Serendib Travel

United’s new planes have some fancy window-tinting stuff, which at times turns the world blue.

My friend invited me to come along to her writing workshop on my last day in Honolulu, and I met several lovely local writers — Emma Candon’s first novel is coming out in a few months — it looks very cool. The Archive Undying! Also, they have this green tea cream puff there, which is

On Saturday my friend generously hosted at her house, and I cooked some rice and curries to share with the editors of Snaring New Suns: Speculative Works from Hawai’i and Beyond. I like to feed people if I can, before making them sit through a 90-minute SLF interview. . They brought lots of yummy food

On Friday, I moved to my writer friend’s house (on Oahu). This is Finn; he is very charming. Also ramen, me relaxing on her porch, and yummy guava bread. (Is it naturally that pink, or do they load it up with food coloring to get that effect?)

Pool at the Ala Moana hotel, Honolulu. When the ocean isn’t safe to go in, this is a nice option. I spent an hour or so lounging in the giant egg thingie and reading, and it was quite lovely.

There are a couple of GREAT food courts in the Ala Moana mall; if you like East Asian food, you’ll have many affordable options. I didn’t get to try ALL of these, alas. Tangerine sandwiches turned out to be a sub-optimal choice because the membranes made it a little hard to eat — would have

Eating in Hawai’i is very interesting to me. The breakfast buffet at the hotel offered miso soup, fried rice, white rice, along with the standard cereal / scrambled eggs / muffins / etc. that I’m used to. It also had something like six different kinds of meat, mostly pork-based, I think. Pork seems pretty inexpensive