The volcano was angrier than last year. On top of that there was a 4.5 earthquake last week. It kind of felt like when the building I live in jiggles everytime the trash haulers speed their illegally oversized truck down Houston Street.

more images tomorrow

On the way to the volcano, Pu'u O'o.

In the last 30 years the eruptions have reclaimed parts of civilization. Thank you very much.

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Pu'u O'o was angrier than last year. What you are looking at is the vog coming out of the vent about a mile or so off and coming right at you. You are not supposed to go past this point to get any closer.

The next couple of shots are a sequence showing the extent of the vog cloud.

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Sunday is Kehenna beach time.

There is a LOT of smoking at the party.

With less tourists, a thinned out total population -there are now only around 175,000 people on the big island according to some sources- the rising soveriegnty push, the increasing swell of cultural practitioners, and a couple of other developments I won't go in to here, all enhancing the liberationzone, this is really getting to be the prime place in the U.S. to not feel like you are in U.S. Now if only the culture and attitudes on the mainland could catch up. Unfortunately, Aloha is still largely recognized erroneously as just being a quaint native way to say goodbye.

And now all you dear listeners out across there, it is time to cover those several thousand miles of peopleless expanse and rejoin you.