As soon as we were out of the Waikiki enclave, into the real Honolulu, I felt a lot more at home and comfortable. (Depressing, in a way, but there it is.) According to Scott, the official population of Honolulu is almost three million—just a hundred thousand or so less than Seattle's. That's the official figure, of course, in both cases. In Seattle, if you lump in the SINless—the homeless, the indigent, the transient, and the shadowy—the total rises to, depending on which estimate you believe, just short of four million to well over five and a quarter million.