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Still, it’s a good idea to write to these agencies as soon as you’ve read this book and decided where you want to hike and camp on Hawaii. Ask them for their latest trail and camping maps, regulations, and permit-issuing procedures. Except for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your convenience in getting the information you need as soon as possible. (National parks almost always use the franking privilege of Federal agencies, so you’d be wasting a stamp.) Their addresses and telephone numbers are in “Getting Permits or Permission.”

Prepare yourself with general information, too. A generous source of a wide variety of useful information about Hawaii is the Hawaii Visitors Bureau at www.gohawaii.com; 2270 Kalakaua Avenue, Suite 801, Honolulu, HI 96815; info@hvcb.org; or 1-800-GOHAWAII (1-800-464-2924; U.S. and Canada only).

Spoken Hawaiian: An Incomplete and Unauthoritative Guide

What, only 12 letters?!

Nineteenth-century American missionaries used only 12 letters to create a written version of the spoken Hawaiian language. Superficially, that might make Hawaiian seem simple. But Hawaiian is a much more complex and subtle language than 12 letters can do justice to. However, we’re stuck with those 12 letters—the five English vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and seven of the consonants (h, k, l, m, n, p, w).