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Moon 2y ago

Hawaii was kinda tough for me tho - arrived with no friend group and it was difficult to make one. Folks already established there seemed pretty insular already and the pandemic certainly didnā€™t help. Also Hawaii as a state seemed to pride itself in being as backwards as possible on bitcoin regulation. Most services donā€™t work out thereā€¦

Did a lot of aimless walking / biking around Honolulu, SUPing at Ala Moana and Lanikai, and sunning / boozing at the rooftop of the Alohilani. Lonely? A bit. But in many ways it was also a good place to be alone when I reflect back on it now.

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šŸ¢ 2y ago

I heard the pandemic really hurt the place. Discouraged lots of people from interacting out of fear. They even closed the beaches at one point I hear. Itā€™s much more lively now, when I first showed up the mask mandates were still on and activity functions off. but now there are a lot more activities and concerts and things happening again. Maybe youā€™ll get a chance to come back and feel the aloha.

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Moon 2y ago

Yeah when I arrived hotels were at less than 1% capacity it was only people stuck there for 2 week quarantine. They give you a single entry key and hotel door would lock behind you tried to leaveā€¦

I remember when they tried to close the beaches. Thatā€™s didnā€™t last long tho because the locals wouldnā€™t have it. There was lots of finger pointing at tourists and vacationers but the then the locals wouldnā€™t give up their 50-100 person beach cookouts every Thu, Fri, Sat, and Sun. I donā€™t blame them for that I just didnā€™t like the divisiveness and hypocrisy.

I left when they started asking for vaccine proof to go inside buildings even though I had been on the island for months. It was too muchā€¦