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| Robinson the Adventurous Otter is off on another junket! Visit www.bikefriday.com/bf/robinson |
Banyan tree in Hilo. Enough to make Tarzan weep ... |
You can tell how committed a town is to bicycles by the size of the bike rack - outside Hilo's biggest supermarket. |
Chocolate is a health food before they add sugar and fat. This is the beans ground up - expensive at $7 for this packet. |
Another shot of real chocolate. |
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| Majestic tree in a Japanese cemetery, Hilo. |
Local bike/ped/recycling activist Charles DiBella operates a national non-profit computer recycling/reuse network.
www.recycles.org, and www.bikepaths.org |
Nothing like a dress shop to rescue you form the intermittent downpours ... |
$35 .. can I afford it? How many grams does that add to my suitcase trailer? |
The view from the 4th story window of Charles' apartment. Big leaves, shiny with rain, bleating coqui frogs. I met Charles when he advertised for a lo-maintenance lodger on craigslist.org |
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| Hawaii wallpaper... |
Hilda, JB and Katie Friday - yes, that's their real name, Dept of Forestry experts in HIlo - and owners of 3 Bike Fridays. |
Foresters JB, Hilda and Katie Friday (their real last name) at the What's Shakin' smoothie stand on the Onomea Scenic Road just a few miles out of Hilo. They've used their Fridays on research trips. |
Fabulous Hawaiian ginger is $1 pound - enough to make a Vitamix sing... |
Stumbled across a practice session of girls doing traditional Tahitian dance - like doing the limbo with a straight back in some cases. |
