One of my favorite places in the world is Hawai'i. It's beautiful and lush, the food is phenomenal once you get outside the tourist hot spots, and there's a sense of scale that you can't get on anything but an island in the middle of the Pacific.
My wife and I also nearly died on a scooter during one standout visit. We still chuckle about it.
But people tend to forget the colonial history of the islands, and they forget the damage those people and policies did to the island's ecosystem.
