Thu -- Thanksgiving. We have reservations on the north shore of West Maui at McCormick's Merriman's which bills itself as the original "farm-to-table restaurant". Fine dining on the water, with an option for a traditional thanksgiving "harvest plate", which we both order, while looking out to Moloka'i. Jessica reserved a table weeks ago, right when it first became available, so we an optimal view. We didn't mind early dinner because of the time chane.
On the way to the restaurant we had to drive around Lahaina on the bypass highway. One notices the memorial on the chain link fence just as one goes in the underpass. It is poignant and of the same time of display at the one on the iron fence of St. Paul's Church on Lower Broadway after 9/11, smaller of scale.
From the bluff above town on the bypass one can see the burned areas of the town, including the damaged banyan tree, and the smokestack. The bypass then descends from the bluff and comes down into the north side of town. There ones sees what looks to be an intact normal modern village in the Hawaiian islands, with a Shell station and a several mini-malls of various vintage. It could be anywhere in most of California, the way it looks.North of there is more burned areas, including the remnants of a condo complex completely gone, if I recall from previous research.
This will be the "old" part of town now, I think to myself as we drive though it.
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