Research Trip
Nov. 23rd, 2010 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreSo, this has been fun and exhausting, and I have 20 mosquito bites on my right arm, but I'm actually not here on vacation.
I keep setting my work in Hawaii or a fictional Polynesia, and I needed some specific location details for a novel I'm revising. Up until now, only a couple of key scenes were in Hilo (and, for logistics reasons, had to be there), but I lacked a sense of the place.
Kilauea dominates life in southeastern Hawaii in all kinds of subtle ways, and I feel the volcanoes are a much bigger day-to-day influence than on other islands I've visited.
The tour I went on today, the lady running it has a house over a lava tube. Just ponder that for a moment....
Anyhow, I'm exhausted and need to sleep....
I keep setting my work in Hawaii or a fictional Polynesia, and I needed some specific location details for a novel I'm revising. Up until now, only a couple of key scenes were in Hilo (and, for logistics reasons, had to be there), but I lacked a sense of the place.
Kilauea dominates life in southeastern Hawaii in all kinds of subtle ways, and I feel the volcanoes are a much bigger day-to-day influence than on other islands I've visited.
The tour I went on today, the lady running it has a house over a lava tube. Just ponder that for a moment....
Anyhow, I'm exhausted and need to sleep....