Greetings from the SS Minnow — I mean the Pride of America. 50mph headwinds so we are a couple of hours late getting into Hilo which complicates my friend Jeff’s plans to go pop rebar into patches of hot molten lava, not unlike how a glass blower would pull his punt (somehow that sounds dirtier than it actually is.We had a nice surprise when we returned to room last night from dinner — the security woman who had confiscated one (but not both) of my nicely wrapped “anniversary” gifts from my parents (aka, the booze in those oversized gift boxes with a flask or a book or something) — had brought the second one back to the cabin. I guess my “anniversary presents from my parents” worked. Still think it’s an annoying policy that forces people to be sneaky. I guess they just needed “plausible deniability” since she obviously let me keep one — in front all the other people in line for the “secondary inspection”.
Overcast and drizzly in Hilo — but this doesn’t phase who just picked up some guy on the boat so I’ve been booted from the cabin. And to make matters worse, the pool area with all the cute guys is in the middle of having a TV Theme Song Trivia contest. So, it’s espresso on the back deck overlooking the Hilo airfield where a large military transport just landed, most likely Hawaii National Guard.
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