Back to the island

I arrived back to Kauaʻi just before the long weekend and moved into a new rental house in Waimea. Weather here is hot as it was in Tokyo, but here with the trade winds blowing, while the sun is more intense it feels quite comfortable.

Honolulu airport was quite crowded, according to the airport staff its mostly Hawaii residents heading off to the mainland with the Memorial Day weekend, the end of the academic school year here. My first time to take the flight back here from Japan, its a little different no only in that the time difference is a little less but it departs at midnight out of Tokyo Haneda airport, arriving around noon into Honolulu.

Iʻve been taking it easy the first couple of days and getting a little extra sleep adjusting to the time zone, not really doing much, dropping by to visit friends and eating simply. I like this rental house a lot - it deserves a full write up (coming soon) - for now hereʻs a photo from the back lanai looking east across the lower part of the Waimea Valley.