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This blog has been quiet lately because I’m on vacation with my family on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Our condo has good internet connectivity, and I’ve used it a few times to keep up with email late at night, but mostly this has been a pretty relaxing week.

The least relaxing thing we’ve done so far was to hike across miles of barren lava flows to see this:

OK, it’s not the greatest picture in the world, but when you’re standing on the edge of a crack with 2000-degree lava inside, your mind may wander away from camera settings.  Or at least mine did. 

It’s a long hike, and not well marked, and the terrain is pretty nasty, and we ran out of water in the heat, and still — it was worth it to see how the Big Island is still growing every day.