Bring Your Money, but Leave the Bikes at Home
Growing up I never really had a huge desire to visit any of the Hawaiian Islands, for whatever reason I’m not sure. But as I traveled and read, read and traveled, the allure of the islands grew on me a bit. So when Jeannine had the opportunity to help the owner of Northwest Womens Surf Camps plan their 2009 Hawaiian surf retreat I figured I would keep my mouth shut and just go with the flow…I mean, how bad could it be right 
Welcome to Kauai…one of the most beautiful places in world and officially, from this day forward, one of the worst places to go for a bike ride.
Ok maybe that’s a bit harsh, for the folks at Kauai Cycle were very nice, although maybe a bit reluctant to befriend a stranger, a tourist, with as much enthusiasm as they about cycling. I mean, people don’t travel to the most northern Hawaiian island to go cycling. Furthermore, there just aren’t many roads, and the main HWY that circumnavigates 85% of the island is just that, a (two lane) highway that just about every car must use to travel to and fro. There is a beautiful bike path that runs right along the Pacific for a couple miles north of Kapaa, but otherwise if you want to ride you really need to be comfortable sharing the road with cars, trucks and a few tourists on mopeds.
We’ve only been here a couple days and I hope to get in some good rides, including the 4000 ft climb up to Waimea Canyon. But for now, after a couples days enjoying beautiful, albeit humid, weather, I have learned two things:
Not a good surfer? Too bad
Bikes (and bikers) just don’t seem to garner much respect
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