July 18-August 7, 1971: Charlotte to Fort Harrison
	July 7, 1971: My Departure from Korea
	Return to Index for 1971

Options for my flight back to the United States were actually pretty broad. My orders simply specified that my next duty station would be Fort Harrison, Indiana, and that I was allowed any air routing that would generally get me there. One of the options was a stopover in Hawaii, and I decided that visiting the Islands for the first time was an opportunity too good to pass up.

I landed on July 10 in Honolulu, and departed for Charlotte on July 19, so I was able to spend a little more than a week here. There was lots I wanted to do. My housing was taken care of when I stayed at Officer Housing at Fort DeRussy, right adjacent to Waikiki Beach. My transportation while on Oahu was generously provided by Peter Cannon's parents who loaned me a car for the week. Incidentals were fairly expensive, but I was able to keep the costs in check and even work in a trip to the Big Island.

So at the end of my Korean adventure, I have another one starting up.

July 10, 1971       Walking Waikiki July 11, 1971       Waianae/West Shore       Haleiwa/North Shore July 12, 1971       The Windward Coast July 13, 1971       Marineland of the Pacific       Polynesian Village July 14, 1971       Waikiki       The Punchbowl       The Arizona Memorial July 15, 1971       The Big Island       A Coast Drive July 16, 1971       Volcanoes National Park       My Final Return Home

As I mentioned before, picture-taking in the late 20th century was an imprecise activity. By that I mean than when we went around snapping one photo or another, we had little to tell us when the picture was taken. When we got our prints or slides back, they were only marked with when the roll was developed and printed. The pictures on a single film roll could have been taken minutes apart or weeks apart; there was no way to tell.

In creating this online photo album, I have had to approximate some dates; although, in many cases, the date doesn't really matter that much. Taking slides as I was doing, when the roll was developed at least the slides were numbered sequentially, so I could see the order in which the pictures were taken. When I wrote my narratives (a practice that I continued when I returned home from Korea), I usually mentioned the day on which I did something if not the exact calendar date.

For example, I was able to put my visits to the Punchbowl and to the Arizona Memorial on the same day page because in my narrative I had used the phrase "...later that day..." between the two sets of pictures. Other "date breaks" I have had to approximate.

I can, however, date the Hawaii trip precisely to have begun on July 10th and ended on the 19th or so. Internal to the Hawaii visit, I think I have done a good job separating the activities and pinpointing the dates. (In the future, when digital cameras become the norm, those cameras will automatically tag each picture with not only WHEN it was taken- to the second- but also WHERE it was taken.)

But even though the actual dates aren't really important, they are useful in organizing the pages of the Hawaii trip so that no single web page becomes unwieldy. You can use the index on this page to go directly to a particular destination that may be of interest to you. On each of those pages, you will find links at the top and bottom that will take you to the next or previous section of pictures, as well as a link that will bring you back here to the index.

If you would simply like to follow me to all of my Japan destination, just follow the first link in the index, follow the page links from page to page, and on the last section page use the link that will return you to the top of this page. You will need to return here to continue through the photo album, and look at my pictures from the period of 1971 prior to this Hawaii visit or to the many 1971 events that followed it.

I hope you enjoy coming along with me on my first visit to America's newest state.