2004jun04. More photos. Hawaii.
I AM FATHER DAMIENBOT BEEP BOOP
A tree.
Hibiscus. The state flower, although now the yellow variety is used because of the Red Dye #40 food coloring scare of 1968.
Anything corporate will plaster leis and hibiscus flowers on their products. The colonel of Kentucky FRIED Chicken, for example, sports a lei at at least one KFriedC outlet on Oahu. Hello Kitty, here represented in tile form at the Sanrio store, wears a hibiscus flower and several varieties of suntanned grass-skirted Hello Kitty dolls are for sale inside. These are what are called Corporate Whores.
After attacking the waves at Pipeline on the North Shore, we stopped in at the Shark’s Cove Grill and had some really great fish on skewers and what was called a “banana ‘protein’ shake.” Best food on the island that we had, although we did not eat all the food on the island. You would have read about that in the paper. Anyway, these flowers were there.
These flowers were not there.
“Dude, I totally got Melona!”
“Dude ... did you stay out in the sun too long?”
“Dude?”
And now, the sunset on our last day in Hawaii, bringing an exciting, exotic tropical end to my trip report.
Hahahah! Right. I’m going to milk this baby for another three months. Boy, are you going to be sick of me in Southeast Asia at the end of this nonsense ...