The $50 Hawaiian roadtrip.

by DIEGO L Olguin (Mexico)

A leap into the unknown USA

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Ok here we go, First i was in my house. Lonely, depressed because of my ex girlfriend, my life just had no sense in that moment, i didn´t know if i have to work or not. Study or not; or what the hell, so i took my father gift that was an airplane ticket to anywhere. but he was not giving me more money or something else, but i had $50 dollars so i took a plane to Honolulu that night before christmass and then when i get there at first i creid when i saw the sea on the plane, my first mission was where to sleep that night so i walk along the citu of honolulu in the hotels in the beaches in the streets and i was like knowing the place for any emergency and also like tripping around looking what o do or some like really turist places to know, i took a photo withduke paoa kahanamoku statue and also i start planning sleeping on the beach until one man told me that homeless people hurt you in the night or steel your things so i get scared and go to a park very hide because also for the police mans i make me a little bug with me and my things inside the sleeping beside a tree and at 4 am the water sprinklers of the park start making me wet, so i start my day very early, i start walking making time because i had to go to the camping site i found on the internet for just 9 dollars 3 nights so i walked to the beach prepared to make some yoga sessions until one lady talked to me and invited me to make a meditation and a yoga class together so i join to her group andhave the best feeling of my life receiving the sun in hawaii i said thank you and with a lot of greatefullnness i start my trip to the muntain so i bought some food for surviving the days until new years eve and go to the mountain, i spend 3 days in the camping site alone because of the dates and also was raining every day i think there was like a real bad time in that moment because hawaii was a place of rain tornados and all of that, it was very difficult to do everything with that climate but was amazing i didnt eat too much because of the money. but all three days i go to a lot of parts i went to hanauma bay in the south of honolulu, i went to climb the biggest old volcano nu´uanu pali, i climb inside the mountain and found a hippie friend tht was living in the mountain and show me thetalles look out of the mountain. the last day i spend on the camping site that was 31 of december i went to sleep and spend new years eve in the beach, i mean what best part of a trip doesnt has a beach on it, i arrive before a lot of difficult to lanikai beach, set my camoing tent and spend all day there, reading drawing, learning, knowing people and taking photos, in the night when everyone goeas, i spend the night watching the stars and the space that in that part of the world i think is one of the most beautiful partas of the sky i had ever seen, i slept until it was new year, i was amazed of what can a person do with only $50 dlls, you doeasnt need nothing to be happy, only you... i learn that in that trip, then in the morning hawai surprised me with a rainbow, at last but not at least before going to the airport again i spend my last 1 dollar to go to the other part of the island to take aphoto with "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole´s statue. hahaha i lost my plane but i had a photo with this guy, i had the best trip ever and i want to continue creating experiences i mean like, all my life.