Michael is a thoughtful, gracious, and knowledgeable host - and an excellent baker to boot. His home is a fanciful tropical garden in which boundaries between indoors and out tend pleasantly to blur, and it's situated very near the heart of Hilo. The room in which we stayed had something of the serenity of a monastery guest house, the perfect retreat at the end of a full day. He warns about the coqui frogs, but invasive though they be I actually found their vocalizations soothing as I drifted off to sleep.