Kalapana was a town that was swallowed by lava in the 1990s--we followed the road as far as we could, into a wasteland of Pahoehoe lava. If the road went through, it would connect with Chain of Craters Road.

you can see steam from the same lava flow that we saw in Volcanoes Nat'l Park--just from the other direction. *

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recolonization--but of the human variety. people still want to live on their property, even without electricity or plumbing...