On Maui 2016 I mentioned we had a brush with death. Unfortunately it wasn't the only one. I don't think we were that close with this, but it was closer than it should have been.
Maui is made up of a couple mountains. Somehow there are roads around the outside of these mountains. On the east side it is the legendary Road to Hana. This is an amazing drive we did early in the trip. The drive is the destination. One thing though is a lot of the cliff side roads narrow to one lane. There are a ton of cars, and you wait your turn if there is oncoming traffic. As long as you are not in a hurry it works. This was a great day
On our last day we headed to the much less visited north west side. Not as scenic, but still scenic. It gave us something to do while we waited for our evening flight out. The one ways were less formal. After what seemed like a million of the we were on our way back. On the stretch of road it meant we were on the outside. In my infinite wisdom I looked at the road and thought- I bet two cars can fit. This didn't really affect the other person- they were next to the mountain.
It turns out there was not enough room for two cars. As we were going I felt a small portion of the road give under me. I stopped, and we both hoped out the drivers side. We were safe, but we only had 3 wheels on the ground. And we were blocking the only road. Not a great situation to be in. Our flight was later that evening. We were not going any where. I guess I could have gotten back in and tried to back up- but not something I wanted to do. I couldn't exactly call AAA.
Luckily a local showed up. I didn't ask him if anyone had done this before, but he wasn't exactly surprised. He was able to tow me off the edge, for the small price of everything I had on me, plus another $100 to be sent from home. A small price to pay for my stupidity.
Also- Will fell into the water and his phone never worked right again
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