Chapter 23

Exit Through Hawaii

My last meet-up with Team Social was in Hawaii in January 2012. I can't remember how we decided on Hawaii. Whatever rationalization we told ourselves was far from the truth. We simply all wanted to go to Hawaii. Other teams had been there, and most of our team was on the West Coast with Hugo's recent move to San Francisco. The story we told Matt, but more so to ourselves, was to switch priorities for locations each meet-up: we'd alternate between exotic (Athens, Lisbon, and now Hawaii) and practical (Portland, New York City). Hawaii, assuming we could rent a house for cheap lodging and cook many of our own meals, wasn't more expensive than any other trip for seven people located across the country. We rented a house ...

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