ANCHORAGE, Alaska � Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she cut short her Hawaii vacation because of paparazzi, who photographed her wearing a sun visor with the name of John McCain blacked out.

The pictures were circulated widely on the Internet with speculation the redaction was a slight against McCain, but Palin said she meant no disrespect to her former GOP running mate.
�In an attempt to �go incognito,� I Sharpied the logo out on my sun visor so photographers would be less likely to recognize me and bother my kids or other vacationers,� Palin said in a statement.
�I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his re-election,� the former Alaska governor said.
Other photographs of the Palins relaxing on the beach showed up on celebrity Web sites such as www.tmz.com.
�Todd and I have since cut our vacation short because the incognito attempts didn�t work and fellow vacationers were bothered for the two days we spent in the sun. So much for trying to go incognito,� she said.
She was even more pointed in a message to her Twitter followers Thursday night upon returning home to Alaska, where a fresh 18 inches of snow had fallen: �So cut sunny vacation short (thanks, desperate paparazzi).�
Palin�s visit to the islands comes a week ahead of President Obama�s expected vacation on Oahu, where he was born, spent many of his childhood years and attended high school.
Palin is no stranger to the Aloha State.
According to a biography � �Sarah� by Kaylene Johnson � Palin and three friends went to the University of Hawaii at Hilo after graduation from high school in Alaska in 1982. But they left after a few weeks because of the constant rain there, the book said.
Palin, then known as Sarah Louise Heath, and a friend traveled to Honolulu and enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College, a private, nonsectarian school now known as Hawaii Pacific University. She attended as a freshman during the fall of 1982.
From HPU, Palin transferred to North Idaho College, a two-year school in Coeur d�Alene, and eventually graduated from the University of Idaho in 1987.
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Associated Press Writer Jaymes Song in Honolulu contributed to this report.