Sea Legs

By the next a.m. I was feeling fairly good and was walking better. Had breakfast. Have you ever put your tray on a high table, while you were standing up? It's fun eating that way and watch your glass of juice, milk, or whatever, to keep it from spilling. Now the waves were smaller; lots of flying fish, which were fun to see. Slowly I had improved to get my "sea legs." We seemed to be going in a zig-zag pattern, probably to dissuade submarines, and why was that jolt last night? We never found out. After a few days we sighted land and then it became more evident that we were approaching the Hawaiian Islands. Finally, we arrived at Oahu and by now almost everyone had their sea legs, but it was a surprise when we got on shore; the land seemed to be moving! We laughed about that. We disembarked and were taken to a place named EWA (pronounced EV-ah); set up our tents; duties were assigned and we realized we were just a short distance from Pearl Harbor. My duty was with about 4 other guys, including the driver (from Texas); we drove up and around and came back to Honolulu to pick up the mail. Sounds easy, but the Texas driver got us in two accidents on the way! First he ran into someone and it was tricky staying on the flat bed of the truck where three of us were sitting down behind the cab; none of us was hurt; then he and a truck loaded with pineapples had a collision and the distraught guy told us to pick up the pineapples in the street and take them back with us. We did! Everyone back at base got some great pineapple that day.