Please consider our paperless check option when paying on the phone or over the Internet. Please help us reduce this cost by paying for your program with a check. Road Scholar is a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization that incurs over $5 million annually on credit card fees. You may also enroll online at To reserve space on a program, Road Scholar requires a deposit followed by final payment. None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly.Please call us toll free at (877) 426-8056, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. The board struck the shore in three-quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too but missed the connection myself. I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea, (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. It is astonishing: Mark Twain tried surfing! Flipping through Letters from Hawaii, I do not find it now. Turning a page, my eyes met a passage that I do not remember reading before. This bigger volume includes a much shorter version of his Hawaiian escapades at the end. Louis in a stagecoach, to the silver mining boomtown of Virginia City, Nevada, to San Francisco, and ultimately to Hawaii. Lately, I have been reading Roughing It, Twain’s chronicle of his travels west from St.
He only got close enough to see Diamond Head once from a steamer’s deck. Twain was 30 years old when he visited, and he dreamed for the rest of his life of returning.
The letters are marvelous reading for anyone with a love for Hawaii, which must be anyone who has ever been there. He is awestruck by an eruption of the volcano Kilauea. He documents sugar operations, native customs, earnest missionaries, natural landscapes, maritime tragedies, venerable lore, and local politics. Twain’s letters are an enthralling portrait of Hawaii in those days. Preparing to visit Hawaii for the first time a decade ago, I read Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii, a collection of the Sacramento Union writer’s dispatches in 1866 from what were then known as the Sandwich Islands.
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