! 🎉

  • Last leg of the trip home.

  • One of the first stops on our trip was to Opaeka’a Falls.

  • We’re 37,000 feet up in the air, but these clouds are way higher than us! ☁️

  • Kissed Maui a quick hello and goodbye on our way back home from Kaua’i. Glad they have free Wi-Fi and a USB charging port on this airplane. I was still running off the last bit of power I saved up from before the hurricane!

  • But at least we survived. I kinda want to have t-shirts printed up for our group that say: Qapla’ at Kapa’a! 🤪

  • I think my one true regret on this trip is that we weren’t able to hit up Kenji Burger one more time! 🤤🍔

  • It’s about 3:30am and my CPAP battery has finally run out of power. The entire island of Kaua’i remains in a near total blackout. It’s hot and humid. Comms are spotty, and my flight is still 7 hours away. Aside from the hurricane, it’s been a great trip, but I’m more than ready to come home now.

  • Update on Hurricane Lowell

    We got through Hurricane Lowell safely. Power remains out. 80% of the island is without power. Communication is spotty. Weather is breezy, but we have beautiful blue skies again! I am on a flight to Maui in the late morning, and Kayla’s got a flight to Oahu before me, and from those places we will catch our connections to Seattle. The hurricane was WILD. I have never witnessed the supreme power of nature in such a manner before. It was certainly something to behold. A very potent experience which was thoroughly seen, heard, and felt. And that was only a Category 2 — and not even the worst part of that: other parts of the island facing the hurricane got hit much harder than Kapa’a. Could go for another Kenji Burger! 🍔

  • We’re in the most intense part of the storm now. Power is out, batteries are charged up, and devices are in power conservation mode. Provisions are secure. It sure is windy here! 🌀

  • We’re on the 3rd floor of our resort on the east side of Kaua’i facing away from the hurricane, so hopefully it will be fine today! You can see some flash flooding in this video I recorded about an hour ago. I’ve got a ham radio and a shortwave with me in case comms go out, and we have provisions.

  • Hurricane Lowell’s path did shift closer to us on Kaua’i overnight. My understanding that it is a Category 3 storm as of right now. Fortunately we are on the far side of the island not facing the storm. It is currently very rainy and windy here and we expect today to be a day to hunker down inside.

  • It’s approved by Guy Fieri for whatever that’s worth!

  • Speaking of… can we bring this place back with us to Seattle? 🍔

  • We went to Kenji Burger in Kapa’a today and this little kitten stole the show for the duration of the meal. 🐾

  • Right in front of our resort! 🏝️

  • Hanalei’s remnants of another time.

  • Cattle Igret on a horse! 🐎

  • Ocean babies 🐟

  • We made our own leis!

  • She LOVES the Jeep. 😍

  • Made a friend!

  • Moku’ae’ae

  • We stopped here after drinks in Hanalei.

  • It’s hard to take a bad photo here!

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