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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
Drive your rental car on the dirt roads at both ends of the Island; where the rental car company tells you not to go
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A little story about this: Let me start by saying that it's considered bad luck in Hawaii to remove lava rock from any of the volcanoes. I totally ignored this and picked up a few pieces while hiking up on Haleakala. The next day, I was driving my rental on some dirt roads south of Wailea and sure enough, I get a flat. I put on the spare and brought the tire to a gas station later that day to be repaired. After working on it for a few minutes, the guy comes out and says, "There's nothing wrong with this tire but I did find out what caused the flat". He then shows me a tiny chunk of lava rock that was caught
inside the the plastic valve cap. This little rock pushed down the valve and let the air out of the tire. How this rock got in there and why only then did it decide to deflate the tire, I'll never know. The next day I returned my souvenirs to the volcano and have been a believer in that
lava rock = bad luck story ever since.
If you get a chance, cruise down to Wailea and check out the big resort hotels there...the Grand Wailea, the Kia Lani & the Four Seasons. They're quite spectacular and just walking around the grounds or stopping in one of the bars for a drink is a real treat. There's also a nice crescent-shaped beach just south of Wailea called "Big Beach". No development there...just a beach (at least that was the case last time I checked).