My husband and I spent out first anniversary on Molokai - it wasn't that far of a trip since we live on the Big Island of Hawaii but we might as well have been going to a different world.

We couldn't fly straight through to the island, we had to first fly to Oahu and then take a small, 20 seater propeller plane to Molokai. The airport was teeny-tiny but the rent a cars were right there and we were out of there in our red convertible within 30 minutes. We had to drive about 20 minutes to the other side of the island to our condo and we realized that there was not one stoplight on the entire island! Only stop signs on small paved roads! I think the entire island population is 6,000 people so I guess the traffic is pretty manageable.

We reached our condominium early in the evening and got signed in quickly. The condo was on the side of golf course which was right on the ocean. The sunset was amazing so we sat on our lanai (porch), eating our takeout from the condo restaurant and watching it. That evening we fell asleep with the sound of the surf in our ears.

The next morning, we went to a grocery store and brought back our breakfast along with some food for our four night stay. We ate breakfast with our sliding-glass lanai door open and noticed a small green bird just outside the door watching us. We opened a bag of potato chips and threw the bird one. Within minutes we had at least 40 different birds on the lanai begging for food. They would grab the chips as quick as we could throw them out, the large birds flying off easily, and the smaller ones having to break off pieces or fly low until they could get out of the mele. The birds were grabbing and pecking and trying to intimidate each other but in the end they all got some.

After we finished eating and feeding our new 'pets' we decided to take a drive around the island. We found a beach about 5 miles down the road and decided to take a swim. We walked out on this long(maybe a couple of miles long) , white sand beach and discovered we were the only ones on it. There weren't even any footprints! We played in the surf and looked for shells and eventually realized we had been joined by one man about 1 mile down the beach ... but .... he appeared to be naked! There weren't any signs and we didn't even know the name of the beach but it appeared we had found us a nude beach! We later learned that people go nude if they want to on any of the beaches but there really aren't any "nude" beaches. We eventually realized we had spent the whole day on the beach and headed home for another relaxing evening of takeout, and the sunset.

The next day we explored a little, we drove around and never saw another soul! We found dead ends with rivers and waterfalls and ponds and more beaches - but no people! We considered taking a mule ride down to Kalaupapa (the leper colony) but when we discovered it took most of the day and cost over $100 a person and was very structured we scrapped it. We were really enjoying being alone and not dealing with other people.

The remainder of our time on Molokai was spent with no structure, no deadlines, and a lot of fun. We probably missed a lot of neat stuff and we didn't even take any tours or see anything famous but it was such an amazing time I didn't care. We slept late, ate a lot, talked a lot and fantasized about living there. I don't think it matters where you stay on Molokai - as long as you have a car, the island is so small everything is nearby. The quiet stillness of Molokai island makes it the ultimate place for two people wanting to relax and be with each other.