Tag: Hawaii

Pake Kokua (Hawaiian for, roughly, Chinese Helper, which really ought to read Saint).

I first read this book back in my teens, and I was in Hawaii recently and decided it was time to reread it. It has held up really well in the interim. Okay, Michener not the greatest master of the craft of writing, agreed, but he knows how to tell a story. Here he tells…

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Random Saturday

No visit to the island of Hawaii is complete until you spend a morning at the Hawai’i Tropical Botanical Garden. Perched on an outcropping of the rocky north coast of the island, on and around a cheerfully gurgling stream which runs into the surf planted with thousands of tropical flowers the view is stunning in…

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