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ALOHA from across the seai An old Chinese philosopher once
said "A picture is worth 10,000 words" so in this, our annual
letter, we lean toward the artistic (?) rather than the literary}

This past year we have been busy and happy, the highlight
of thé year being a few weeks spent on the island of Maul during
the summer, .Méui No Ke Oe, which means "none better tran Meni"
is the praise we now Sing of the Valley Isle. Most of our time
was spent at Olinda, 4,000 feet up the sloves of Haleakala
absorbing lots of good, cold, clear mountain air and resting.
Maui should really be termed the friendly isle for we had at
our disposal our friends' cars, mountain home and beach home.
While in Kahului and Weilukw we enjoyed Japanese -sukiyakl
dinners, Chinese chop suey and the Hawaiian luau. The ¢ Llimax
of our trip came when we drove sixty miles over an excellent
paved road to the summit of Mt. Haleakala, 10,000 feet. From
the rest house at the top one can look five miles across the
world's largest extinct volcano, This crater nas a circumference
at the summit of 21 miles and is 3,000 feet deep, It is well
named Haleakala (House of the Sun) because sunrise and sunset
seen from its rim are among the grandest views in Hawaii. From
the summit you can: hike or go on horseback into the fiLooret
the pit and explore volcanic formations such as the bubble caves,
pottomless pit, cinder cone hills, and sec the rare silversword
plant. From this mountain, which in the winter is covered with

 

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