Bruddah

Aloha ʻOe" ("Farewell to Thee") is a Hawaiian folk song written c. 1878 by Liliʻuokalani (1838-1917), who was then Princess of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is her most famous song and is a common cultural symbol for Hawaii.

We got up the next morning early very early, making coffee and leaving with our bags at a quarter after five. We let our GPS guide us down through the pitch lack of night through the forest, then drove towards the airport on the coast, stopping at a blazingly lit oasis of gas pumps along the main highway near the airport to fill up the rental car. We did the reverse of our arrival, dropping off thecar and making our way to the place where, curbside, you put your bags on  the belt of the scanner of the Hawaii State Agricultural Inspection, after which you get an orange sticker on your bag of it having passed. You take it to the automated check in and baggage tag kiosks of your airline, which is closeby. You attach your bagged tag through the handle of your rolling bag, then you stand in the short line and drop off your bag. 

We go up the escalators and buy coffee at the Starbucks there. As we approached the security gate, we stopped to look at a small kiosk. I bent over to position by bag. As I did so the sunglasses, that I had bought on our first full day here, fell out of the pocket of my Hawaiian shirt and slid on the smooth terminal floor. At fist I couldn't see where they had gone.

A young Hawaiian man, rotund without being too fat,  bent down and grabbed the glasses, then stood up and handed them to me. "Here you go, bruddah." 

Fantastic trip, it was.