Paia used to be a major sugar town in the late 1800′s. To this day it is surrounded by fields and fields and fields of dense sugar cane. The mill where this sugar cane is processed is located in Puunene. It is the last operating mill on Maui and one of the largest in the world. I really like the way the mill looks and always made a point to drive by it when I got the chance. The first time my windows were down. For a place that produces something so sweet it’s incredibly how funky-foul the surroundings of the mill smell… the local dump is just down the road. From that first time on the car windows remained stoically up.

©Sarah Girner