RANSVESTIA

but I had seen a lot of four of the islands and had had a marvelous time.

The next year (1966) I decided that I would return to Hawaii again to stay at the Cocoa Palms Hotel which I had seen a bit of the year before but didn't stay at. I had resolved to see if I could live in the same place for a week seeing the same waiters, clerks and maids without being read. The first night I found an invitation under my door to attend a cocktail party given by the hotel manager. I couldn't figure why I would be singled out for such an honor but I went any- way. She met all of us and asked questions about ourselves and our work. I told her that I had come over to the islands for some peace so that I could write up a family history. Shortly thereafter, an interesting young man came in and after talking to him she brought him over to me and introduced us saying that I was a writer, too. We got to talking and discovered that he actually lived on top of the same hill in Hollywood that I lived at the foot of. So, I had to be a little coy about things. Anyway, we arranged to have dinner together the following day and during that dinner we decided to take a hike together the following day to some falls that were up the canyon always. I had bought a muu muu and I wore that and, of course, my wig. I put sunscreen on my face and arms but failed to allow for the crescent of skin below my shoulder length hair and the oval neck of the muu muu. The hike was westward in the AM so the sun beat on my back all the way up and as a result I got a dilly of a burn in that

area.

I got acquainted with another woman who taught school nearby and when I told her I would like to take my wig to a shop to get it cleaned and set she offered to let me ride into the little town of Lihue with her which I did, and left the wig to be cleaned and set. The damp air makes keeping a hairdo somewhat precarious but I had taken the precaution of having two wigs of identical color and style so that one could be set and I'd still be the same girl while it was being done.

I proved that I could make it at the Cocoa Palms so I took a bus out to the far end of the island to Hanalei Plantation and stayed there a couple of nights but there weren't many people so it was dull. I came back and went around the south end of the island to Poipu Beach and stayed in a hotel there for several days. There was a nice swimming beach which I used and I made the acquaintance of another young woman and we decided to rent bicycles and take a trip up the coast

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