At sea approaching Hawaii: Tomorrow morning we’ll be alongside in Honolulu ... we’re there all day and into the evening. Then we cruise overnight to Nawiliwili Bay on Kauai for another port day, after which it is five more sea days to Los Angeles.
Wildfire is a rural California thing, I grew up watching forest fires burn across the mountains of the Los Padres National Forest that rim the Ojai valley. It happened every 3-4 years then, probably still does.
Our CA home is in the large region in NorCal evacuated because of the so-called Camp fire, so named because it started near the intersection of Camp Creek Road and Highway 70. We didn’t evacuate, of course, because we were already long gone on this month-long cruise.
We may or may not have a CA home to return to when we land a week from tomorrow. Because our neighbors are evacuated too, we have no way to learn the state of our property. I suppose we’ll drive north in our rental car and see what we see when we get there. We might spend a winter in Wyoming after all, that’d be very weird.
Our NorCal place has been threatened by fire 3-4 times since we built it 31 years ago. So far we’ve dodged the bullet, I’m guessing we will this time too, but could easily be wrong. I’ll let y’all know in a week.
