A Wrinkle in Hawaii Standard Time

 Wed -- We leave for the airport, park the car in the garage, check in our bags and fly Southwest to OGG, which is Kahului Airport, which is the main commercial airport for the island of Maui. The airport is fresh and open, and one remembers what Hawaiian airports feel like as one arrives. A special feeling.  We get our rental car, a Jeep SUV, and head first to thing to a pod of food carts in town, to get dinner, Kahlua pig plate, and then drive next door to Costco, where we find the parking lot busy. We sweep through Costco. Mostly I'm interested in how it feels compared to other Costcos. That's what travel in America has become, even in Maui. In Costco I always like to notice the giant rotating metal blade fans in the ceiling. With a load of Hawaiian snacks, which are ample, and with a couple new Hawaiian shirts for me, right off the rack, we drive across the island to our BnB, which outside Lahaina in west Maui. It is a quiet house compound makua (towards the mountain) from the main highway south of Lahaina town, which we do no go into yet. There are automated check-in instructions. We leave our shoes at the door. We fill our breakfast preferences for morning, using the dry erase pen on the laminated menu in the main living area, which looks out to. pool in the backyard and then our to see. Out on the lanai one can see, well,  Lanai, directly across the channel, and from that location in the backyard, the sun of late Novembers sets on the southernmost tip of the island profile.

While there, I found myself wanting to take a break from the news, which is basically my X feed. Over the next six days I successfully did that, scaling back usage to the point where I became interested in the crate of books that the host had placed in the main room. I found one box that was mostly novels in Swedish and German. There were a few English language thrillers, and then I noticed A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.  I had never read it, but decided at once it was the perfect thing to do, and I finished it at leisurely pace over the next two days, during our sojourning in the BnB.