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Fall and Winter season 2017-2018 at Happy Trails and beyond

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 Great Thanksgiving with friends at our place. We headed to Kona in Hawaii.  Great trip with hiking, snorkeling and sight seeing. View from our window.  We stayed at the Royal Kona Hotel.  Beautiful views and in the center of town.  Could walk to the beach and to town for dinner.  Got there on the 14th of Dec. and of course had a couple of relaxing Rum Punches and walked into town for dinner. The next morning, we headed to hike down to Captain Cook's Monument.  Only 3 miles down and then of course 3 miles back up (1500 ft. incline)  At the bottom,  we snorkeled in the small bay there. Clear water with lots of fish Another fish Captain Cook's monument Small cove by monument Did great, but on the hike back up, I really got sick.  It took an hour to go down, but 4 to come back up since I had to lay down every 50 or 100 ft.   I guess with the travel, the drinks the night before, and the snorkeling in cold water, it just didn't sit well.   We