Back and forth I waver. Soonest is best, but, as I reflect on it, Hawaii is too much like the coastal islands of Chile which Pinochet found so conveniently close, yet not close....I'll call Phil, this or tomorrow morning. Looking up "wreck" in my online French/English dictionary, I found "naufrage," which of course I knew; but what I'd never heard of was "e'pave, personne de'sempare'e qui ne trouve plus sa place dans la socie'te': C'est une triste e'pave, presque un clochard."