What is history but story telling, it's called revisionist history for a reason.  Hawaii is a neat place, where one can have fun if one ignores the locals demands that everyone abide by their code of conduct.  Can't really understand why they think theirs is such a wonderful lifestyle, all they have to talk about is where they went to grad school and high school. Like I said, rather life in the present than in the past.  Maybe their present is so hideous that they have to escape into the past.