Tarheels - Yes, Mama's Fish House was perhaps one of the BEST restaurants I have ever been to. Amazing. I am sooo upset that I ate so much that there was no room for dessert
Everything was fabulous. Ally - We hated the Road to Hana. HATED IT. We dubbed it the Road to Hell. I dont think I have ever LITERALLY feared for my life like I did on that road. I wasn't blown away by what we saw, either, a lot of it was driving through vegetation. Anyway, the lanes are extremely narrow, it almost feels like driving on a two-lane road that's about as wide as a one lane road back here. There were sooo many blind curves and hairpin curves, where I was so scared another car was going to come flying around the curve and hit us head-on. There were a lot of places where there is a sign that tells you to "yield to oncoming traffic" because the road becomes so narrow only one car can go through a certain section, but SO many cars (coming from the opposite way) just blew through the sign when they were supposed to yield to us coming through that section. We almost got sideswiped several times. THEN, it was extremely stressful because all the locals coming through would ride your tail and honk if you're doing the speed limit (15MPH), and there's hardly anywhere to pull over, so you gotta start worrying about where to pull over to let these morons through, so you cant concentrate on the scenery during those moments. Some of them would pass us, even though you're not supposed to. At one point, one guy passed (on the left) about 3 of us cars going the speed limit, it was nuts. After passing through Hana, we chose not to turn around and go back the same way we came, so we continued, and wound up on this unpaved narrow road that wound around the cliffs, in the pouring rain, for like 3 hours. I have never heard DH cuss that much in his life, and he is NOT a cusser. We were like, I wish someone had warned us it was like this. If I had known it was like that, I would have spent the day on the beach at our hotel. Then again, some people LOVE it, it just depends on your preferences. Also, if you easily get carsick, the trip is not for you.