Anna arrived home in North Carolina yesterday after a three-week visit to her grandfather in Honolulu and her nine-month volunteer experience in Sacramento. I picked her up at the airport (RDU), where the yellow cabs were lined up waiting for visitors needing a ride. The sides of those cabs are emblazoned taxi taxi.
That’s funny, I thought, because the airport Anna had departed from, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), is famous for its shuttle bus called Wiki Wiki, which inspired Ward Cunningham as he created the first wiki, or user-editable website, which he called the WikiWikiWeb. I was a rider of the Wiki Wiki shuttle when I lived in Honolulu from 1992 to 1995.
Meanwhile, the day before taxi taxi and wiki wiki, a group of Carrboro and Chapel Hill residents marked the third anniversary of their group news site, which they call Triangle Blog Blog (tag line: ‘silly name, smart ideas’). I wanted to drop in on the party—beer, pierogis, and cake!—to cheer on Jon and Melody and the others and thank them for their community advocacy, but I was already feeling a scratchy throat and didn’t want to have them feeling like I’m feeling today (sneeze, sneeze).
Here at home, we’ve just celebrated Anna’s birthday with tuna, carrot cake, gifts, and conversation. Anna reported that she had enjoyed her time with Abu Joseph and Abu Dot, and even got to hike with our friends Blaine and Rebecca—long ago, Blaine and I and Anna went hiking here in the sandhills of North Carolina before she’d even turned one! Tonight Anna said some of her best times in California over the last year were hiking Pt. Reyes seashore with me and Erin and in Yosemite National Park with her fellow volunteers.
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