Aloha, Waikiki

We walked along Waikiki, the beach I stopped going to when I was twelve. Even back in the Sixties I avoided it because it was too crowded and too touristy. But what did a kid really know about commercialism?

Just look at Waikiki now...highrise towers spreading inland for blocks, expensive shops that make Kalakaua Avenue look like Rodeo Drive, traffic jams at ten p.m...everything the kamaainas hate.

I'll miss it.