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Hello, and we are in Kailu, Akona, Hawaii right now pretty exciting

We're outside of Kona right now. That's something I did not know. I'm a room. I technically technically what Pouwako or Pouwako something like that

Something like that. But the thing is I always thought Kona was the island shows how engure I am

Yeah, the island is actually called it's not called a big island that official name is Hawaii

Hawaii yep, and then everyone calls it the big island because if you say I'm on Hawaii

They just think you know Maui or Kauai or something

Yeah, yeah, and then every Hawaiian island has a Kailua town

Mm-hmm, and that's where I think the post offices. It's basically it's kind of like a capital

Yeah, and that's Kailua Kona

So that's where the Ironman starts and obviously they go way outside of it

Learn something new every day. Yeah, we're somewhere on the island where Frodo lost the ring somewhere

It's like black rock here. I wonder sometimes right yesterday. Yeah yesterday. We rode

She's we rode the 70.3 course here. So the latter half or the northern half perhaps is a better state like the north

A northern half of the bike like for Ironman. It shares the same course. Yeah, and the harder part. It's bleak

It's super bleak. Yeah, Kona is like what it has every

Every climate yeah, different climate zones or something like that

It's a gigantic island and you can see them when you're riding you look like up the mountain when you're on the coast

And you can see oh it's really green right there and then after that you get up into the clouds

And there's like in the rare moans that you can see above that. It's just super dense vegetation trees

If you have a chance to drive from the Kona side over to the helo side

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