Snipped this picture from Fish Hopper’s web page. It nicely shows “my” room. For 50+ years, Fish Hopper was The Ocean View. Actually there was little view of the ocean because the screens were so dirty. It was a wonderful dive. With snarky waitresses. Beat up old guys drinking at any and all hours. This review of it remains on-line
The oldest restaurant in West Hawaii, this establishment is very popular with local people, mainly because it serves local food: combinations of American, Hawaiian, Chinese and Japanese. White sticky rice is served with everything (including breakfast), teriyaki sauce is poured on every imaginable meat and the helpings would please a sumo wrestler. Décor is nonexistent—Formica tables, drab walls and linoleum floors—but the service is quick and the prices low. The bar does a brisk business in the evenings.
In 2010 or so, The Ocean View went out of business and the Fish Hopper from Northern California moved in. They spent about a year cleaning the place and it is now a nice gentrified establishment. And, it is my breakfast joint of choice.
Having a lovely day here. Hopefully, the niceness will carry over to the evening and the Nats will get back their winning ways.
I am still in the extreme minimalist travel mode from summer. It is hard to go back to the old “maximum legal carryon” days. At this instant, I have enough “status” to check anything I want free, but, you never know about how I will be coming home.
I really enjoy not having to wrangle stuff. I used to want to be sure that I had every possible comfort of home with me in Kona. Now it is sufficient to just be in Kona.
Well, maybe tomorrow I’ll start getting ready to go to Kona. Or not.
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First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League
Go Nats!