A dissapointing day in many ways. Took the truck in to get the repairs done and the quote ends up twice as much as I had figured and it won't be ready until the end of the week.
Several of the errands I tried to do by bicycle turned out not to be open, lots of shops closed 1st and 2nd...
Stopped by the "community garden" that kevin tried to start at the college and was told by the custodian that he was going to lobby the admistration to "discontinue the program" since the people involved had never come to pull the weeds and it was a waste of water. I did get a couple of tomatoes... I tried to explain to the guy that it was a kind of garden that aimed to be as productive as possible with as minimal inputs as possible. His responses were, "That is minimal inputs!" and, "That isn't how you garden!".
At the enrollment I did get into the Hawaiian History class that I needed special permissions for. My textbooks were outrageously expensive.
Cycling around was kind of fun, but when I found out I would have to come back days later for the truck, and tried to ride into the trade winds to Paia, I got a sore arse.
Thankfully Geoff was there to give me a cup of coffee and play me some GW Bush parodies off the internet and Lorinda was already in Haiku to come and get me. Geoff is bringing the bike back later in his truck...