Been using a “real” camera most of this trip without an SD card reader or laptop handy so it feels like the “old” days where I don’t actually know if these will come out well. Here’s one shot on my iPhone.

Steps from our hotel for the next couple of days.

This lamb was incredible.

After a few days of mostly pork, seafood, and salt, @westminsterfox was ready for comfort food.

Elsa’s happy place — caldo de pollo at a Mexican restaurant with some good (re crazy spicy) salsa.

I would like to have more botanical-ruin porn in my parks.

Slow mo fire.

It took some time (ok, like 18 months), but we finally got some plants for the outside of our house.

New bookshelves ❤️. @westminsterfox and I have always thought built-ins belonged on this wall and now we have them. Our books are out of boxes for the first time in years and it’s clear we need to buy more.

New project— buy nicely printed editions of everything I’ve read that’s 4 stars and up on Goodreads I’ve only got on Kindle. Also, time to buy the rest of Absolute Sandman, I think.

Last morning here. Can’t wait to come back with @westminsterfox once Southwest announces flights.

Road a bike up a bit from the beach to Diamond Head Trail. A long way up, but worth it. Killer views of a large crater and the southern beaches of Oahu.

Back home after a weekend run up to NYC. I’m always sad when I take Amtrak along the Northeast Corridor. The whole experience is a reminder of how awful transit is in the US. As poorly done just about every part of CAHSR seemed to be, its recent collapse into a railway to nowhere is so disheartening.

Write blogs, not text as images on someone else’s platform.

I loved the alleyways of Taiwan. Like grass pushing through the cracks of sidewalks, activated alleyways were this organic, human-scaled resistance to frigid modernity.

Baltimore is also a city of alleys, but most are narrow forgotten footpaths of refuse. Our alleyways are hidden folds for fringe activity. Their alleyways are revelatory and exposing.

I’ve always like Conduit as a street name.

Salads, noodles, trees, Elsa, street market food… Seems like a pretty on brand Top 9.