Leslie Lang | Talk Story Press

Local excursion #2 of our Summer of Exploration was a slow, winding drive down the four mile, scenic route that diverts from the highway and runs along the coast, more or less, between Pāpa‘ikou and Pepe‘ekeo.
This used to be the main road, I told my 5-year-old. This is the way people used to go to get to Hilo town a long time ago, I said, and we talked about how the road is smaller and much more winding, and how they must have driven much slower than we do now.
I …

For our first official “exploration” of the summer, my mom and I took my 5-year-old daughter into Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park the other day.
First we sat on the grass on our green and blue blanket, watched and talked about the birds (as they watched and talked about us) and ate crab sushi that we brought with us.
Then we looked around in the Volcano Art Center, especially at a kids’ juried art exhibit. That was pretty neat and we discussed that maybe my daughter will want to enter it next year.
We talked …