(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)In four days of roaming Oahu in October, Times photographer Kent Nishimura and I found aloha spirit and corona worries as tightly entwined as the roots of a banyan tree. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)“The streets are so empty. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)In the lobby of the Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach hotel, desk clerks welcomed guests with free coffee. How did Hawaii move so fast from island time to “no loitering”? (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)In the century after the first Europeans reached the islands in 1778, islanders endured “practically a century of one epidemic after another killing native people off,” Kamakawiwoole Osorio said.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 24, 2020 13:52 UTC