Hawaii 2019, Day 8

Big finish, Peeps!

After days of hearing mrguy proclaim how much he loves Maui and planning for our next trip to Maui, *this* trip to Maui was coming to an end.

We had a lovely breakfast and noticed a songbook by Helen Desha Beamer on the piano. There was even a photo of Kimo Henderson, for whom she composed Kimo Hula, which our band loves to play.

We went to the library and looked at all of the local history books. Found the books about presidents, and mrguy couldn't help but make a tableau of contrasts for us:

We looked at a bunch of city directories and almost had a fight about it. Mrguy was right about whatever the argument was.

For the last two days we'd been trying to determine the GPS coordinates of the Wailuku Ditch, because that's very close to where the family house was. We went in search of the ditch, which is on the way to the dump. People really drive fast there, and crossing the road was treacherous but we did it.

Picturesque, innit?
After this we went to the Makawao Cemetery, and the military cemetery next door, because this is where some of our people are buried.

We were standing out in the cemetery with an electrical storm coming and I was pretty sure we were going to be turned into human yakitori, but it worked out ok.

And then we met farmer's daughter at Rock & Brew, which has a horrible name, but is so much better for hanging out at than the quaint place where we were supposed to meet. It was great to come together after we'd been to the places where she'd sent us.

So there you go. We had an amazing time. We learned interesting things about the family. Like Toshiko Takaezu was the family's maid for a while. I want to learn more about this experience from Toshiko Takaezu's perspective, of course.

And that's it. Hawaii 2019 is complete. We have plans to go back to Maui in October, unless we die before then.