2003 … My new Home by the Sea
I didn’t know how to get to the Big Island after landing in Honolulu (having falsely assumed that there would be regular boat shuttles between the islands), so I wandered into town with “only the clothes on my back” and lived for the first week there in Ala Moana Park; making bracelets during the day (in the hopes of being able to sell them to pay for my eventual passage to the Big Island) and sleeping wherever the early-morning sprinklers wouldn’t soak me …
“Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do… the place just grows on you.” ~ James MacArthur
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