Serendib Travel

The house we’re staying at happens to be the nesting site of an albatross family, and a new baby albatross has arrived. It’s about one month old and very cute. The Laysan albatross (local name: moli — a moli is also the needle that was traditionally made from the birds’ sharp wing bones and used

I may have gone to a ukelele store yesterday (Hanalei Strings, in Kauai), and I may have told both Jed and the nice young man at the counter that I wasn’t actually planning to buy a ukelele… …but I may have researched the store in advance and may have seen that they had a beautiful

Arrived Honolulu, got a fair bit of work done on the 9 hr flight, good. Also watched Ticket to Paradise, Julia Roberts and George Clooney in Bali, basically an argument for abandoning your life and moving to a beautiful tropical island. I feel Jamaica Kincaid would have something biting to say about that, but it

Sprained ankle while traveling: the wheelchair request meant that I also boarded first. I don’t think I’ve ever been the first to board a big plane before; kind of fun. . Ankle hurts a little, but I just took two aspirin per doctor’s orders to reduce risk of blood clots — though he also said

Sprained ankle while traveling: Absolutely the right call to set up a wheelchair for the airport; it’s free, you just add the request to your reservation online through major airlines like United. For smaller airlines, probably you call the airport. It would have been a long and tiring walk; O’Hare is big. Allow at least

A few pics in flight — these are actually from the flight out to CT. I like the one with the shadow of our plane! And it feels like such a privilege to get to observe the textures of the clouds from above…

Boarded and ready to go; looks like we’ll miss the storm. Good luck to everyone traveling today!

Panorama, Secret Beach, Kauai.