Denouement: Hawaii and Home

I've been back at home for three days now, trying to catch up on my affairs and jetlag. The days have flown by without seeming like I'm either getting much done or having time to relax. It feels weirdly like we've never been gone, and the immediacy of our travels is fading quickly.

Unfortunately, Hawaii wasn't entirely relaxing decompression that we'd hoped for. I spent the first two days sleeping constantly, and the next four with a constant fever--one last souvenir from Asia.

Much of that time we were on Molokai, where there isn't actually much to do anyway. Eventually I felt well enough that we could drive around the island and look at the pretty sites. On the last day we did the classic tourist activity of riding mules down the cliffside to the old leper colony; that was quite nice. I really liked Molokai in the end. It was the friendliest, mellowest place I've been in the islands; it felt like what the rest of Hawaii is supposed to be like, and perhaps was like fifty years ago.

Anyway, we're back now and trying to figure out what to do with ourselves. I'm likely going to help move a boat up to Washington this weekend, possibly Tara and I will meet up in Seattle/Victoria for a few days. Later in May, my kyudo group is doing a multi-day archery+zen retreat up in Sonoma. Perhaps we'll do some camping, I dunno yet.

I presuming that now that most of the action is in the past tense, there won't be a ton of readership staying on the edge of their seats. But I will post here when photos finally get up (I've got about a thousand), I might write some more about China for my own amusement, and I might tell continuing unemployment travel stories.