Alex took me out to dinner at Bar Acuda on my first night in Kauai. We had: • North Shore Honeycomb- with Humboldt Fog goat cheese, crisp Fuji apple, ciabatta bread (yummy, recommended) • Steamed Clams- white wine, butter, chili lemon crisp, & ciabatta bread (good, rich) • a variation on French onion soup they […]
Landed in Kauai, took ride-share to my friend’s house, and he promptly dragged me down to the beach. I didn’t take much dragging. (Although I have caught YET ANOTHER COLD, and it is super-annoying. I know, nobody reading this is actually pitying me, and that is understandable. This is possibly the best place in the
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It’s only a 45-minute flight from Oahu to Kauai, but they managed to sneak in a POG or water beverage service (passionfruit-orange-guava, a staple in the islands, apparently. Yummy). I was sort of bewildered that there aren’t ferries running between the islands. Apparently, someone did try to set up a ferry service from Oahu to
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Exhibit at Honolulu airport on Hawaiian Japanese soldiers who fought for the U.S. in World War II. Doesn’t really get into the complexity — no mention of ‘no-no boys,’ for example. (See also John Okada’s novel of that name.) Sometimes I wish there were just roving historians who would go around and help people revise
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Last morning at my friend’s house in Honolulu — leftover chili-garlic shrimp for breakfast, adorable schnauzer petting. I am starting to think I should have seafood and rice for breakfast every morning; it’s so delicious.
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It’s taking me a while to post the various trip photos, so I’m running a few days behind. But I’ll just note that I am astonishingly lucky enough to now be at a writing event in Hawaii (in Kauai) for another week. After a weekend of fairly focused work, I’ve finished a full draft of
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Haleiwa is known for shopping and food trucks — I was there on Thanksgiving afternoon, so all the shops were closed, but I did manage to get to try the chili-garlic shrimp from Jenny’s food truck — delish!
My sister, brother-in-law, niece and I stopped at the Dole Plantation. It’s going to take me a little while to articulate everything I found so deeply troubling about it — maybe after I post this series of photos. But if you’re in Honolulu with small children who need entertaining, there’s a maze in the shape
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