Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
An expected global population boom concentrated in Africa and the Middle East will present opportunities and challenges for officers beginning their military careers, said Brig. Gen. (Ret) James T. Hirai, the deputy general of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). More than 200 officers of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force–many newly commissioned…
“Please, Mommy? Paddleboard? Please, Mommy? Now!” Eloise LOVES stand up paddleboarding. Actually it was really windy Sunday so we did sit up paddleboarding. Getting past the breakers against the wind with a tot is a bit of a challenge, but we did it. Isaac had less luck. We got him his own paddleboard last week…
The Scoop—along with all the rest of our absurd amount of crap—arrived safe and sound a couple weeks ago. In no time, it was up and running, and we were off. We drove by the beach. We drove by the Mokes. We drove by casual hula performance. We drove by tourists. All we need now…
We drove around Koko Head to go to Costco and look for paddleboards. Poor Isaac is a jellyfish magnet, as evidenced by yesterday’s ill-fated venture to the beautiful Bellows Air Force Rec beach. Maybe a paddleboard would give him a leg up on the water hazards. Who wants to guess whether, after an hour of…
The Kawai Nui Canal runs along two sides of Coconut Grove and drains the largest wetlands in Oahu. And the entrance to the walking trail through the marsh is just a half mile from Coconut Cottage. The trail ends on the Pali Highway or whatever road it turns into as it enters Kailua, and you…
“No, I shook his hand but we will hug. You kama’aina now.” The woman who witnessed and notirized our deed and mortgage signing this morning—Hawaiian by blood—folded me into a congratulatory hug. Kama’aina is Hawaiian for local. Downstairs, I got into my car, turned the corner. I live here now. That’s as far as I got…
“It’s so America!” I thought the first time I visited Hawaii, coming from Japan. “It’s so Japan!” I think now all the time, having come from the mainland. Today I picked up a tourism magazine in Japanese from a huge stack near Lanikai Juice, where we’d stopped to retrieve the hat Isaac left there a…
