Well, everything is eventually coming up to its end. So was our unforgettable ‘Hawaii tour’, - we already got back home, and now it is stored in my not so reliable memory. Luckily, there’s a more solid back-up to it available, - on an external hard drive (which in its turn was immediately copied for further back-up 
), in a digital form, easily retrievable, in vivid colors, representing pretty much of everything that was seen during this terrific trip.
It was my very first voyage over half the Pacific, down to this ‘American Paradise’. A quick instance of ‘listening to feelings’ prompts me to confess, and with certainty: ‘I got a crush on Hawaii’ You surely can’t help but fall in love with the place.
It is not only Hawaiian ‘eternal summer, sandy beaches and turquoise waters’, - those ’standard prerequisite essentials’ defining a Paradise for us, habitual dwellers on the 50th parallel to the North of Equator, - that make Hawaii so appealing. There is quite a bit more other things about it: remote location, people, history, and the nature that create the islands’ uniqueness.
As you learn about Hawaii from some printed materials before going over there, it may seem like you are going to travel virtually to the ‘edge of the world’, or, rather, to the ‘middle of nowhere’.
It is indeed a long way, - all across the waters of Pacific, but of course, it is not the longest one in the entire universe of modern air travel that is going on all over the globe today. However, it is a trip to a place which is recognized as the most remote location off any continent’s shore. North America’s is the closest one, a great circle distance between Los Angeles and Honolulu, for example, is ‘just’ over 41oo km. I’ve checked the distance for our YVR-HNL flight on the Great Circle Mapper , and it showed 4354 km for this leg.
It is amazing, that there’s a very special meaning hiding behind the catchy ‘edge of the world‘ metaphor’, however.
That is the edge where the land not only ‘ends‘, but where it ‘begins‘. Here you can probably see the newest land mass in the whole world. Watching the process, and seeing its (yet ‘intermediate’) results was one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever experienced in my life.
So, that was ‘Impression number One’..
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