Personal Narrative: The Haiku Stairs

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The day could have possibly never ended since it had began the night before at approximately 11:00 p.m when my friends and I plotted the brilliant idea of embarking on our journey of hiking the Haiku Stairs or also known as Stairway to Heaven in Kaneohe Town.The expedition that the three of us embarked on could be appropriately expressed as the true testament of not allowing a genius plan being squandered by a few obstacles. The adventurous journey that was about to begin was the least of our struggles that were to take place that very night. My close friends, Noah Eddins, Noah Tillman, and I first came to the realization that we must trek to Kaneohe from Kailua Town before our adventurous hike could even have a chance to begin so we determined that we must find our own way to Kaneohe due to none of the city buses running that late into the night. We were all sitting around a table when at that very moment, an epiphany hit me and thought of the ingenious scheme of riding our bicycles and a skateboard to Kaneohe for that would be the only way of making our goal to climbing the ridge side to the top of the mountain possible. It took the three of us nearly two hours to travel and arrive at the bottom of the Haiku Stairs after taking multiple breaks due to the …show more content…
As we are to begin the hike at the time of 2:00 a.m, we all became aware that all of us alike were highly unprepared for the journey that was about to take place due to all of our

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