Beautiful Honolulu

Man, this is a nice city. Liz claims it reminds her of Manhattan only with perfect weather. She said she never imagined high-rises with windows that open, much less stay open day and  night.

We arrived at Honolulu airport at 9 P.M. and were picked up by a very gracious host Merv Pinpin, who we met through AIRBNB. We'll be bunking in his and partner Brian's spare room for a few days until the  timeshare Liz arranged (Once again, I married a most amazing woman!) is ready for us. Nice place! A corner apartment on the 18th floor just a mile or so off Waikiki.

How's that for a view?

These are a couple of great guys.

A very nice cat named Rusty and a Parrot Cichlid ( over a foot long, must wiegh a couple of pounds) named Frank.


We spent the day exploring Waikiki. Even happened upon a filming of "Hawaii 5-0. Got massively lost. Not the fault of the bus drivers. I'ts just that we had no idea of the way the bus system works. Residents expressed surprise we couldn't make sense of it, so I suppose in a few days we'll get used to it. Actually saw a lot of the city that way. Of course I saw a few local attractions three or four times, and our intended destinations not once. Finally fell back on old standbys, fired up Navigator on the cellphone and pretended we were driving back.  Less than a mile later, back at Brian and Merv's.

Note the last picture. Don't bother bringing your sand wedge to the beach