MAUI

AUGUST 2023

One day after I got home from Greece I left for Hawaii. The wildfire in Maui ripped through a small coastal town called Lahaina. I was there the next day and as always we started with sandwiches, fruit, and waters. The project evolved over time though. Initially we partnered with a local organization and community college that were also providing food and then after their participation ended or evolved, we went on to build our own kitchen. In addition to managing the purchasing and movement of all our product, I'm also responsible for our kitchen build outs. We found a campsite that was about 10 minutes from Lahaina, and we rented the whole facility, built our kitchen there, and lived there. In total we were there for about 6 weeks.

This is a good time to start talking about dish pits as well, as this was the first attempt at what would become an on-going passion project of mine to build the perfect dish pit. A dish pit is... a pit in which one does the dishes. For us, this means it has to be big because we have a lot of dishes to clean which are also large dishes. In Maui, I created the first iteration of what I envisioned. This was a platform that would collect the run off, and then the runoff would go into a macerator pump and into a gray water holding tank that would be pumped out everyday. This worked pretty well, but it was only the beginning of my dish-pit journey.

WCK sends out newsletters to it's followers and for their edition that covered this response, they did a short piece about me. The locals that we worked with also gave us our own luau at the end to thank us and told us we had life long surfing rights which was pretty cool.