Fear. Last year was a tough one. Everything I thought, loved, and believed in changed in an instant and after those moments I would never be the same. What followed was a journey that I can be grateful for now.

The night began with an evening drop off at the Lihue, Kauai airport after a wonderfully eventful day. Wow. I was on a high just arriving at the airport thanks to some great energy from a new friend. Everything was seamless on Hawaiian Airlines to Honolulu at 10:47 PM and arrived 11:30 PM. I then had to haul myself over to the China Airlines terminal around midnight to board with hundreds of others for a 1:15 AM flight! Cray cray!