Wrong! My size 15 feet are two big, fat liars! That is not what a vacation should look like at all. This is what a vacation should look like, from the perspective of your feet…
You see those two raw, bloody spots on top of my feet? I earned those. I earned them by wearing rented swim fins and swimming with sea turtles and octopi and reef fish. I did so much snorkeling that by the end of our trip, the top of my feet looked like raw sushi. Or is that a redundancy? It got so bad, I had to swim without fins the last day… but since size 15 feet are like fins anyway, no big deal. I could take a picture of my feet right now and show you that I still have scabs.
When your feet are not covered with swim fins, they should be wearing hiking boots, or tennis shoes… or a pair of these all-terrain adventure shoes…
Yes, I know they make me look like a dorky tourist. But I could climb over lava rocks or sharp coral, I could wade in jungle streams or tide pools. I could walk on sandy beaches or muddy trails. I could do it all in the same day without taking them off. And I did.
Your feet should get up early and go to bed late. They should take you on adventures and explore wherever you are in the world… Your feet should be leaving footprints on a beach before the sun even comes up… before anybody else is awake… because there is nothing more awesome than a lone set of footprints on a tide-washed shore…
Especially when you can still see your favorite bar in the distance.
Yes, our fancy beach resort had these nice chairs for sitting in and watching the sunset…
You know how long I spent sitting in one of those chairs? About five minutes. Just long enough to take the two pictures of my feet in the sand…
Take good care of your feet. They are your ticket to adventure.
Pouring My Art Out 
Not the prettiest feet I have seen lately but I will let that go. It sounds like those size 15 feet of yours served you well during your vacay. You should really be kissing them – if you can reach them.
My son has size 14 feet and are also in desperate of a pedi. 🙂
I take care of my feet to the extent that they carry me around… I don’t try to glam them up.
I don’t know why we don’t think about getting our feet into condition before we go on vacation. I always go away, put on some sandals that are either new or haven’t been worn in a year or so & then try to do some sightseeing by walking around! By the end of the first day, I’m hobbling instead of walking!
That is why I have this blog… so I can do all your thinking for you…
This is a great adenture, reading about your travels. I’ve never been to Hawaii and likely never will, so this is a treat for me. Bring it on!
I am bringing it
My feet are smaller than yours! And they are still a bit cold in the early spring. Man, Hawaii looks awesome, never been there myself. Can I go with you next time?
Just sign up for my travel adventure tour…
Snorkelling is amazing I loved it when I was in Trinidad and Tobago. Now a days I wouldn’t go in the water, to worried about the deadly jelly fish or any jelly fish stings
Sometimes you just have to tell fear to take a flying leap.
Ha! Then fun!
right
A vacation in Maui so wonderfully shared through photos and stories, has to end with a description and photo of the sores on your feet? Poor baby. I hope you recover soon, and can get back to “normal” life like the rest of us.
This isn’t the end… this is barely the beginning of the buildup… the prelude… the opening act… the prequel
True that! It is really important to take care of your feet. Especially, when on an adventure. It doesn’t matter how dorky your feet look comfortable, practical, durable shoes will be what makes your trip a winner.
And flip flops…
Maui is beautiful! I agree. Feet are made for being adventurous, for taking us on new journeys and exploring new surroundings. Not for laying around on the beach. That’s only fun for about an hour. Besides, I burn in about an hour anyway. I need to be moving around and constantly applying sunblock! Glad you had fun, sea turtles rock!
I managed to not even get a tan… yay sunblock… I guess…
That’s my kind of tan…or lack of.
tanning is overrated
Don’t these sores attract sharks? On the other hand, if they do, snorkeling could become much more interesting.
I was hoping to see a shark.
I think you can do a cage dive with sharks near Catalina islands, if you’re really interested (By “cage dive”, I mean that you’re inside the cage, and the sharks are outside)
It starts off that way at least… I saw Jaws…
I saw Jaws too, and I think it ends that way.
exactly
I used to go to St. Pete beach a lot and I would walk from about the Coral Reef Beach Resort past the Don CeSar down to Pass-a-Grille beach in the late afternoon. It was between 2 and 3 miles. You tanned the right side going down and the left side coming back. It beat just roasting in the sand or around the pool. Pass-a-Grille had such a nice cozy feel to it. With the internet now, it’s difficult to keep places like that from being overrun and over-developed.
The better a place is to go, the more people go there… and make it worse.
The “resort” used to be about a 5O room motel. Then they added a 6-story-or-so high rise facing the gulf and another poo. Still not too bad. Then they went to time-share. You could still get a room, but they up-scaled the crap out of them to the point they became unaffordable. It was really sad to see it happen. Like when your favorite small town gets its first traffic light and puts parking meters on the streets. Then they start wooing Walmart and a chicken processing plant and make a deal with the devil..
another poo???
Well, maybe it was just a Baby Ruth floater.
Better than the Hershey squirts.
Those foot sores look like stigmata…
ssshhhhh
Don’t blow my cover… I even cut my hair…
Hooray for feet!
They do come in handy… uh… feety?
Footy?
okay… sure… why not?
Footy is short for football… as in the sport that the rest of the world calls football and we silly yanks call soccer. Hooray for footy!
Boo for throwball!
I am still unimpressed by organized sports…
So, Calvinball is more your thing?
I don’t mind people playing games, I just think we should pay cops and teachers more than them.
Ah. Well, for societal impact, teachers and cops deserve to make more. But, we are entertainment driven at the moment… our dollars go where we see the most entertainment value, not the most knowledge or safety value… which is why politicians make a lot of money, because they are funny.
HA!
That’s all I get?
I was impressed… that was full caps with exclamation point. Plus, I had stuff to do.
Oh, stuff? Dang, sorry, I didn’t mean to intrude. At least it was only stuff and not a thing… I know how you like your things.
Things are good… stuff is just stuff.
That’s a good thing.
sure it is
simply beautiful. It is so not fair people actually get to live there.
and oh, sorry about your boo boo’s…
my feet are fine CAUSE THEY HAVEN’T BEEN IN MAUI SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN WITH OCEAN CREATURES!! 😉
Nature gives with one hand… or foot… and takes away with the other.
not me!
I think it would get old… after a year or so…
we already decided this, however I think I could endure the torture for a couple years. When my parents went for their 35th anniversary my dad came back and said he doesn’t think there was even a weatherman there. They recorded one forcast, for a beautiful day, and they just replay it daily.
Each part of the island has its own weather. But it goes from sunny to rainy a lot in one day in some parts.
Yeah, and maybe floods, but it is gone in an hour… at least that how it was on Oahu. Left our hotel one morning and had to wade thru knee deep water to get to the beach, but after our hour there, it was dry, not even puddles left. weird.
it is weird