Little Blue

Levi’s mother and step father purchased a new truck to keep in Hawaii and also shipped over their S-10 pickup truck as an alternate means of wheels. Not only does Little Blue still have Alaskan plates, but it's still equipped with studded snow tires! I can’t tell you how many people stopped us wondering if we knew we had “rocks in our tires”. It was pretty entertaining!

The truck may be old and rusted, but it is sure a beast! We 4-wheeled back into some pretty crazy spots and I honestly didn’t think that we were going to make it at times. We were given some paint and told to decorate the truck, so we drew a beautiful Hawaiian flower on the hood. The best part to driving around this beater was that everyone assumed we were locals. We didn’t have a fancy rental car like all of the tourists and we got special treatment because of it. People were always friendly towards us and we were even given the local price for pizza at the worlds best pizza spot!

After painting the flower (just a few days before we left) everything seemed to go downhill. We decided to drive to the Hilo side of the island for a tropical hike and the truck decided to give out on us. We broke down in the absolute middle of nowhere...highway 11, mile marker 42. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that location because we had to wait for three whole hours to be rescued. But we made the best of the situation and had a nice little family picnic under a shady tree! Turns out the tranie have given out, but the guys had a new one installed and the truck back and running by the next day!

Little blue gave us the freedom to roam the island, meet some wonderful people, get to some secluded (and somewhat impossible spots), gave us “local” discounts, and only faulted on us once. I’d say this little truck deserves some wonderful recognition!