I found my car broken into and certain valuable and important possessions gone. Mainly a camera bag containing accessories including chargers, lenses, portable hard drives, tripods, spare batteries, and so forth. Revealing a major weakness in my plan. Amazing how much important little stuff will go in one bag.
Sunrise comes with roosters and the steady roll of the small summer surf breaking on the beach. My story has reached the second major plot point: where the man and woman first realize there is something going on. I’ll be spending the day figuring out what happens next.
Another day at Anahola. I arrived late last night to find my guitar gone from my tent. I had told Eddie he could borrow it if I wasn’t there, so I assumed he’d borrowed it, and as it turned out…he had. I stayed up watching the stars and learning to play Hanalei Moon on the ukulele (since the guitar was gone). Then woke at the break of dawn to watch the sunrise. Then got up to find my guitar in my red beach chair. I made some coffee and had a cranberry muffin and some orange juice. Here’s a nice picture of the Mountain sometimes called Kong. This beach is part of Hawaiian Homeland and I’m feeling very privileged to be accepted here. People are obviously a little skeptical of strangers…especially strangers with light skin. But everyone has been quite friendly.
On July 2 I am in my tent while a little rainstorm passes. I’m set up here and can stay for five more days before I have to move. This campsite is in an area designated as Hawai’ian homeland. I’m not sure what that means, but there aren’t any tourists here or teenagers 
on vacation. People here have been friendly and welcoming, though they first looked at me as if I must be lost. A fellow down the beach from me dropped by and sang me a couple of songs while playing my guitar. Yesterday morning I got about a page of story worked out then went to Hanalei beach to research some details of the story. I realized I had left my folding chair on the beach overnight and was happy to find it right where I left it. I spent most of yesterday afternoon looking around Kapaa for a place to find a small folding table…without any luck. I guess I’ll have to drive all the way to Lihue and go to the Walmart or Home Depot. Or K Mart. The rain has passed so I guess I’ll go out and try to make some coffee with my stove down at ground level.
Plenty of opportunity this evening to practice my camera work. Sometimes the cell phone does well enough.
I worked on the treatment for the movie during the first 12 hours of the trip until I felt like I was beginning to hate the story, so I just put it away. I slept most of the way from LAX to Kauai. Almost all of my anxiety melted away as soon as I felt the tropical breezes. It was fairly warm but the air was moving so nicely and I felt good. And everyone I’ve encountered so far has confirmed my belief in the aloha spirit of the people here. The cab drive told me his favorite beach for camping (which is one that is on my list of three sites at which I’ll be staying), and gave me a gift of a local alternative to saying “Aloha.” I guess he liked me! I’m checked in to the Kauai Palms Motel which has internet wireless access, so I’m getting some internet work done this morning before heading out to get my rental car.
The hotel is actually quite nice. Air-conditioned, quiet and friendly. And close to the airport! I was too tired and disoriented last night to do much film work, but I did get a very nice rest.
I’ve started on the first leg of my journey. Luckily got an aisle seat next to an exit do it’s almost as roomy as first class. I decided to work on a treatment of the script on the flight and have already run into a problem on page three. So I’m blogging while I mull it over.
I’m all caught up in preparing for my seven weeks in Kauai, which involves not only making sure I’ve packed all I need, but also taking care of things I have to do before I leave. For example: I’m providing some music at a wedding tomorrow and still have some rehearsing to do before then. My car needs the brake bled after having changed the Master cylinder. And so forth. Most of the details about the venture can be found at my site Kauaithemovie.net site or my IndieGoGo site. The video below is a brief introduction and can be found at both of those sites. When I’m in Kauai I’ll be posting to this page regularly. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPc-yAkWKwc]
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