Hiking through Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii was a surreal and incredible reminder of the power of Mother Nature. I would have never believed that so many beautiful flowering plants could live throughout a sea of hardened black lava. Nor would I have expected clouds of steam to rise from the ground in the middle of a forest. Like taking a walk through a rainforest, which leads you to the moon, where you continue on to Oz, every bit of it was amazing.