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I'll be dropping these updates about the Hawai'i trip intermittenly over the next few... indetermiate measures of time.  Even though I'm starting at the begining I'll be doling them out in nonlinear form.  Pictures will accompany for those who visitors who may be illiterate.

We spent all of monday traveling so there's very little to comment on besides the interior of America's airports.  While that might seem to make for a very interesting coffee table book, it would only be suitable for the living room of a very BORING family.

We arrived in Honolulu at roughly 5pm.  Which to us felt like 11pm at night.  Interest in a new place and all therigamroll associated with getting off a plane kept fatigue at bay.  We got our rental car, and proceeded to get lost in Honolulu for roughly a half hour.  Funny thing about islands, not a lot of roads.  They road they do have are stacked on top of one another, something to do with limited space.  After missing several turns and seeing the same Buddist parochial school three times we finally made it onto the main drag that crosses O'ahu.  It's a pretty drive.  Of course, saying something is 'pretty' in Hawai'i is like saying something is 'covered in ice' in Antarctica.  We were soon to discover that taking lovely pictures in Hawai'i was like catching herpes in a women's prison.  Note:  The picture to the right was not taken by either of us, but stolen borrowed without permission from someone else.  It's just there to illustrate a point.

We met up with our hosts and got settled in.  Then we all decided to have dinner together.  Game for something local, we went out for a plate lunch.  This was new on me but I'd heard of such things.  For the uninitiated it's some form of meat entree served with two ice cream scoops of white rice and a scoop of macaroni salad.  So it goes protein, starch, starch, starch mixed with mayonnaise.  In retrospect, it's not hard to understand why the State hero is this guy.  The local version of the plate lunch is kalua pig.  This is basically just slow roasted pork, traditionally cooked in an underground oven using fired rocks.  As an original southerner and aspiring barbecue judge, this obviously appealed to me.  And I am here to report, without reservation, that slow-cooked pork is the undisputed King of All Foods. 

After dinner we visited with our hosts for a while, made small talk, and wondered at their amazing house.  Then we sacked out to begin our adventure proper the next day...

...but that is another story.

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